29-year old Sloan Churman was born deaf and struggled all her life to make sense of the auditory world around her.
She has been on hearing aid since age 2.
“But hearing aids only help so much,” she says, “I have gotten by this long in life by reading lips.”
All that changed, however, when she received an hearing implant approximately 8 weeks ago.
Here is the video of the implant being turned on:
Watching her experience is nothing short of powerful. It is touching, and gives us a sense of how it feels to experience a sense for the first time. And it reminds us: science is not just something that happens in a lab, but is something whose effects can be felt profoundly in the lives of people.
The implant Sloan received was the Esteem® made by Envoy Medical Corporation. An overview of how the implant works is given below:
