What are the advantages of the bionic ear?
Children with normal hearing ability learn to speak in their family environment without the need for special help. Patients with severe or significant hearing impediments cannot benefit from even the most powerful of hearing aids. Deaf children unable to hear others speaking will not be able to develop language and special communication skills. The cochlear implant provides such children the opportunity to differentiate the sounds in their environment, develop language skills, seek employment and manage to stand on their own feet. How can a deaf person hear with the bionic ear? The tympanic membrane (eardrum) and the auditory ossicles in the middle ear transmit sound waves into the inner ear in the form of mechanical energy. The actual sense of hearing occurs in the inner ear, or otherwise known as the cochlea. The sound signal reaching this part of the ear is transformed into electrical signals that travel along the hearing nerve towards the hearing centre of the brain by means of ver
