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  • Jasmine is hearing words!

      19 March 2016

    We have some fantastic news. Jasmine has been training her brain to understand the sounds the cochlear implant makes. She has been so good, working almost every single day over the summer. Just as she was about to start school (she began last week) we were streaming a training programme into her deaf ear through the cochlear implant.

    Until then, she had been able to make out environmental sounds on the programme, such as horns beeping, or alarms sounding. This time her deaf ear heard its first word! 'Hotdog' she said proudly as tear rolled down my face. Followed quickly by repeating 'icecream' (you can see the pattern!)

    She now adds words every day and has more than a dozen already. Thank you so much again for your support. Our little girl is really going to be able to hear with both ears :-)

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  • Switched on!

      29 December 2015
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    First of all, may I say a huge thank you to all the generous people who have donated towards the cost of Jasmine's cochlear implant. Her audiologists are pleased with her progress and we know she is hearing through the implant, she happily wears it all day long and talks about her 'baby ear' that needs training up! It will be some time before we know how clear the speech is she can discern. But we know that with your help we have given her the best possible chance.

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