Teen girl hears for first time with brainstem implant
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Maggie Gleason, 14, who was born deaf, heard sound for the first time ever when hearing specialists at UH Cleveland Medical Center turned on an innovative electronic device called an auditory brainstem implant (ABI). The implantable device provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf. To learn more about our Audiology and Cochlear Implant Center: bit.ly/Cochlea...
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What an inspirational family! I'm happy that this technology has reached Maggie; may it help her continue to make great strides in her life. Bravo!
She is so cute :'C
SCIENCE!
this is so beautiful
She looks like a smart girl, and I'm sure she will be able to speak soon!
She is so pretty! Maggie looks like a girl from Japanese cartoon. Good luck to Maggie and her family! And huge "thank you" to a Hospital team. It's amazing what you are doing for patients like Maggie!
To those who was asking why was she be able to understand what other people is saying, here is my opinion: She simply don't understand what others are saying. She is able to recognize noise. Other must ask her in a way she understand. Such as one of the doctor was using hand gestures and together with her voice. Surely it is not hard to guest what the others are asking her in this situation tho.
Good on those who contributed to this research and hope this could improve lives of many others in the near future
now play her some Chopin - Fantaisie Impromptu
GUYS deaf people learn to read lips when deaf to communicate, THATS how she can understand them, just google it.
AWESOME. My little brother is in a similar situation and il never be able to talk to him. I wish you the best
WOOOO!! Go humans and science!!!! This is so amazing....just wow. /happy dance
Wow! Amazing science. Inspiring story.
Absolutely amazing!
now play her some miley cyrus
Today at 1 p.m., Dr. Gail Murray will be participating in the Science AMA Series for a discussion on Auditory Brainstem Implants. Dr. Murray is an audiologist and is part of the medical team working with Maggie to help her to hear using the ABI device. Join us! redd.it/2xs3po.
she is soooooo beautiful!!! this video made me so emotional aaagh
They are signing her the message. Also it's not hard to associate a simple sentence being said over and over again with it's sign language equivalent.
If she never heard a thing, how can she assimilate the sound "canyuhearme" with the written word "can you hear me" and understand it? One thing is speech, and another thing is text-symbol interpretation.
It's like playing a note to someone and recognising it as "c" or "do" or whatever.
Just my thoughts.
Because she can read lips and they probably also make sign language while talking.
oh... nice point! thanks!
Because she can probably read lips and she hears "can you hear me" at the same time. Pretty easy to understand what that person means.
Maggie can assimilate "canyouhearme" by using multiple communication cues including what she hears, lip-reading cues, and hand signs using American Sign Language that ask the question: Can you hear me?
suxcesss came here to find this answer
It's nice to see good news.
Wow that is so amazing.
Science...^_^
How does she understand what they're talking if she never heard any word before?
I'm not doubting, just curious.
Because the instinct for interrogatory speech is ingrained in all of us, since the species is well over a million years old. We've had hundreds of thousands of generations of good hearing, when hearing genes aren't turned on, that doesn't mean that the instinct goes away. It's the same way you know how to find the bathroom in the dark. You have a memory of your bedroom and/or hallway drawn in your head, but how did you know to have a memory? Instinct.
sounding out words and actually saying them are some things deaf people do. They also sometimes learn to read lips rather well because not everyone knows sign language. So its not hard to imagine how deaf people can understand words.
Lipreading
She looked at the people talking, def people learn pretty fast to read lips since not all humans know deaf language
Prior to the auditory programming session, UH Case Medical Center specialists trained Maggie to communicate what she would experience using picture cards paired with a vibrotactile device (a vibrator). Using the device, she was taught that slow vibration felt on the hand represented a “low pitch”, and that fast vibration felt on the hand represented a "high pitch." Maggie would point to the picture representing the vibration she felt. She was remarkably accurate with this training task. We used hand signs (ASL) and visual cards with written explanations and pictures to facilitate communication. We had visual cards representing concepts or information she needed to communicate to us, such as “same - same sound," or “same - different sound”; “loud" versus "soft" sound; “high pitch" versus "medium pitch" versus "low pitch" sound. Then we added the various sound stimuli and asked her to communicate back by pointing to the picture that best represented what she was hearing and how it sounded.
They should cover their mouths when they speak so they know for sure she can hear them and not just lip read
Nice.
Travel far. Where you go from here will set the standards set the expectations.
Thank god, its a miracle!
Awesomeness all around :)
How does she understand what they're saying?
I believe she has grown up used to reading their lips and their hand signs. If you notice when her dad called her name when she wasn't looking, she looked at his face to respond to where the sound was coming from and then had to read his lips to understand when he asked "can you hear me?" to which she replied "yes" in a nod. lol I hope this helps.
She can't, she understand the leanguage not the sounds so probably lips reading. Also his mother doing signals.
Lip Reading. The way she understood them before
i think she may be still lip reading
Sign language
How did she understand what they were saying if this was the first time she ever heard a sound?
My guess is from the movement of the lips. She's answering that she heard noise associated with the lip movement.
So Maggie does not yet understand words as we do. She currently communicates using a combination of American Sign Language (ASL) and lip-reading cues, now combined with auditory cues. She is working with a speech-language pathologist toward the goal of understanding words using the auditory cues. Think of it like learning a foreign language; the auditory sounds of the foreign words are being heard, but the brain must be trained how to make sense of the sounds. This will take time.
UniversityHospitals this is awesome!
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