I was diagnosed as being partially deaf when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Up until then I had perfect, or at least very good, hearing. It was after a short illness that my parents started to notice that I wasn?t hearing as well as I did before. They took me to Stoke Mandeville hospital in Aylesbury where I got fitted with some bulky NHS supplied behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids. When I was...
Although my hearing loss doesn't define me, it has definitely affected me! I grew up with a bilateral hearing loss that was discovered when I was 4 years old. I wore a hearing aid and was mainstreamed in school. It's never been determined what caused my hearing loss, but I suspect it's genetic.
In 1993, I lost all the remaining hearing in my right ear (for unknown...
I went suddenly deaf in 1975 at age 4 of unexplained causes. I wore a hearing aid in my one "good" ear for just over 30 years, and then within the space of about a year year I lost all my remaining hearing. In November of 2007 I implanted my right ear and in August of 2008 I implanted my left ear. My speech comprehension scores have jumped from 8% before the implant to 98% after, so I...
