Cochlear Implants: People hearing for the first time!
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2012
- Just a little compilation of videos I've found about this beautiful phenomenon.
And yes, the music is a bit loud in the mix. I used a really limited freeware editor back when I created this video.
By the way, the music is: Nils Frahm - Corn.
My aunt had been deaf her whole life. Finally, a breakthrough in the medical field allow her to get an implant. When she got home she had to use the washroom. For the first time in her life she heard the toilet flush. The sound scared her at first and she screamed. Her mom wanted to know if she was alright, and my aunt replied she just heard the toilet flush for the first time in her life. She then stayed in the washroom flushing the toilet over and over again. The things we take for granted are special to those that have no experience with them.
Liar. She seemed pretty used to talking and hearing for a deaf person.
@@mikemondano3624I would take your comment as an insult, then I remembered you have a limited intelligence so let me set you straight. The woman in this video is NOT my aunt. My aunt is long dead now, but when she was alive, she got an implant that allowed her to hear for the first time. Her first experience with the toilet was legendary in my family.
I love the fact that of all sounds in the world, your aunt was fascinated by the sound of a toilet flush. That is so sweet. And you're right. We take sound for granted so much that something as simple as a household convenience was enough to make your aunt happy. Thanks for sharing.
The funny thing to me is this isn't the first time I've heard this happen to people. I think most people don't even consider warning them about certain sounds, like the sound of a toilet flushing...
Despite this being in the context of a toilet, it was still beautiful thing to read.
imagine having this job helpin people hear and making them this happy, the paycheck would only be a bonus.
mike r I feel the exact same way. I ve always wanted to work with deaf children. When the kids hear for the first time, my heart just melts!🤗
mike r you are totally right..
mike r true
mike r Ikr, I would definitely do this.
I'd do it for free if someone would let me.
My uncle when alive, always said when we were all laughing at the table, he couldn't join in as could not hear. I loved him very much and I felt such empathy for him. I felt sad every time we left his home and I would look out the back window of the car and wave until we got around the corner, often having tears in my eyes. He eventually came to live with my parents, it was so good to have him closer so we could see him all the time. I think being deaf can be one of the most isolating afflictions. He always seemed sad and alone in his world. The implant is such a miracle, I wish he had the opportunity to experience it during his lifetime. He passed in 1984. Pure emotion in this wonderful vid, so happy for all featured here, I hope it has brought them much happiness
I was a kid when this happened and I'm 64 now. I was around 13 to 15 years old at the time, so I figure this happened in the 1970's.
Now my aunt lived in Canada so the government paid for this out of our taxes. In the States, this may not have been covered through medical insurance at that time.
@@q09876543 Strangely even though an Australian invention and my family living in Australia, it was not talked about regarding my uncle, he was getting older by then, perhaps that is why?
@@56music64 I cannot answer that since I don't know. But my educated guess is maybe the idea of wearing something like that was not his cup of tea.
Your lovely story caught me completely off guard. Thank you for sharing that
Please don't worry, your uncle will be resurrected able to hear.
I love how the babies get scared at first but get so excited as soon as they realize they can hear their parents.
Repent to Jesus Christ
“Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.”
Colossians 4:2 NIV
K
They are scared because it's a loud soudden sound and they don't know if they should be afraid or not. As they see their parents and other people are smiling they calm down so their brain can beging to make sense of the new stimuli.
What they don't always tell parents is that they implant the better ear, and if it fails, or the body rejects the implant the person ends up with less hearing.
@@jesusislord6545 oh,god…..if I wanted a sermon I’d go to church!
Yes. This.....
@@DippyHippie You could have just ignored it and moved on.
As someone dealing with bad depression, i like to watch these videos once in a while to remind me to be grateful of what i have and not lose the value of life. Iv'e been fortunate to enjoy relatively good health so far and seeing others go through things like this breaks my heart. We all suffer in different ways, we just gotta stay strong.
Y’all hold on just a little while longer 😍🥰🤗🤗 one day at a time one foot in front of the other 💞💕💞
I hope you're having a good day ❤
As someone who has experienced “darkness beyond words” I want to tell you, I don’t know you personally, but from the bottom of my heart I want you to know that you MATTER and you are a totally unique creation and you are a totally priceless treasure with more value than you could EVER imagine! Things will get better for you, I promise. Just let God…
He loves you so incredibly much!
I am suffering from horrible grief and depression too. So badly I almost ended it today. Somehow the algorithm took me here and I am not sorry.
Amen keep fighting ❤️
Love love this so much. My 8 yr old son is deaf, but can hear with the help of his cochlear implants. I will never forget the morning he woke up a little over a year ago, with tears streaming down his face, saying mommy I can't hear, over and over. Being able to give him back the gift of hearing through his implants is priceless. He has EVA (Enlarged vestibular aqueducts) caused by Pendred Syndrom. From the time of his diagnosis to double Cochlear implant surgery, about 2 and a half years. He lost his hearing really fast. It was never a matter of if, but when he would go completely deaf. He has had his implants for a year now and what a difference it has made! He is a thriving and happy boy! God bless those who help people to hear again or for the first time.
Repent to Jesus Christ
“Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.”
Colossians 4:2 NIV
Jh
Your story made me tear up, because due to an autoimmune disorder that I share with my dad, I'm losing my hearing in one ear as well. We don't know when and how much it will be gone, but I'm 27 now and have lost roughly 30percent of my hearing since I first noticed it at ten. My dad, in his early sixties cannot hear at all from the same ear. Due to family problems, I only mentioned my hearing loss when my dad had a very scary accident caused by the disorder and we were asked to give our own medical histories to help with diagnosis. My dad refuses to get any sort of hearing aid (meh...) but the more I fail to understand what people say, the more I fantasize about being able to hear properly again. I wish you and your son the very best and I'm sorry you had to go through this.
Good luck at school. Hearing Kids love to bullying Deaf kids at public hearing schools.
Everyday and your boy will give up. Watch it and you chose it
@@specialbudgies4217 Exact same situation with me. I'm 55, my father is 92. His hearing great when he was young, but now he's deaf in one ear, and wears an expensive ear device. Even then he barely hears from that one. It's genetic because my grandfather lost his in his 70's. I hope this implant can help my father before he dies.
@@blazeroranger you speak in absolutes. My school was not that way. Deaf children were included with hearing children. Interpreters would stand in front of the class and sign while the teacher was talking. Many of us hearing kids were inspired to learn sign language. Friendships developed between differently abled kids. I’m sorry you had such a bad experience, but it is not like that everywhere.
From zero sign of any emotion to being utterly overcome with joy in one second. Amazing.
This is actually heartbreaking and I think it makes us to appreciate more what we have without problems.
Life in itself is a miracle.
Heartbreaking and heartwarming, both at the same time.
There, but for the Grace of God, go I.
Why is it that only girls, women and children are deaf but not men!
@@michaeljcarneyjr.6187
What?!
I've experienced this but only slightly. I had gradually been going deaf for years and eventually got some hearing aids after everyone kept telling me I should do. I didn't want to wear them at first as so prideful about needing hearing aids and getting old. Anyway one day I took my sister into the city to get her eyes tested etc. I couldn't go in with her so had a few hours to kill. I had put my hearing aids in for the first time properly. I dropped her at the hospital parked up and then walked into the city to get a coffee. What an amazing experience that was, suddenly I could hear the lorries and the buses above the normal muffled drone of the city. One of the best moments of my life and I just stood near a tube station watching people hurry to work as I enjoyed the sounds of the city for the first time ever possibly, as I most probably didn't appreciate them as a teenager or young adult. I cry nearly ever time I see these.
Oh! Dear,I'm glad you are now a happy soul. I wish I can afford the hearing aids too. They are so expensive here 😩
I am happy for you! ☺️
I am due to get hearing aids within the next year. It has been gradual loss for me too and now quite frustrating. Thank you for your story. 😊
How great it is for those at a mature age to finally get to hear the things most of us take for granted.
They will now get to enjoy for the first time the sound of birds singing, babies laughing, music playing while identifying all of the instruments used. Falling rain, ocean waves, the animals as they bark, whinny, bray, roar, howl.
Of course, their loved ones telling them: I love you.
Thanks to the people that can make this possible for these people.
We take SO much for granted. This is just both humbling and truly amazing! 😍
I don’t take my ability to hear for granted and I don’t think anyone else does either. I love being able to hear things and listen to music; it’s great and i think most people agree. We just can’t imagine what it’s like to not hear because most of us have never had that issue before.
I have a different version of the Cochlear implant, it is called the Osia 2. My hearing loss was gradual, over many years. Like many things, you tend to forget what you're missing. When mine was turned on for the first time, it was stunning and thrilling! Thank you to the engineers at the Cochlear company!
My older sister is deaf. She wears 2 hearing aids. My parents made sure that when she was growing up she will have a fantastic life growing up as they did with us. Her husband is also deaf and he was quite shocked the first time he met us all that we could sign as we can all hear. Fiona and David are their 2 kids who are now married themselves and have a kid each who can hear and sign also my sister and brother in law are so proud of their 2 granddaughters who can sign as they learned when they were toddler's. It still annoying to this day that when I am with my sister when we are out shopping if she doesn't hear them they are so bad mannered. As they think I am deaf to just because I can sign you can imagine the look on their face when I tell them I heard what you said. I just tell them they are awful and should be ashamed of themselves. Sometimes times I tell them to take a run up my humph. Which means f/off hear in GLASGOW Scotland.
Dearest Brenda, I can understand your frustration and disgust when individuals speak badly of people with disabilities. Humans are so incredibly unkind at times, insensitive to the needs of fellow human beings. In my experience, shaming has been an ineffective response to educating "the unaware". After the shock of being degraded, it is sometimes hard to deliver an appropriate response that will have a lasting effect. The ill-mannered person often denies their ignorance whuch is so apparent to us and to many others. Just a suggestion to try out, if you wish: The next time you have a similar encounter kindly ask, "What did you say? Can you repeat that, please?" Sales clerks and others may feel very foolish and may choose not to repeat. At their silence, you could say, " What you said wasn't that important to repeat?" That is an indirect way to let them know you heard and understood without taking on their nastiness. I'm sure you'll come up with other possible ideas to use when the situation presents itself again. You must be very proud of your family.💖❤️💖❤️💖❤️💖❤️
My high school in California now teaches three languages (other than English): Mandarin, Spanish and American sign language. When I went there in the dim past it was Latin and Spanish.
I remember when I got my first pair of glasses. I could actually see wrinkles in kids' clothes on the playground, and individual leaves on trees. I didn't cry, but it was very emotional and exciting.
It's like discovering a sense you never know you had. Something completely foreign, and complete beautiful, to what you are used to. It is literally an expansion of the mind that hits all at once, those lucky enough to receive the procedure.
This is people experiencing the world in a new way. No wonder they're so emotional. It's so lovely to see tears of joy. And the baby dropping the dummy as his mouth just falls open. But I think my favourite is the little boy who is dancing away with his headphones in his ears. How amazingly happy he looks 😍
I make it possible for top researchers and scientists be able to able to do this, makes my life more rewarding knowing these are some of the results.
Thank YOU 🙏🏽 What we should do is what you are doing in this World! Help instead of break!
How?
And healthcare workers.
Explain how it is YOU make this possible? Seems like you are trying to take all the credit here.
Basically I work in law. I win cases for top scientists and researchers from around the world to be able to perform these studies In the US best research hubs and tech companies. They would not be able to do this work without me legally speaking. Believe it or not Americans are not well versed and educated to compete in the global market alone. Thanks for your concern on my comment.
I always break up in tears at the reaction when these folks can finally hear. It’s so great to see them now able to regain this sense that keeps us in touch with others.
Wonderful to see the impact that the cochlear implant has had around the world. I worked with a beautiful woman called Doreen. She was born deaf. Her mother died within 6 months & her father could not work & care for her. Doreen was sent to an institution having been “classified” as deaf & dumb.! She lived there for many years until she was given domestic work by a religious congregation in Sydney. Doreen was one of the first, and certainly the oldest person in Australia to receive a cochlear implant. It made a huge difference to her life❤. Doreen was certainly not “dumb”. She was as smart as a tack! Gone to God now…may she rest in peace❤
That Cooper kid is so adorable :-) Such big, happy moments for these people to hear for the first time...their smiles bring me to tears - a great reminder to never take anything we are given, for granted.
It's amazing that the things we take for granted can make such a difference in someone else's life.
I'm so happy for them, I'm crying☺️.
Thank you for sharing!
Never take your senses for granted 😊
I will never forget my wife's reaction when she was fitted with hearing aids in each ear, she heard the wind outside blowing past the window her reaction was pure shock
Almost everyone cries tears of joy.
From the youngest baby to the oldest person.
Beautiful, thank you.
I'm a blessed man, two healthy and happy children and I had wet eyes from the jump.
I wish all of these kids and families happiness, health and prosperity.
I watch these to get a real feel good feeling❤️. Love seeing them hear, some for for the first time. Blessings to those who invented these and all the people who helped and are helping🙏🏻
What a touching video. Relates to us in the Family with my son, who was born deaf. Now with his Cochlea implant on both sides, he hears and speaks like any other kid. He is 5 yrs old and its a blessing to see him happy like all other children. 🙏
This video is so magnificent!!!! What beautiful babies, little children and young people. Love, love, love!!!!
It’s an amazing thing to have, being able to hear, taste, feel, think clearly, move freely, see well. Life is such a blessing that most of us take advantage of too much; especially when we aren’t missing these key elements of human senses. It’s wonderful to be able to witness these “first time” videos. God bless these people.
Finally some good love and compassion in this world. Cries of joy beat cries of sorrows every time
These are great videos of tremendous love and joy.
It reminds us all of how precious life is, and how our young children
show their happiness and joy of being able to hear.
There is nothing better to see and experience than this.
Heartwarming video. God Bless all those first time hearing people. I am so happy for everyone of you!!!!
So moving! I wept in joy for them.
*I'm way too sensitive for his video...but I needed to see it because I needed to release*
*some tears that have been building up. Beautiful heartwarming moments that I am*
*so thrilled that I experienced. TEARS!*
Яка радість від такого природнього дару…чути.Велике дякую тим людям .хто це зробив можливим!
Soooo adorable. I'm so grateful we have this technology today. It makes me think of people like Beethoven, who never got to hear their own music.
Beethoven was deaf?
@@dtyodeller yes he knew the music by the vibrations.
@@dtyodeller oops my bad. We were always told in music growing up that he was born deaf. But I looked in to it further and it appears that he could hear when he was young but went deaf later. But then that could also be "rewriting history" like they're doing for the West right now. We don't know what's true anymore 😞
Probably caused by the boxing of his ears by his father.
This is magic. I love it puts a smile on my face. Thanks to everyone behind this.. Your efforts are changing people lives. Thanks so much
This video just makes you feel so good! Inspiring and loving! It must be great to hear the people you love after it being a long time coming. And even greater to be the doctor who makes it possible. If I was the doctors, just the reactions alone would make me feel wealthy!
The Australian inventor of the Cochlear implant, Graeme Milbourne Clark is a genius. He must receive great joy to see so many of his fellow humans feel pure joy at hearing the world.
That woman at 1:48 nearly had me in tears.
THIS is why I wanted to help and began to learn sign language at such a young age. We all take things for granted sometimes and seeing the reactions of people being able to hear really puts things into perspective. Communication is so important.
Absolutely Beautiful. Haven’t been so emotional in a long time. Just goes to show what we can do as a people to help, not harm each other.
If you don't shed a tear watching these wonderful people, then...I just don't know but I sure did.
This video made me cry harder than any video I've seen on RUclips so far. My favorite was the baby who was just smiling so blissfully. SUCH A CUTIE😭♥️
So touched by each and every one of those responses. My emotions are experienced and empathy and compassion heightened. Thank you for that gift. I sometimes find it hard to express my emotions so this is healing for me.
I am sobbing watching this, we take so much for granted in this world. Couldn’t even imagine not being able to hear or for my babies to hear my voice. God bless these people who can make this happen they are angels ❤️
We take so many things for granted this really moved me to see the happy response for something I don't even think about
That is so beautiful Cooper is so happy to be hearing!That's what I've been waiting to see.Excitement w/o the fear!Bravo.
And the one with the pacifier is so cute.He's gonna break some 💕.
When I was working on the Intellectual Property for this device I thought how devastating it is to lose one’s hearing and how monumental it would be to receive the gift of hearing for the first time. Dr. Clarke was a truly ground breaking inventor.
That's just beautiful to see . What it must feel like to hear your family and your own voice , music and nature . We take our senses for granted , everyone should see this . Made me cry with joy 💖 🥰
Agreed.
Tears of joy, medicine at its best. Thank you to all the men and woman who make this possible.
Their first steps of a journey into sound. Very powerful and touching.
Это ангелы!!!!! Через них мы узнали как счастивы и свободны. СЛЫШИМ и это чудо доступное не всем
Such a beautiful thing to see these people hearing for the first time . I can’t get enough 🤗
Beautiful they are so sweet. Tears of joy! I love to see these reactions.
There is nothing more beautiful than the smile and happiness of a child.
A miracle & thank you for sharing their joy. We felt their joy & cried too!
My broken 💔 heart is now uplifted thru my tears of joy for this wonderful video.
You never understand the importance of little things god has given you until you watch people crying in the joy of experiencing it first time . This video made me cry !
Why did you drown them out with overly loud piano music??
Thank you to the doctors, technicians, therapists who chose this field for helping people.
Idk how I landed on this video, but so glad to see the joy, hope, and relief this brings to people.
Did not like the music.
Hearing is a gift that those of us who have it take for granted. Seeing what a tremendous gift it is to those who are new to it is humbling and very emotional.
Touching. Something we all should think about is how much one's world gets smaller and lonelier as they lose their hearing. The elderly need us to love them even more because they can't communicate as well as they age and their hearing degrades. That is why you see them sitting alone so much, but they still value some one just sitting there with them holding their hand for minutes on end. Make time, then take time to love them.
Not being able to hear music would, to me, be the worst thing. Thank God for these implants.
My husband lost his hearing in one ear due to a viral infection 9 years ago. It really affected his personality. He became quiet, non-responsive, not engaged, and more introverted. A hearing aid for one-sided hearing has helped but he still can't interact in crowds due to background noise. It really surprised me as to how much it affected his personality.
This video is so precious because the ability to hear is a gift. I listen to music every day & I'm so thankful.
That is so touching. To see them experience hearing for the first time. As I lose my hearing, I realize how precious it is.
I have never seen it this kind of peoples before.
Thanks a lot to your video.❤
Thanks for this video. It’s a paramount reminder of how much we take for granted. 🙏🏼
I’m so grateful to have had hearing all of my life. ❤️🙏❤️
What a lovely video and at the same time I found it very emotional seeing peoples reactions to being able to hear. The girl with the tattooed arm had me in tears when she was crying uncontrollably
Just beautiful!! It reminds us how we take hearing for granted. So grateful for my 👂 🙉...
A wonderful video, specially with the babies! 😊👍🏼💕👶
Never take anything for granted . What a beautiful video.
This is so very humbling as we just don’t realize the gift of sound.❤
I just want to cry with them..can you imagine your whole life not being able to hear, hear your mother's voice, your friends calling your name , the sound of music sounding like scratchy pattern noises or no sound at all. The emotions these people have. They're amazing.
The gifts and blessings we take for granted. What a priceless reminder
These are the BEST videos! 👏👏👏
Such a wonderful thing to see!
The music is very, very…..very well choose bro. It is so deep and so emotional. It is now on my playlist and each time I will listen to it, I will, remember this unique video for these unique moments. This music fits perfectly the importance of such moments where those human beeing, especially those childs, are discovering a new part of the reality, it is heartbreaking. The little girl crying so strong at 2:57 completly broke my heart. She made me cry very strong because I was thinking that maybe for her it was too difficult, maybe the sound was not good, and nobody can hear, and finally, maybe she would prefer to not hear. Who knows. Thank you for compiling this and for putting this so emotional track.
This is so awsome to see! I am happy for them.
It must be extremely gratifying to work in the field....what a great job!
I shed tears of joy every time I watch these videos
This made me cry. How beautiful for these people.
They are so touched and happy. Makes me cry watching them
It reduced my desires and now I feel like I have many things. I just took it lightly. Thanks for uploading the video 🙏👍
Just stunning, fantastic beautiful!!!soo touching, speechless 😀😀😀👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙏🏾
To watch someone experience something most of us take for granted, it's so emotional, it brings tears...
This was precious 💖 & it made my eyes spontaneously leak.
This is exactly how I reacted when I had my last chemotherapy treatment. Happy tears all round!
OMG Overwhelming, Great respects to the doctors , parents and all the team who have made this breakthrough technology and brought the joy of tears and happiness
wow, what a great job that must be! Truly changing lives for the better!
This is 1 of the Most Beautiful things to Witness even if only by Video I am Sobbing tears all over the screen 🙏🙏🙏
Omg how amazing just beautiful to watch made my eyes water pure emotion wow
it is so moving to see these kids smile. All except one seem to know immidiatly what a great step that is...
This makes me realise how much I take for granted the gift of the senses.
I could watch videos like this all day. 💗💗💗