enlarged vestibular aqueduct

Progress Forward 

This newly graduated high school student who wears a cochlear implant is making plans to pay it forward.

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Unlocking the Key to My Problems With Balance

I am an associate professor at Oregon Health & Science University and became interested in the fields of hearing research, biomedical engineering, and neuroscience in part from my own hearing loss. I have had severe to profound hearing loss since early childhood, diagnosed at 2 ½ years old. Fitted with powerful hearing aids, I learned to speak and listen only with intensive speech therapy. I am the only person with a hearing loss in my family, so we always thought the cause was due to illness or possibly ototoxic drugs.

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