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The criteria for cochlear implant differs for adults and children, little babies. But,
essentially it's a person who has either severe or profound hearing loss that cannot be helped
with the hearing aid. The hearing aid trial is important. Some people lose their hearing
all of the sudden and they have obviously not been wearing hearing aids their whole
life. Some people that wear hearing aids that have progressive hearing loss, and again,
those people it is sometimes a little harder for them to realize where they've gotten to
without the help of family friends. But, essentially what we’re looking at is
those people whose hearing loss is severe enough that a traditional hearing aid cannot
help them anymore. The first step would be really to contact either our program directly
or one of the ear, nose and throat doctors who support the program who can certainly
help with the whole process to make a fairly straightforward and easy.
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