29 year old hears for the 1st time!

[Alittleacorn]

I came across this and I just found it....

She's been deaf ever since birth and when she's given a hearing implant and hears herself the woman breaks down with happy tears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LsOo3jzkhYA

[AprilSeven]

OMG that was beautiful, I can't imagine how she must feel! The nurse indicated that was her husband filming, and he laughed. The BEST of technology!!!!

[Astro Forever]

Oh thanks for sharing, I agree it was cool!

At 29 it may be difficult for her to learn how to make sense of the sounds she's hearing, because her brain isn't trained for it. But still, what an amazing thing to experience!

I hope this is good enough for her to be able to appreciate music, but I'm not sure it can be.

[fafner]

I hope this is good enough for her to be able to appreciate music, but I'm not sure it can be.

It reminds me a fictious story, where a music professor was deaf since birth (not unlike Beethoven), but still able to teach people to sing correctly by touching their throat. One day he was able to hear for the first time thanks to technology, and was appaled by the "imperfection" of music: he had idealized how music was, not realizing that basically the sound is a chaotic wave.

[Bigdog]

[QUOTE=Astro Forever;173644]I hope this is good enough for her to be able to appreciate music, but I'm not sure it can be.

It reminds me a fictious story, where a music professor was deaf since birth (not unlike Beethoven), but still able to teach people to sing correctly by touching their throat. One day he was able to hear for the first time thanks to technology, and was appaled by the "imperfection" of music: he had idealized how music was, not realizing that basically the sound is a chaotic wave.[/QUOTE]

It has to be insane,but I'm glad she can hear better.

[Androids101]

Oh thanks for sharing, I agree it was cool!

At 29 it may be difficult for her to learn how to make sense of the sounds she's hearing, because her brain isn't trained for it. But still, what an amazing thing to experience!

I hope this is good enough for her to be able to appreciate music, but I'm not sure it can be.

I know, right? Hopefully she can now have a wonderful life now.

This was on the news. I don't know if hearing aid these days can be used to fully appreciate music, there was a documentary on the progress of hearing aids and it said that until nowadays they weren't enough to even understand basic speech. Its getting better every year, now sounds can be distinguished from others. Stuff heard via a hearing aid isn't that clear, and seem more...electronic

[Astro Forever]

To explain where I was coming from, I recall a story about people being blind from birth who were finally able to see for the first time as adults after advance in technology made surgery possible. That was many years ago so such things may not happen often anymore.

After being able to see for many months, these people still had to pause and count the angles to be able to recognize a triangle without touching it, because their brain wasn't trained to recognize shape. Experiments with cats who grew up in a testing environment with only horizontal lines showed they would then ignore vertical lines. I also heard hearing implants were more successful in children for similar reasons.

But, no matter what, it's such a great thing for her and she can only improve her skills. Even hearing simple things like rain (I love falling asleep while hearing the rain) must be so special!