Since we don't see the doctor, she may be signing while speaking. And/Or the young lady may have learned to read lips (learning certain mouth movements correspond with specific hand signs) just my guess.
ETA: Thank you for sharing this video. I love seeing tears of joy.
I have a cousin that went blind at around 17. Couldn't imagine. It made me wonder.... I asked if he still had dreams and if he could see in those dreams. He can. Then I wondered what someone who was born blind sees in there dreams. They never knew what anything from a beautiful women or man, to the best friend of a service dog that has been at their side actually looks like, so what does their brain create in their mind when dreaming. Deep stuff.
Those who cannot see with their physical eyes or hear may be using and relying on another sense that normally functioning people do not even notice that is there. Gut feelings work similar. We are more than our physical bodies Afterall. As far as this vid here, I agree with others, dr could be signing to her or she may have been able to hear when young. If you notice she did speak a few words as well in the typical slurred manner of speaking them for deaf people who cannot really hear themselves speaking clearly or others.
If you listen to here she can talk, although the words aren't as clear as a hearing persons. That means she was taught lip placement used to speak words. So she already knows what the words are from just reading lips.
This is what science can do when it works for the people...there is no limit to the wonderful things that can be achieved by innovative researchers and people who care about and love mankind. This is what medicine/science/biology, etc. should be all about...this is so miraculous and touching. This is a wonderful example of love which makes us forget just for a moment the people who deal in death and destruction. It is like night and day....great post and great comments. Thank you for posting...
People misunderstand what Deafness is. Being deaf means you can't understand typical speech without amplification. It doesn't mean you hear nothing. Think about people who are legally blind, but with glasses they can still drive.
Typically, deaf people hear some sounds. It varies based on the cause of the loss, but some hear certain sounds better than others. Often, even if they how to speak, the reason they'll choose to sign rather than speak is because they're embarrassed about their deaf tone- or they're concerned they won't be understood.
I understand the comments that have been posted, yet the idea twirls around in my mind, and I've seen other YouTube vids where folks have gotten an implant and begin crying when they can hear, that somehow, without ever hearing a word, they understand what is being said. Take for instance a person says "The Apple is Red". Would a deaf person who just received an implant understand what he/she was hearing? Or would it take a while for that person to put the sound "apple" into context of an actual apple? To me it looks like this young lady already knew what the word "tears" was and didn't have to ask anybody what was "tears". I hope ya'll understand what I'm trying to get across. This just fascinates me. Yea, maybe someone is off camera signing, yet I have a difficult time thinking that to be true. I think she could understand the words being told to her, yet in my mind she should not have the ability to put a spoken word together with an abstract idea. Odd how the mind works.
No they do not understand the words when they first get an implant. They learn the words as they hear. The cochlear implant takes many sessions to dial in just the right signal for a new user. As that process takes place the user's brain learns to interpret the signal. They do not hear like you and I based on sound waves. They hear based on the location of an electronic pulse in the cochlea.
People that have had hearing before going deaf can pick up pretty quickly once the brain has learned to interpret the signal. Even children that only heard for a short time before going deaf have an easier time learning to hear again. It can take longer for those that never had hearing.
So, if I have understood you, if a person was to stand behind her while she is wearing the implant for the first time and said "I love you" she would be able to hear a noise, but she would not understand what the noise was "saying"? Correct? After a few visits to the ear doctor and some fine tuning with the implants she would be able to understand when the person said "I love you".
Yes, that is basically how it works. But there is a lot of work for them to begin to understand words. The word must be repeated until the brain associates that particular signal to the word. The original model of the cochlear implants were called single channel because a single wire was inserted into the cochlea. Some people were able to learn to hear, and speak with those, but that was not the original intention of device. It was sold to allow the deaf to identify enviromental sounds like a car honking. The later versions of the implant like the Nucleus 22 had many more electrodes inserted into the cochlea, and thus stimulated a greater number of sites along it and helped the deaf get a greater range of stimuli. Many that could hear before they went deaf were able to very quickly become close to hearing again.
I know quite a bit about the implants because my youngest son was deaf from meningitis at four months old. He was the youngest implant recipient at the time at 2 years old. He could hear the environmental sounds the minute they hooked him up the first time. The doctors and audiologists were amazed at his first reaction. They had not expected it to be that drastic. His first was a single channel, and with a lot of spreech therapy he learned to speak with that unit. He received a multi-channel a few years later.
This is interesting. Your son, when he first heard an insect, like a bee, did he know that was a bee or just some sort of buzzing insect? Was he able to associate the buzzing noise with a bee or did he have to be taught the buzzing noise was a bee?
I really don't know if he would have even heard something that low. The settings have to be personalized because a lot of sounds are over whelming to a deaf person. I really doubt he hears the buzz of a bee. I'll have to ask him next time I see him.
Any number of reasons why she understands. My brother was born deaf, my parents found out when he was 2 months. Unfortunately, he was not a candidate for the implants (they wouldn't work), and at 67, he is OK with being deaf (NOT hearing impaired, he says). Back in the day, they did not teach sign.... he went to a school for the deaf...their reasoning was "you are going to be around hearing people, so you need to understand them". Now, I think they should have taught both sign and lip reading. His wife is also deaf ( from birth). Their wedding was a bit bizarre, deaf sitting on one side, hearing on the other. But what struck me at the time was, that in that moment, if you didn't know sign, the deagf guests would not, for the most part, try to communicate with you. Sad for me at the time, I wanted to get to know my brother's friends. It's OK now, but I have a hard time trying to red-pill my brother and SIL, they absolutely believe what MSM tell them, and believe that the government will take care of them. I send them a lot of threads from here, but don't know of they read them.
You are doing all you can to tell the truth to your brother. It's now up to him to reason and trust in you. I have a brother who is a minister and he rolls his eyes at my prepping foresight. He thinks if the SHTF he will trips into my house and expects me to feed and house him. He has another thing coming. Folks who don't have their eyes open will have a hard time in the future. Just keep red pulling your brother and love him.
Since we don't see the doctor, she may be signing while speaking. And/Or the young lady may have learned to read lips (learning certain mouth movements correspond with specific hand signs) just my guess.
ETA: Thank you for sharing this video. I love seeing tears of joy.
I have a cousin that went blind at around 17. Couldn't imagine. It made me wonder.... I asked if he still had dreams and if he could see in those dreams. He can. Then I wondered what someone who was born blind sees in there dreams. They never knew what anything from a beautiful women or man, to the best friend of a service dog that has been at their side actually looks like, so what does their brain create in their mind when dreaming. Deep stuff.
Those who cannot see with their physical eyes or hear may be using and relying on another sense that normally functioning people do not even notice that is there. Gut feelings work similar. We are more than our physical bodies Afterall. As far as this vid here, I agree with others, dr could be signing to her or she may have been able to hear when young. If you notice she did speak a few words as well in the typical slurred manner of speaking them for deaf people who cannot really hear themselves speaking clearly or others.
I've often wondered what language the deaf think in.
Dream in ASL.
🤯 it's crazy when you think about it
So happy for this young lady! Rush Limbaugh had cochlear implants as well.
If you listen to here she can talk, although the words aren't as clear as a hearing persons. That means she was taught lip placement used to speak words. So she already knows what the words are from just reading lips.
Are we assuming she couldn't hear previously?
This is what science can do when it works for the people...there is no limit to the wonderful things that can be achieved by innovative researchers and people who care about and love mankind. This is what medicine/science/biology, etc. should be all about...this is so miraculous and touching. This is a wonderful example of love which makes us forget just for a moment the people who deal in death and destruction. It is like night and day....great post and great comments. Thank you for posting...
Rush Limbaugh was one of the first patients to go through this procedure when it was still experimental.
People misunderstand what Deafness is. Being deaf means you can't understand typical speech without amplification. It doesn't mean you hear nothing. Think about people who are legally blind, but with glasses they can still drive.
Typically, deaf people hear some sounds. It varies based on the cause of the loss, but some hear certain sounds better than others. Often, even if they how to speak, the reason they'll choose to sign rather than speak is because they're embarrassed about their deaf tone- or they're concerned they won't be understood.
I understand the comments that have been posted, yet the idea twirls around in my mind, and I've seen other YouTube vids where folks have gotten an implant and begin crying when they can hear, that somehow, without ever hearing a word, they understand what is being said. Take for instance a person says "The Apple is Red". Would a deaf person who just received an implant understand what he/she was hearing? Or would it take a while for that person to put the sound "apple" into context of an actual apple? To me it looks like this young lady already knew what the word "tears" was and didn't have to ask anybody what was "tears". I hope ya'll understand what I'm trying to get across. This just fascinates me. Yea, maybe someone is off camera signing, yet I have a difficult time thinking that to be true. I think she could understand the words being told to her, yet in my mind she should not have the ability to put a spoken word together with an abstract idea. Odd how the mind works.
No they do not understand the words when they first get an implant. They learn the words as they hear. The cochlear implant takes many sessions to dial in just the right signal for a new user. As that process takes place the user's brain learns to interpret the signal. They do not hear like you and I based on sound waves. They hear based on the location of an electronic pulse in the cochlea.
People that have had hearing before going deaf can pick up pretty quickly once the brain has learned to interpret the signal. Even children that only heard for a short time before going deaf have an easier time learning to hear again. It can take longer for those that never had hearing.
So, if I have understood you, if a person was to stand behind her while she is wearing the implant for the first time and said "I love you" she would be able to hear a noise, but she would not understand what the noise was "saying"? Correct? After a few visits to the ear doctor and some fine tuning with the implants she would be able to understand when the person said "I love you".
Yes, that is basically how it works. But there is a lot of work for them to begin to understand words. The word must be repeated until the brain associates that particular signal to the word. The original model of the cochlear implants were called single channel because a single wire was inserted into the cochlea. Some people were able to learn to hear, and speak with those, but that was not the original intention of device. It was sold to allow the deaf to identify enviromental sounds like a car honking. The later versions of the implant like the Nucleus 22 had many more electrodes inserted into the cochlea, and thus stimulated a greater number of sites along it and helped the deaf get a greater range of stimuli. Many that could hear before they went deaf were able to very quickly become close to hearing again.
I know quite a bit about the implants because my youngest son was deaf from meningitis at four months old. He was the youngest implant recipient at the time at 2 years old. He could hear the environmental sounds the minute they hooked him up the first time. The doctors and audiologists were amazed at his first reaction. They had not expected it to be that drastic. His first was a single channel, and with a lot of spreech therapy he learned to speak with that unit. He received a multi-channel a few years later.
This is interesting. Your son, when he first heard an insect, like a bee, did he know that was a bee or just some sort of buzzing insect? Was he able to associate the buzzing noise with a bee or did he have to be taught the buzzing noise was a bee?
I really don't know if he would have even heard something that low. The settings have to be personalized because a lot of sounds are over whelming to a deaf person. I really doubt he hears the buzz of a bee. I'll have to ask him next time I see him.
lip reading while hearing.
Any number of reasons why she understands. My brother was born deaf, my parents found out when he was 2 months. Unfortunately, he was not a candidate for the implants (they wouldn't work), and at 67, he is OK with being deaf (NOT hearing impaired, he says). Back in the day, they did not teach sign.... he went to a school for the deaf...their reasoning was "you are going to be around hearing people, so you need to understand them". Now, I think they should have taught both sign and lip reading. His wife is also deaf ( from birth). Their wedding was a bit bizarre, deaf sitting on one side, hearing on the other. But what struck me at the time was, that in that moment, if you didn't know sign, the deagf guests would not, for the most part, try to communicate with you. Sad for me at the time, I wanted to get to know my brother's friends. It's OK now, but I have a hard time trying to red-pill my brother and SIL, they absolutely believe what MSM tell them, and believe that the government will take care of them. I send them a lot of threads from here, but don't know of they read them.
You are doing all you can to tell the truth to your brother. It's now up to him to reason and trust in you. I have a brother who is a minister and he rolls his eyes at my prepping foresight. He thinks if the SHTF he will trips into my house and expects me to feed and house him. He has another thing coming. Folks who don't have their eyes open will have a hard time in the future. Just keep red pulling your brother and love him.