Well we fitted a lady with a cochlear implant and she turned up the wick and
said she could hear better than before she went deaf, so she used to listen
to other people's conversations at distant tables!
Regards
Gil
G3LBS


>From: Robert Mauro <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "* EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information"
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: SCIENTIFIC FRONTIERS & CHRIS REEVE
>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:32:52 EST
>
>Did anyone see Scientific Frontiers last night (3/26) on PBS?  it had Chris
>Reeve and all these bio implants to get muscles to move.  The show
>contained
>nerve regeneration experiments& that Reeve commercial where he walks.
>
>Do u think these bio implant muscle stimulators r a good idea?  Why?  Why
>not?  Could the money be better spent on new wheelchairs, access housing?
>Will these implants make ramps and elevators and new wheelchair design take
>a
>back burner as we become "more normal"??  Any comments??
>
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