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Science

Innovation: Cochlear Implants

SDPB | By Cara Hetland

Published June 26, 2015 at 3:28 PM CDT

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Jessica J Messersmith,Ph.D. Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders department at USD. She discusses the department's Cochlear Implant program. Technological advances are helping more and more people with severe hearing loss. We also meet people whose lives have been changed through implants.