1 year old hearing for the first time

These kind of videos get me every time.

These, and servicemen and women coming home to their kids and families.

Effn A....that's good stuff.

Freak....do everyo e you know a favor, stop breathing

Here’s another

I lost it when mom lost it. Thanks for sharing.

Why was the mom so sad?

Mom’s trying to make the video about her

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Spin off question: so, is deafness basically cured with these implants?

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Not even a little


This baby doesn't "hear" the way you or I do. She's experiencing a sensation that she had previously never experienced.

Cochlear implants are actually a huge problem because audiologists tell the parents that their kid is now fixed and they should never teach the kid sign language despite the fact the majority have no more hearing than they had before or only minor hearing improvements

So kids wind up having no language since they can't hear and haven't learned sign language. I personally know of 14 year old kids that cant read or write because their parents thought they "fixed" them with cochlear implants and ignored their child's lack of ability to communicate.


Not to mention the frequency of migraines recipients of implants experience.

But YouTube videos paint a different picture

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Spin off question: so, is deafness basically cured with these implants?

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The usefulness of the devices vary greatly from person to person. The kid in this video is just hearing "noise", eventually their brain may learn to distinguish differences in the noises and associate that with speech and other things going on around them. Rush Limbaugh is totally deaf, and relies on a cochlear implant. he once described listening to music. If it was music he had never heard before it was just a lot of muddled noises, but if it was a song he knew will it sounded somewhat like music because his brain was filling in the missing information from its memory of what the song sounded like. Adults that have gone deaf later in life can sometimes have better results because they have memories of what their voice and other things once sounded like.