DEAF PEOPLE HEARING SOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME ! #5

[@DATo_DATonian]

It is amazing to consider the number of medical breakthroughs which have occurred in the last century. We tend to accept things as commonplace today which would have been considered literally miracles a hundred years ago.

[@erlock21]

I don't know why I watched this video,I'm a big hairy arsed Scotsman ,but I'm reduced to a bubbling wreck after I watch it I think it's because it's so wonderful,to see people react with pure joy to something I take for granted.I hope they hear beautiful things for the rest of their live

[@LCLand]

Cute 😊

[@shannonmanning6166]

I hear you. When I find myself taking things for granted I watch these videos, then I watch people seeing color for the first time. Talk about putting things into perspective.

[@jonash6070]

lol 🤣 amazing aint it

[@stuartrowena4371]

Yeaa but the thing is; big hair ass Scotsman is that we all love to see joy in another person's face dont we ! So wonderfully, wonderfully precious ! Looking forward to meeting you someday in the joyous, heaven eternal !!!

[@KCnLex]

Don't you know that big hairy arsed Scotsman have super sized hearts?

[@rickm3779]

I’m a 51 years old… how many others were like me and chocking back happy tears watching this video?

[@JohnLeeHooker-h6w]

I got you beat at 53 😁💛

[@nthgth]

Mid 30s...

[@ajaybhagwani8155]

I'ma51yearsold...howmanyotherswere

[@ajaybhagwani8155]

likemeandchockingdackhappytears

[@ajaybhagwani8155]

watchingthisvideo?

[@charleswyatt180]

I am deaf and I understand each and everyone of the people. It give me joy to see the people hearing for the first time. I lost my hearing in my 60's. I am now 81 with a cochlear implant. I get so much joy out of watching these people.

[@timothytomblin]

Is the hearing the same as when you were young? Are the sounds the same?

[@marcoantoniobrandaotada937]

@@timothytomblin I would like to know this too. Are the frequencies the same? The voices on old music records sound the same? Musical instruments, do they sound like before the hear loss?

[@peacheedandee]

The intelligence they have to match those new sounds they're hearing for the first time, to what they learned with sign language combined with reading lips.

[@lisacameron4698]

I was wondering how that worked considering they don't know what sound sounds like. Its pretty cool how they instantly understand

[@katev3744]

"I didn't know the lights make noise". So poetic.

[@nthgth]

Right? And so right lol. So many things in daily life make little sounds that a newly non-deaf person would pick up

[@jramrave3668]

Loved that ❤

[@Photo_doctor]

​@@nthgthI hope her enhanced sensitivity stays like that

[@lostfoundbaby]

​@@Photo_doctor it won't, if our brain didn't ignore so many things, especially sounds, we'd all go crazy and disappear as humans xD

[@misanthrophex]

@@Photo_doctor trust me, it's not so great. There are some of us who seem to hear everything, really hard to sleep...

[@fdtori]

"I didn't know the lights make noise"... wow, what a universe to experiment anew and how we the hearing take much for granted!

[@codranine6054]

I still remember seeing for the first time with corrected vision. Like I knew the trees had leaves but I didn’t know everyone could see them from across the street.

[@damonkennysr.4775]

I’m a 47 year old man and these videos always make me cry thank God for human ingenuity and thank you for your videos

[@zeusdarkgod7727]

I was saying the same thing! Thank God for giving us the gift of ingenuity.

[@Waverlyduli]

Seeing these people experience the gift of hearing and lighting up over something most of us take for granted is a profoundly beautiful moment to share.

[@kevinpittman2517]

it really is makes me wonder how many other simple pleasures and things we ignore until we no longer have them...like the scent of my first loves hair as we would wait in line on a date....with her being 5'2" it was always fresh and made me melt in her presence. a world without that simple experience would have changed my world.

[@autoscape1963]

It is. Made me regret some of my daily complaints.

[@a64738]

All these videos with "DEAF PEOPLE HEARING SOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME !" is only giving people false hope... The problem is that if you was born deaf your brain has not developed the ability to proses sound and because of that you can not get your hearing later in life either because your brain can not learn this later. YOU have to have had hearing early in life long enough for the brain to develop this ability for this to work,,.., ++

[@keithcastleberry3993]

I was thinking the same thing, but you said it more eloquently

[@DippyHippie]

@@a64738& you are wrong! It worked for me!Are you deaf? Have you tried it?

[@bobmoore875]

Short of delivering babies, these doctors have to have the most rewarding days at work. The patient reactions are truly priceless.

[@chrishenicke2052]

Sometimes we all need a small reminder of how blessed we really are. Very touching!

[@sidd_not_vicious2609]

yes we do and yes we are

[@andrewk5710]

I just spent the last 19 minutes crying tears of joy and pure emotion

[@DippyHippie]

It’s truly amazing! I received mine @ 65 yrs of age! Being in the world of silence is super lonely….& now? I love hearing!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@damienomen68]

My sister worked with a women decades ago that received one of the first bionic ears as they were referred to back then. C. This video fills me with so much joy & is wonderful.

[@petezereeeah]

I envy your sentimentality. I thought about how I'd never have to listen to anybody again. Wouldn't be that bad.

[@sambarreto9639]

The Little Baby Girl responding to the eyes and belly button was so on point. I am so happy for all who have been and taken part in these Beautiful Blessings.

[@red2977]

Even the babies react with giant smiles.

[@NancyCronk]

I could watch these all day. My father was deaf since the age of 12 due to a horrible accident, and his cochlear implant surgery did not work. It was in the 1980s when they were still experimental. It was heartbreaking for him, and for us, to have expectations raised so high, only to be dashed when it didn't work. He's been gone 12 years and I miss him. I love to watch these videos, and am so happy for the families who experience such joy. To see their faces light up is amazing. There are few things as beautiful as these moments when people are given the gift of hearing the people who love them.

[@amymahoney3513]

😢 what kinda accident was it that he lost his hearing? 😮

[@finster1968]

Sorry to hear this. But your father obviously raised a caring family regardless. I’m sure he was proud of that.

[@iriscollins7583]

Nobody is laughing. Such a shame that it doesn't work w

[@amymahoney3513]

@@ElSabio159 // 🤔😵‍💫 what lesson is that??

[@michael1]

Same with my uncle except the surgery was successful but a radio was playing in the cafe next door and the first thing he heard was Nickelback. He ripped out the implant.

[@robertdick7839]

We may not be able to make the blind see . But to make people hear is a miracle

[@moi-meme442]

Jesus did it

[@majkolsson7192]

The most gripping part for me is that they seem so happy and surprised by hearing their own voices. A thing all hearing people not only take for granted, but we can´t even imagine us without it.

[@68404]

Thank you Australia for this amazing gift to the world.

[@manukeller7151]

And NASA

[@ExploringTheWestCoast]

I will never forget the day my Son heard for the first time using hearing aids. He is now an amazing young man, a freshman at California School for the Deaf, Fremont. Parents, please don't worry if and when your kids decide to turn them off for a while, for a quiet break! In our house, we refer to his ability to turn off his hearing, as one of his Super Powers! Embrace ASL and enjoy the special relationship that you have with your child! 🤟

[@peacheedandee]

Thank you for sharing. I'm happy for him and y'all. As a person with severe ADHD, I understand when you say it's a super power. Because every time I hear a helicopter go by, I get severe anxiety....like I can't even continue my normal tasks when it happens.

[@LCLand]

I work at Ohlone College 😄 we are neighbors 💕

[@ronjones-6977]

I wish I had an off switch at times.

[@Ruslan-Night]

@@ronjones-6977 This has its advantages, but there are many more disadvantages. Especially when you hear a person for the first time - you hear a person but cannot understand him, as if he speaks a different language.

[@ronaldcole7415]

Probably the most heart warming thing I’ve ever had the fortune to watch.

[@micheltremblay-m2y]

better than watch news about wars for sure..!!!!

[@HowardRamsey]

Been losing hearing for the last 10 years, had aids fitted 2 days ago. Jeez the worlds a noisy place!

[@jamespasifull]

That's a really common misconception! What you think is loud, is actually 'normal' volume, but as your hearing deteriorated, you lost track of that 'normal', so when confronted with sounds that your ears can't track on their own, when using hearing aids to bring sound back to the normal you can't do naturally, makes you think it's unnaturally loud, when it isn't!! I've been trying to explain this exact phenomena to my older brother, who's just recently got two hearing aids. He's actually refusing to use them, because he thinks they're 'too loud', when they're not at all!! Btw, I do know what I'm talking about, I've had two aids for almost 20 years, so I went through this myself, waaay back when, but I soon realised I was only getting my 'normal' volume back, after years of straining to hear stuff!!

[@HowardRamsey]

@@jamespasifullLet's just say your brother and I see (or hear!) things differently (I've also dumped mine). What's 'normal' to you is no longer normal to us and vice versa. Could we adapt back? - sure - do we chose to?, NO. We are both comfortable with our decision and can change it tomorrow if we so wish. So why on earth do you have a problem?

[@jamespasifull]

@@HowardRamsey Woah there!! I don't have a problem at all, I think you grabbed the wrong end of the stick when you read my comment. I was just explaining exactly WHY your hearing aids sound 'too loud', but you seem to have taken offence at something I've discussed with a number of audiologists over the 20 years I've been using them. As a newbie, you actually KNOW very little about the workings of hearing aids, & as a voluntary non-user, you clearly decided that isolation is preferable, & that's your choice, BUT, my point still stands! What you think is 'too loud' IS the normal volume ordinary hearers can hear, but as you're used to hearing so much less, ANY increase is going to jar for a while, until your ears re-set themselves, with the help of hearing aids, back to that normal volume. I can't explain it any clearer, & that's all I was trying to do in the first place, when you decided to take offence, when it wasn't given in the first place! I hope you can get some use out of your hearing aids, if only to stay in the human race, because isolating yourself voluntarily seems like a self defeating option! 😁

[@UncleIrohs]

@@HowardRamsey ngl if I were you I’d have them so when you’re talking to people and you’re sick of them just shut em off

[@kinkukua]

My advice. keep away from lgbt+. They are noisy as hell

[@collawson]

A great contribution from our Australian scientists now spreading around the world…congratulations guys you’re brilliant

[@fl00d69]

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

[@bshadows187]

I did not know an Australian made this possible. Just another reason to add to my list of why aussies are amazing folks and the land down under is a beautiful place.

[@johnbrownscombe323]

Oi! Oi! Oi!

[@MarcoLongoMusic]

Can you imagine having a completely new sense suddenly unlocked? And then being able to experience music? That must be mindblowing

[@brentwalker8596]

A dormant part of the brain must fire up. It's really fascinating to watch.

[@DogSerious]

Kids get the same experience when they enter in a cheat code, but this is so much more profound!

[@Sugarsail1]

Yes, it happens when your pineal gland starts to work.

[@tonysansom]

It must be like discovering telepathy!

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

That must be fantastic. `Like going to heaven and seeing colours one could not have previously imagined, but even better.

[@aaron.debattista]

The scientists responsible for this are heroes of mankind.

[@YoDempsey]

I would like to give a big hug to each and every one of these people. They ALL made me want to cry with joy.

[@KCnLex]

Thank you. I have multiple health issues and today has been a very bad day. These videos made me so happy and also made me realize that today I would be better served by realizing there are things which could be worse and I should work towards gratefulness.

[@stevemelancon6207]

Amen.

[@jamesa.rodriguez8598]

😂 I'm happy for all these. I'm 64 with hearing loss, and thank God for technology and technicians who have helped those without hearing. God bless all.

[@thomaskuhlmann1756]

Nur wenige Videos haben mich so berührt.

[@tommy62z]

Best reaction, makes you cry. The human spirit is indomitable

[@ButterflyDawn1424]

I cried. That little baby boy… reminds me of my son who passed. He was almost 3 months old. Although he, Dante, wasn’t deaf, he had an autoimmune disorder passed by me, the father. 😢 Now he is safe with God, fully healed! God bless these doctors and scientists who actually HELP us!

[@sana.a373]

Aww so sorry for your loss 😭🥺

[@sparra3819]

❤

[@Confused_Philosopher]

Absolutely heartwarming to see how surprised and happy these people are to hear for the first time or have hearing restored. Life changing experience.

[@Brausepaulful]

I haven`t been deaf in all my life and I hope, it won´t happen to me in the rest of my life. I watched these different scenes in Silvester evening 2023 and to see the reactions of all these people and children is so overwhelming and heartwarming.... I can´t describe it in words. I am very thankful to all these persons who shared this wonderful moment with us. Thanks a lot! It has been one of the moments of the year in 2023!

[@Saighdiuir]

How unbelievably rewarding that must be to see patients light up like that!

[@bajamcguide]

Love this. This is were society needs to put its energy. Helping others. God bless the doctors and all the people making this happen.

[@Kranebitter81]

Some of the most rewarding viewing on the net, well done to everyone involved.

[@RenR70]

I would love to see these people reaction to hearing great music for the first time.

[@alainrodrigue4022]

These kids brings me tears of joy. Beautiful ! 💖

[@dannylaw7367]

Just heartbreakingly beautiful.

[@irishwinds8316]

This just goes to show how much we take for granted. So glad they all have unlocked a new level of life

[@bobbydigital8056]

Holy crap, I dont think I've ever fought so hard to hold back tears. So happy for all of them!!!

[@gordonbitting1659]

We who can hear must be so thankful

[@williamneal7210]

I used to watch these ten years or so ago before shipping off to Afghanistan and then Iraq. I just "rediscovered" these videos and remember now how totally magical and healing they are. Thanks for posting.

[@itsbrilliant-bt8sv]

So beautiful. Just imagine how their caring parents must feel?

[@mack8488]

The most precious gift they can give their child and seeing them happy as a reward? No i cannot imagine😉

[@frankconway9184]

I was a front of house soundman for concerts. The power of sound is part of our souls. This is the reality of a person having to experience this . Thank you. God bless all the people who have a disability. Love and help them. ❤

[@417Theory]

My tubes completely plugged up once. I lost hearing in both ears. Never been through anything so terrifying. After a month it started to come back but was still kinda tinny and underwater like. Will never take the gift of hearing for granted again

[@cherylkruisheer3365]

As I’m watching this miracle, there’s an add for some heart choice treatment. What that made me realize is no matter the absolute joy and blessing of hearing your most cherished loved ones, when you go out and hear the beauty of Gods earth. The silence of nature, the songs of birds, the wind sighing through the leaves, so many more that we with hearing don’t pay attention to enough. Thank all of you that bring this blessing to them.

[@deepsleep7822]

It is so wonderful see people experience something that some of us take for granted.

[@idahosixgun5601]

This is about the most wholesome thing you could possibly watch. It really breaks down the most basic elements of innocence. Absolutely awesome!

[@davidhaynes3126]

I really enjoy the delight. Brings tears to my eyes. Always I want to remember to be grateful, for I have had losses and found things too.

[@tuqseymolean3647]

Thank you to those who give hope to the deaf. What a wonderful gift.

[@Daindrais]

I love this. Having lost the hearing in my left ear years ago, I am deeply moved watching these moments of restoration. The joy on the faces of these people is so lovely. Maybe some day...

[@Beartrap70]

Boy do I know (for real) what's it like to hear for the first time - So I know how nice it feels for all of them ☺️💖 My hearing lost wasn't that severe, I just needed to have tubes put in for awhile And I spoke my first words at 4yrs old (from new born to 4yrs old I never heard a sound) And when I Said Hi dad for the first time he started crying hugged me and wouldn't let go Oh and I haven't stopped talking since then 😃

[@JustPassingThrough-222]

I am losing my hearing, and I feel for each one of these people. I remember the first time I got glasses and could actually see the leaves on the tree I was standing underneath. It was astounding. I wonder if hearing is the same. Thanks for sharing these moments.

[@bernie8987]

The amount of love shown is absolutely beautiful for all these people

[@GreenGrapesMilk]

I'm a crying mess after watching this. Watching them be overcome with gratitude and delight is breathtaking, and from something so many take for granted. Now they get to discover a whole new part of their lives now.

[@joelong7448]

You can't help but smile this whole video. Thanks for sharing Kindness.

[@Lincoln1862]

"and the lights make noise. I didn't know that the lights make noise" How we take things for granted, which are missing for so many in this world.

[@Strap1205]

These are the moments, that show us how we normally take things for granted, but they are definitely NOT. We should cherish all that we get and it´s such a beautiful gift to hear. I am so glad for each one of them that they can share this gift with us again!

[@JamesMcKenna-r6r]

I haven't cried like this in 30 years...God bless these doctors

[@benduckx9367]

I don't have a clue who or how the "cochlear" implant was founded, however, it is, without a doubt, a life-changing device and is a Godsend for thousands of children and adults. Very emotional video.

[@catmeow11111]

It's an Australian invention.

[@dhanyrafael]

God bless them. @@catmeow11111

[@anthony64632]

Some deaf people can hear with cochlear implant , other deaf people can not hear with cochlear implant.

[@Scoobystyle]

OMG, I am 50, I have been completely deaf in my left ear since birth! I cannot express how bad I want to hear out of both ears! I was told it was nerve deafness and could not be fixed. I would have saved every extra penny, even skipped meals to be able to hear out of both ears. I can't track sounds, I can't hardly find my phone by ringing it. I have to just accept it, but it felt good to get excited for these beautiful people. Kinda feeling their pain made the joy bring me to tears multiple times!

[@dOnNoMeNaL1]

Something we take for granted becomes a beautiful gift for these individuals. Brings a smile to my face and a tear to my eye.

[@Knowallwithmyphone]

There aren't words for how much joy this brings me!!!

[@ChamferedCorner]

I love coming to these videos when I’m feeling down. The smiles make me cry happy tears. ❤

[@ritchiedube]

I would love to see these people hear music for the first time. This is crazy cool to watch.

[@topgunaudio7983]

I have had the privilege of fitting cochler implants and thousands of hearing aids to all ages over many years and it never gets old seeing these reactions. With implants what is not realised is we stimulate very few frequencies so the sound is very artificial and metallic but compared to no coherent sound the change is still amazing and we must never under estimate the benefit it brings.

[@lulalelilo]

Yeah. I do have a cochlear implant and I've heard real sound before. Normal hearing is like having a full oled TV, cochlear implant is like black and white tv. It sure brings a lot, but thats no way near close to what hearing is.

[@JT_771]

@@lulalelilo Thank you for a comparison like that. Helps A LOT to understand the differences, limitations, etc Thanks!!

[@wesleydeer889]

Have they improved much in the last 10 years? 5 years? Or have they hit pretty much the limit in frequency range? What’s typically the lowest frequency they can hear?

[@lulalelilo]

Good question@@wesleydeer889 . My cochear implant is now 24 year old. Got it when i was 15 and so far as I know, there are still 22 to 25 electrodes deep in the cochlea for the new ones nowadays. Number is pretty much the same over the years. What actually improved is the way you do the implant because you know where to precisely put it on the hearing nerve - it improves the quality of sound actually, which we didn't know pretty well 25 years ago. The sound processing (external part) also improved a lot (better mics, better signal processing, better algorithms to process the sound, so you can focus on speech, music, etc). I will probably get a new cochlear implant (lasting almost 25 years is already a feat, considering mine is designed to last only 10 years...) so I can't answer more precisely until i've experienced it by myself.

[@lulalelilo]

Frequency range is usually the same as you mortals gifted with normal sound, but it's not as "fine grain" vs normal audition and the sound renders it more "metallic" (ie black&white vs oled tv color) but I got the two last high tone freq disabled because it was giving me severe headaches (we still dont know why it happens) and i know i'm not the only one with some frequencies disabled. And yes, I've been among the first to receive a cochlear implant, considering the first ones were delivered 30 year ago, at the time I had one, there were only 200 people in the world that had it, 10 per year in my country (compared to today with almost 1 mil people through the world...)

[@BenTheRaven]

Man, I needed that cry. The universe works in beautiful ways!

[@triarb5790]

Thankyou Professor Graeme Clark AC. A GREAT Australian. Inventor of the Cochlear Implant. Cochlear is a truly incredible Australian export to the world.

[@tonis5669]

crying so much over this.. perception is so emotional, really wires us to the world.. what a blessing to be alive in so many ways..

[@TK-zc5wu]

This made me cry I became deaf in my twenties after birth of my twins ,I have hard time hearing with aids clarity etc but the little ones hearing sound for first time! hope hearing aids or real ear measurements improve worldwide for these little ones

[@amymahoney3513]

What caused you to become deaf? Was it an ear infection after your children were born?? 😮

[@TK-zc5wu]

No I had a epidural and have heard that could have caused it , thanks@@amymahoney3513

[@wizzardofpaws2420]

I thank GOD he put me in this day and age to see this kind of thing. I worked with a girl with severe stutter. She would freeze on words and couldn't get them out. Got a cochlear implant and what a miracle! She could speak normally!!

[@thoughtank1019]

One thing I notice about deaf people, is that they all have this innocence about them, like the ability not to hear kept them from being contaminated by society.

[@Gusttafa]

thats just illusion. we are all trash, deaf people included

[@Cris-rv4kv]

@thoughtank1019 Beautiful comment

[@Grace-b2z6p]

@Gusttafa Dont say we are all trash.. What about the people who made these kind individuals able to hear in the first place?

[@OsvaldoAguirre-l3i]

Exactly right!!!

[@JasonChavez-h8v]

That's true. My gf is deaf. She was born deaf and has the same innocence thing also

[@PaulJamandSolo]

Truly Amazing! Watching this brings joy! So precious!

[@zingbangpow]

It's wild that deaf people have accents. Precious.

[@hristo_yonkov]

Not everyone are 100% deaf, for example my aunt are 75% deaf and his husband 100%

[@MicRau]

And how do you explain that deaf people can articulate perfectly by their mouth? ​@@hristo_yonkov

[@mjpaze3434]

Oh My God!!! Thank You So Very Much For Doing This!!! There Are No Words That Can Describe How Beautiful!!!

[@robertbraun7155]

OMG.. This brought me to serious tears with every story!!. I have cancer and neuropathy and hearing loss wasn't too bad at first. Im 50 now and my hearing seems to be decreasing exponentially. My sight is now beginning to shows signs of degradation.. As a man that lived his life as an artist and then tattoo artist, and also a musician that has played guitar since 16 and eventually in a band for 8 years.. My neuropathy has caused me to lose feeling in my feet and lower legs first and now it is in my hands. My fingertips and my palms no have no feeling. Now it has progressed into now my hearing and eventually my sight.. To be someone that all my joy and my career was based on having those senses and abilities and to now slowly have them taken away is something i cannot even begin to explain.. The turmoil I feel within myself. My fiancée a year ago, told me she didn't sign up for hospice and packed and left.. Feeling that your own body is against you, and now my support has left.. Its an incredibly lonely and dismal road.. Seeing these people be given back at least one gift god has given them is incredibly emotional for me.. So sorry. Not trying to make it about me.. I am too old with too many other medical issues to be a candidate for something like this.. Feel I have been robbed and it was no fault of my own.. God bless everyone that is able to have those senses again..

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

Thank you for this. Bringing smiles to people is truly noble work.

[@darthtrabia]

If you’re a human and this doesn’t tear you up. I don’t like you lol. This is awesome.

[@judgeovyoursoulvo8685]

The smiles somehow make these beautiful people even more beautiful.

[@Rocket_Man232]

Prior to the late 20th century such marvelous technological advances were totally unheard of.

[@firemonkey1015]

Underrated pun

[@jamesbarker9895]

I was having a rough day until I saw this. This makes everything better. Pure goodness

[@TheRockIslandRock]

Don’t know how I ended up here but grateful I did.

[@PatriciaS-t1x]

Now sweet little Sammy can be completely with her family. I love how her little brother comes over to comfort her too. Lovely family.♥️💕

[@tevalia]

I was born hard of hearing from birth, and it's been a struggle. and very happy to see technology help these people

[@icktzar]

Ohhh, impossible not to cry. I have cry like a baby... Such a miracle!!! I'm so, so happy for them. Thanks very much for all of those who make happened this miracle all over the world!!! It's God's work. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@mikemorenilla7444]

You mean its science, not a miracle. The miracle would be god not making them deaf in the first place.

[@921drock]

I remember my daughter hearing the wind for the first time. She was laughing it made me cry.

[@averagechadlegionary5824]

That little baby smiling when hearing his mom’s voice for the first time. Very adorable!

[@paoloviti6156]

My loss of hearing is nothing compared to them as I use hearing aids on both ears so it's not too bad but I deeply feel for them to able hear again. I was really moved to see their joy with a couple of tears 😢! Really wish them happiness 😊 ❤

[@mattdaugherty359]

This is one of the most heart warming things I've ever seen. We take hearing for granted

[@titusrider7948]

This is awesome! What a phenomenal use of technology and research to make this happen. You've positively helped so many lives ❤

[@captain_context9991]

A bit weird, however... If these girls never heard before. Then how do they know what people are saying. How can they SPEAK. They just figured it out on the first try?

[@kylejohnson7053]

How unbelievably heartwarming. Thank you to everyone who makes this possible.

[@davidventuramartin4007]

Estos vídeos son muy emocionantes y deberían hacernos valorar cosas que damos por sentadas y no valoramos como simplemente oír ...ver a personas de todas las edades romper a llorar de emoción por oír es impresionante

[@shabirvalli8604]

I00% correct!

[@RoquetSynce]

Wow. Try not to cry watching this. Beautiful.

[@Kathy-ec2nd]

I always wonder how they can understand what is being said and how they can speak normally for the most part for the first time. Especially for those who have been deaf their whole life. It's quite amazing.

[@steph.h.]

understanding must be linked to reading lips and patterns, then reproducing those patterns. But I agree, that's a amazing process to witness

[@jakerazmataz852]

If you notice, most of them lost their hearing. If you are deaf from birth you can't speak. You can make sounds but not words. I worked with a guy who could only make sounds. I feel so bad now, not being friendlier to him, not that I was unfriendly, but imagine not be able to just communicate with people. How lonely that must be.

[@jorgrexin8296]

​@@jakerazmataz852it make sense what you said, but the headline ist that they hear sound for the first time and that is imposible🤷🏽‍♂️

[@simmorg290]

@@jakerazmataz852 Some people who are deaf from birth can speak if they're taught how to but they all speak in the same strange way. The teacher will have them touch their throats so they can feel the vibrations. I remember seeing two deaf people where one could read lips and speak in this strange but understandable way and the other couldn't read lips and could only use sign language. So the first could live in the hearing world okay but the second one could only communicate with people who knew sign language.

[@Psyché14-f]

Hello 🙋🏻‍♂️ I am deaf and I would like to help you solve your 'riddle'. First, the title of the video is wrong; the people who react by speaking when activating the cochlear implant are because they previously heard using classic hearing aids and developed oral communication well. Now, when a person who was born with a hearing loss of more than 85% and who did not have speech therapy is implanted, he or she will emit "strange" sounds, not words. For this case of a patient, activating an implant will involve hearing through first time.😊 Although at first it is very strange to listen, everything sounds very robotic, which is why therapy is required. Sorry for the translation, I don't speak English very well. Regards.

[@gromer-v8s]

I cried throughout. Seeing the happiness of everyone was awesome.

[@ComdrStew]

I was deaf from 12-14 and after seven operations I was able to get my hearing back.

[@jennifermichelleswanson3797]

For ANYONE to hear for the first time after years of not hearing anything, brings joy and happiness to my heart. For someone that has heard nothing their whole life to hear someone say hello to them or to just talk to them is a break though in medical science. To not have one of your five senses and then to have it again or for the first time is amazing. Videos like these bring tears of happiness to me and I'm sure many others as well.

[@anthony64632]

Not every deaf people can benefit from cohclear implant

[@rachelanderson9091]

My friend was completely deaf and unable to speak -- what a difference this could have made to her when young. Sadly, she died without hearing any sound. She was the happiest person I have ever met !

[@s.scottsdale1839]

Our lives should be enjoyed by hearing our loved ones and everything that makes life a joy...and in stereo!

[@SERGIOBS-1960]

Como deve ser emocionante poder ouvir pela primeira vez. Viva a tecnologia e profissionais dedicados em restabelecer algo tão precioso em nossas vidas.