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Brain Implant Helps Deaf Children Hear

July 28 — Our latest BWest series: Bioengineering the senses. We take a closer look at the tech driving the frontiers of medical science. Today, we meet Ava, a little girl who is learning to hear thanks to an Auditory Brainstem Implant that the FDA has just approved for children. Ava received her implant at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, where we checked in to see how she’s progressing.

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