Meet some of our patients

Amy

Amy has been completely deaf since birth but at the age of three and a half she listens and talks almost as if there was nothing wrong. A cochlear implant inserted by surgeons at GOSH, enables her to 'hear' by converting sounds into electrical signals that stimulate her auditory nerve. That means her language skills are developing as normal.

"I forget she’s deaf," says her mother Jill. "She’s always telling me things and singing. It's the nearest thing to a miracle that I’ll ever see."

More than 170 children have been given cochlear implants at GOSH since the programme began in 1992.

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