Sensible Erection | Watch as a deaf woman hears her voice for the first time

Saturday, 1 October 2011

Watch as a deaf woman hears her voice for the first time

quote [ I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time ]

I am wondering if this is a hoax. I am sure enunciation techniques have improved over the years for the hearing impaired however it seems to me she speaks too well.
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I am probably wrong but I would like to hear (no pun intended) from those who would know more about this than I would.

[by drd69@11:38pmGMT] [+10 Repost]

Comments

Mr. Langosta said @ 11:42pm GMT on 1st Oct
This is the third time in as many days I've seen this on SE.

Spleen23 said @ 12:18am GMT on 2nd Oct
Which is probally a good indication it deserves its own post.

Chop-Logik said @ 12:25am GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:1 Insightful]
Time Between Thing Being Amusing, Extremely Irritating Down To 4 Minutes

^{PROVIDENCE, RI—According to a study released this week by Brown University's Department of Modern Culture and Media, it now takes only four minutes for a new cultural touchstone to transform from an amusing novelty into an intensely annoying thing people never want to see or hear again.}

sacrelicious said @ 12:32am GMT on 2nd Oct
four minutes into reading that article I began to find it extremely irritating.

Chop-Logik said @ 12:36am GMT on 2nd Oct
3 words into reading this sentence I yadda yadda yadda

sacrelicious said @ 12:41am GMT on 2nd Oct
yadda yadda, etc.

arrowhen said @ 12:48am GMT on 2nd Oct

b said @ 4:10am GMT on 2nd Oct
Fuck you.

brat#3 said @ 5:53am GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:1 Funny]
Yeah but four minutes in, yadda yadda yadda... and that's really irritating.

sherlock said @ 12:46am GMT on 2nd Oct
That's exactly what someone said last time this Onion article was linked. Needless to say I found your comment extremely irritating.

tickaz said @ 3:28am GMT on 2nd Oct
+10 repost?

Starjump said @ 11:56pm GMT on 1st Oct [Score:-1]
lame, if its posted in the comments of other posts then posted as a main, should be considered a repost still...

loomspace said @ 2:55am GMT on 2nd Oct
Why? To e-punish the poster for sharing with those of us who don't read through on everything posted?

Vampire_X said @ 12:37pm GMT on 2nd Oct
gods know SE gets enough posts as it is...

Chop-Logik said @ 12:17am GMT on 2nd Oct
She's had a hearing aid since she was 2, she says.

^{"My whole life I've been complimented on how well I speak. I don't really have an answer for you other than I have always had a passion for reading, grammar, and English. My hearing loss was/is considered severe to profound. I've worked very hard to be able to interact and blend in....}

sanepride said @ 12:25am GMT on 2nd Oct
When she scrunched up her face and covered her mouth I totally thought she was gonna puke.

sherlock said @ 12:47am GMT on 2nd Oct
I've seen this video posted in comments at least 3 times. But I don't care.

bbaker2 said @ 1:08am GMT on 2nd Oct
I've seen this comment posted in this post three times. :-)

cache22 said @ 12:43am GMT on 3rd Oct
But do you care?

zarathustra said @ 1:13am GMT on 2nd Oct
I see that she had a hearing aid. If she had really been deaf and suddenly been able to hear would she have been able to make sense of speech or would she have to learn to interpret it? Wouldn't the question "is it loud" have been meaningless since she would have had no frame of reference?

Bodnoirbabe said @ 2:32am GMT on 2nd Oct
She wasn't completely deaf. She used a hearing aid to hear and more than likely also took speech classes to help with the deaf "accent".

My husband, as I've shared before, is partially deaf. He has over 50% hearing loss in both ears, but he still speaks fine. He has the deaf accent, but it's not as bad as someone who is completely deaf. As a matter of fact, most people think he's European because of it. When they as where his accent is from, he tells them he got it at Target on sale.

Mr. Langosta said @ 12:03pm GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:2]
50% off?

kaoscowboy17 said @ 2:48am GMT on 2nd Oct
I caught this a recently and put it up on my facebook. Really nice video.
I was curious... I can't know what it is to know language through methods other than hearing. Lip reading, mimicking, and observing could conceivably induce some sort of familiarity with what language sounds like. But she seemed to be quite familiar with hearing and responding. At times she covered her face and still clearly understood the girl talking to her.
Would you recognize red if you'd been color blind all your life and saw it for the first time?
Perhaps.
It seems quite genuine, and really, moving.

devilsad said @ 10:34am GMT on 2nd Oct
Would you recognize red if you'd been color blind all your life and saw it for the first time?

Color blind =/= colors are invisible. Reds are red, Greens are green, but sometimes red looks more green and green looks more brown and orange looks like peach and so on. It's like how your sense of taste and smell is affected by smoking. You can still taste your food, but once you quit you can experience it much more intensely and pick out all the subtle flavors.

Jaxon said @ 7:19pm GMT on 2nd Oct
So I just have to quit some sort of vice and then I'll get my full range of colour vision back?

There's a psychological aspect to knowing the colours you are seeing are probably not accurate to the point that I don't confidently use colours for reference at all, even ones that I might be seeing correctly because I can't be sure.

The reaction isn't to hearing for the first time (well part of it is), the reaction is to being completely confident that what you are hearing is what everyone else is hearing.

theolypse said @ 2:56am GMT on 2nd Oct
Only a tiny fraction of a percent of the population can fake the full suite of emotional responses she shows. So there's that.

f00m@nB@r said @ 7:12am GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:1 Funny]
not everything is about your divorce.

theolypse said @ 12:28pm GMT on 2nd Oct
So parsimony says she's likely to be genuine. wtf, scientist?

theolypse said @ 12:27pm GMT on 2nd Oct
I...

Troll?

ckfahrenheit said @ 3:53pm GMT on 2nd Oct
I've seen footage of a similar, experimental implant operation done back in the 70s or 80s, and that woman reacted exactly the same way.

tickaz said @ 3:19am GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:4]

tsujaelttilsane said @ 3:28am GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:1 WTF]
At least something original came out of this post. :-P

brat#3 said @ 5:51am GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:1 Funny]
Not sure if joke or not.. but.. there is that :-p..

tickaz said @ 1:44pm GMT on 2nd Oct
LOL I posted this here because it has been posted in comments at least twice before...

Maybe this deserves it own post too?

tsujaelttilsane said @ 4:31pm GMT on 2nd Oct
I would say it's more worthy of a post. It along with the other similar videos that have been posted in comments here recently, along with some more to make it a theme post, would be much better.

TungstenChloride said @ 5:14pm GMT on 8th Oct
Thanks for posting this, it's inspired a few ideas.

CapnSilver said @ 8:40am GMT on 2nd Oct
I'm trying to find the original post this is from, but it looks like it isn't.

Well done you "repost" modding guys. You still dont know the consensus for a repost.

CapnSilver said @ 9:10am GMT on 2nd Oct
Cept Zen, who I suspect wants +10repost

mrcucumber said @ 2:21pm GMT on 2nd Oct
This is like the third or fourth time it's made an appearance.

lalanda said @ 12:34pm GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:-2]
So fucking unimpressed.

Bodnoirbabe said @ 4:59pm GMT on 2nd Oct
Good for you! No one should be impressed by improvements to medical science! I mean, it's not like she couldn't hear SOMETHING before. Jeez! Why should it be impressive that someone who is deaf can now hear!?

radioelectric said @ 9:41pm GMT on 3rd Oct
If it's faked we should be upset because it's an advert.

yogi said @ 10:30pm GMT on 2nd Oct [Score:5 Informative]
First, just to give you all some idea of my authority and experience, I've had a moderate hearing loss since birth--58 years ago--and worn aids to hear since I was 6. Over the last 52 years my hearing's got worse. I can still play guitar well and sing on tune because the aids I have are analog and work very well. Lots of people forget my loss because I do so well and speak so well. That's because I had a speech tutor who taught me to lipread.

Second, the headline--"deaf woman"--leads one to believe that this woman cannot hear at all, because that's what the term is usually taken to mean: that someone cannot hear at all. But she can--she call herself, as I read severely to profoundly hearing impaired. So the headline is misleading.

Third, there's loads of different kinds of hearing losses. There's high frequency losses, low frequency losses, a combo of the two, ringing sounds in the head which can hamper hearing (known as tinnitus), losses which make it difficult to the human voce as opposed to music, and vice versa.

Fourth, she's fairly young. That means the technology she's had for hearing has been more advanced in recent years for the time's she's worn aids, and so her ability to hear is not affected as much. I don't think I worded that well, but I think the point is clear.

Fifth, I can hear someone when they are right next to me, too, with my aids on. No biggie there.

Sixth, she does speak well. Contrast that with her self-assessment that she has a severe to profound loss--which could mean anything--and we can only assume she's had speech therapy and good aids.

Seventh, even today I can go into an audiologist's sound-proof booth to get my hearing checked and I will break down crying. This is such a sensitive area, because being without hearing means that I am cut off from participation in a conversation, particularly in a group, and relegated to observation only. That's lonelifying.

By comparison, and for understanding, one who is blind can participate in conversations, and that feeling of inclusion accounts for a lot. No wonder that young woman cried. Too bad the headlines were misleading.

radioelectric said @ 9:41pm GMT on 3rd Oct
From my previous response to this: