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Article: The sound of water.
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- The Exceptional Parent
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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It was a ritual Jillian had witnessed a thousand times before: Victor, the family's black Labrador, bounding into the kitchen after being outside and heading straight for his water bowl to quench his thirst. However, this time was different. Jillian didn't see him enter the house. Instead, she heard him. This may seem unremarkable until you consider that Jillian is deaf. The first sound she heard after receiving a cochlear implant was her dog Victor drinking water.
A cochlear implant is an electronic listening device that is surgically implanted in the cochlea (i.e., inner ear) of a child or adult with a profound hearing loss in ...