What makes us human? Is it our capacity to contemplate and question our existence? To ask complex questions like, e.g., „do tears freeze in rain?” – and to seek complex answers? Or our capacity to comprehend our own mortality, to instantly recognize that someday each and everyone will perish? If your answer is all of…
The cochlear implant doesn’t hold it’s recipient from tasting small pleasures of life, like going to the beach, sunsoaking or swimming. On the contrary. Sofia is no exception to the rule. She just has to be a little careful.
The daily life of a girl with a cohlear implant oscillates between duties and fun-and-play time. But no matter what, she seeks shelter and protection.
Sofia was born with a profound hearing loss; with the help of a special device – the cochlear implant – she can hear and learn to speak, living an [almost] normal life. CI’s have an external part who looks like an ordinary hearing aid (in fact a sophisticated computer) but also an implantable one, requiring…
