It is amazing to consider the number of medical breakthroughs which have occurred in the last century. We tend to accept things as commonplace today which would have been considered literally miracles a hundred years ago.
I don't know why I watched this video,I'm a big hairy arsed Scotsman ,but I'm reduced to a bubbling wreck after I watch it I think it's because it's so wonderful,to see people react with pure joy to something I take for granted.I hope they hear beautiful things for the rest of their live
I hear you. When I find myself taking things for granted I watch these videos, then I watch people seeing color for the first time. Talk about putting things into perspective.
Yeaa but the thing is; big hair ass Scotsman is that we all love to see joy in another person's face dont we ! So wonderfully, wonderfully precious ! Looking forward to meeting you someday in the joyous, heaven eternal !!!
I am deaf and I understand each and everyone of the people. It give me joy to see the people hearing for the first time. I lost my hearing in my 60's. I am now 81 with a cochlear implant. I get so much joy out of watching these people.
@@timothytomblin I would like to know this too. Are the frequencies the same? The voices on old music records sound the same? Musical instruments, do they sound like before the hear loss?
The intelligence they have to match those new sounds they're hearing for the first time, to what they learned with sign language combined with reading lips.
Seeing these people experience the gift of hearing and lighting up over something most of us take for granted is a profoundly beautiful moment to share.
it really is makes me wonder how many other simple pleasures and things we ignore until we no longer have them...like the scent of my first loves hair as we would wait in line on a date....with her being 5'2" it was always fresh and made me melt in her presence. a world without that simple experience would have changed my world.
All these videos with "DEAF PEOPLE HEARING SOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME !" is only giving people false hope... The problem is that if you was born deaf your brain has not developed the ability to proses sound and because of that you can not get your hearing later in life either because your brain can not learn this later. YOU have to have had hearing early in life long enough for the brain to develop this ability for this to work,,.., ++
My sister worked with a women decades ago that received one of the first bionic ears as they were referred to back then. C. This video fills me with so much joy & is wonderful.
The Little Baby Girl responding to the eyes and belly button was so on point. I am so happy for all who have been and taken part in these Beautiful Blessings.
I will never forget the day my Son heard for the first time using hearing aids. He is now an amazing young man, a freshman at California School for the Deaf, Fremont. Parents, please don't worry if and when your kids decide to turn them off for a while, for a quiet break! In our house, we refer to his ability to turn off his hearing, as one of his Super Powers! Embrace ASL and enjoy the special relationship that you have with your child! 🤟
Thank you for sharing. I'm happy for him and y'all. As a person with severe ADHD, I understand when you say it's a super power. Because every time I hear a helicopter go by, I get severe anxiety....like I can't even continue my normal tasks when it happens.
That's a really common misconception! What you think is loud, is actually 'normal' volume, but as your hearing deteriorated, you lost track of that 'normal', so when confronted with sounds that your ears can't track on their own, when using hearing aids to bring sound back to the normal you can't do naturally, makes you think it's unnaturally loud, when it isn't!! I've been trying to explain this exact phenomena to my older brother, who's just recently got two hearing aids. He's actually refusing to use them, because he thinks they're 'too loud', when they're not at all!! Btw, I do know what I'm talking about, I've had two aids for almost 20 years, so I went through this myself, waaay back when, but I soon realised I was only getting my 'normal' volume back, after years of straining to hear stuff!!
@@jamespasifullLet's just say your brother and I see (or hear!) things differently (I've also dumped mine). What's 'normal' to you is no longer normal to us and vice versa. Could we adapt back? - sure - do we chose to?, NO. We are both comfortable with our decision and can change it tomorrow if we so wish. So why on earth do you have a problem?
@@HowardRamsey Woah there!! I don't have a problem at all, I think you grabbed the wrong end of the stick when you read my comment. I was just explaining exactly WHY your hearing aids sound 'too loud', but you seem to have taken offence at something I've discussed with a number of audiologists over the 20 years I've been using them. As a newbie, you actually KNOW very little about the workings of hearing aids, & as a voluntary non-user, you clearly decided that isolation is preferable, & that's your choice, BUT, my point still stands! What you think is 'too loud' IS the normal volume ordinary hearers can hear, but as you're used to hearing so much less, ANY increase is going to jar for a while, until your ears re-set themselves, with the help of hearing aids, back to that normal volume. I can't explain it any clearer, & that's all I was trying to do in the first place, when you decided to take offence, when it wasn't given in the first place! I hope you can get some use out of your hearing aids, if only to stay in the human race, because isolating yourself voluntarily seems like a self defeating option! 😁
I cried. That little baby boy… reminds me of my son who passed. He was almost 3 months old. Although he, Dante, wasn’t deaf, he had an autoimmune disorder passed by me, the father. 😢 Now he is safe with God, fully healed! God bless these doctors and scientists who actually HELP us!
I could watch these all day. My father was deaf since the age of 12 due to a horrible accident, and his cochlear implant surgery did not work. It was in the 1980s when they were still experimental. It was heartbreaking for him, and for us, to have expectations raised so high, only to be dashed when it didn't work. He's been gone 12 years and I miss him. I love to watch these videos, and am so happy for the families who experience such joy. To see their faces light up is amazing. There are few things as beautiful as these moments when people are given the gift of hearing the people who love them.
Same with my uncle except the surgery was successful but a radio was playing in the cafe next door and the first thing he heard was Nickelback. He ripped out the implant.
The most gripping part for me is that they seem so happy and surprised by hearing their own voices. A thing all hearing people not only take for granted, but we can´t even imagine us without it.
OMG, I am 50, I have been completely deaf in my left ear since birth! I cannot express how bad I want to hear out of both ears! I was told it was nerve deafness and could not be fixed. I would have saved every extra penny, even skipped meals to be able to hear out of both ears. I can't track sounds, I can't hardly find my phone by ringing it. I have to just accept it, but it felt good to get excited for these beautiful people. Kinda feeling their pain made the joy bring me to tears multiple times!
😂 I'm happy for all these. I'm 64 with hearing loss, and thank God for technology and technicians who have helped those without hearing. God bless all.
I was a front of house soundman for concerts. The power of sound is part of our souls. This is the reality of a person having to experience this . Thank you. God bless all the people who have a disability. Love and help them. ❤
Thank you. I have multiple health issues and today has been a very bad day. These videos made me so happy and also made me realize that today I would be better served by realizing there are things which could be worse and I should work towards gratefulness.
I haven`t been deaf in all my life and I hope, it won´t happen to me in the rest of my life. I watched these different scenes in Silvester evening 2023 and to see the reactions of all these people and children is so overwhelming and heartwarming.... I can´t describe it in words. I am very thankful to all these persons who shared this wonderful moment with us. Thanks a lot! It has been one of the moments of the year in 2023!
One thing I notice about deaf people, is that they all have this innocence about them, like the ability not to hear kept them from being contaminated by society.
Boy do I know (for real) what's it like to hear for the first time - So I know how nice it feels for all of them ☺️💖 My hearing lost wasn't that severe, I just needed to have tubes put in for awhile And I spoke my first words at 4yrs old (from new born to 4yrs old I never heard a sound) And when I Said Hi dad for the first time he started crying hugged me and wouldn't let go Oh and I haven't stopped talking since then 😃
OMG.. This brought me to serious tears with every story!!. I have cancer and neuropathy and hearing loss wasn't too bad at first. Im 50 now and my hearing seems to be decreasing exponentially. My sight is now beginning to shows signs of degradation.. As a man that lived his life as an artist and then tattoo artist, and also a musician that has played guitar since 16 and eventually in a band for 8 years.. My neuropathy has caused me to lose feeling in my feet and lower legs first and now it is in my hands. My fingertips and my palms no have no feeling. Now it has progressed into now my hearing and eventually my sight.. To be someone that all my joy and my career was based on having those senses and abilities and to now slowly have them taken away is something i cannot even begin to explain.. The turmoil I feel within myself. My fiancée a year ago, told me she didn't sign up for hospice and packed and left.. Feeling that your own body is against you, and now my support has left.. Its an incredibly lonely and dismal road.. Seeing these people be given back at least one gift god has given them is incredibly emotional for me.. So sorry. Not trying to make it about me.. I am too old with too many other medical issues to be a candidate for something like this.. Feel I have been robbed and it was no fault of my own.. God bless everyone that is able to have those senses again..
I used to watch these ten years or so ago before shipping off to Afghanistan and then Iraq. I just "rediscovered" these videos and remember now how totally magical and healing they are. Thanks for posting.
I am losing my hearing, and I feel for each one of these people. I remember the first time I got glasses and could actually see the leaves on the tree I was standing underneath. It was astounding. I wonder if hearing is the same. Thanks for sharing these moments.
I love this. Having lost the hearing in my left ear years ago, I am deeply moved watching these moments of restoration. The joy on the faces of these people is so lovely. Maybe some day...
Thankyou Professor Graeme Clark AC. A GREAT Australian. Inventor of the Cochlear Implant. Cochlear is a truly incredible Australian export to the world.
My tubes completely plugged up once. I lost hearing in both ears. Never been through anything so terrifying. After a month it started to come back but was still kinda tinny and underwater like. Will never take the gift of hearing for granted again
These are the moments, that show us how we normally take things for granted, but they are definitely NOT. We should cherish all that we get and it´s such a beautiful gift to hear. I am so glad for each one of them that they can share this gift with us again!
I don't have a clue who or how the "cochlear" implant was founded, however, it is, without a doubt, a life-changing device and is a Godsend for thousands of children and adults. Very emotional video.
Ohhh, impossible not to cry. I have cry like a baby... Such a miracle!!! I'm so, so happy for them. Thanks very much for all of those who make happened this miracle all over the world!!! It's God's work. Thank you for sharing with us.
I have had the privilege of fitting cochler implants and thousands of hearing aids to all ages over many years and it never gets old seeing these reactions. With implants what is not realised is we stimulate very few frequencies so the sound is very artificial and metallic but compared to no coherent sound the change is still amazing and we must never under estimate the benefit it brings.
Yeah. I do have a cochlear implant and I've heard real sound before. Normal hearing is like having a full oled TV, cochlear implant is like black and white tv. It sure brings a lot, but thats no way near close to what hearing is.
Have they improved much in the last 10 years? 5 years? Or have they hit pretty much the limit in frequency range? What’s typically the lowest frequency they can hear?
Good question@@wesleydeer889 . My cochear implant is now 24 year old. Got it when i was 15 and so far as I know, there are still 22 to 25 electrodes deep in the cochlea for the new ones nowadays. Number is pretty much the same over the years. What actually improved is the way you do the implant because you know where to precisely put it on the hearing nerve - it improves the quality of sound actually, which we didn't know pretty well 25 years ago. The sound processing (external part) also improved a lot (better mics, better signal processing, better algorithms to process the sound, so you can focus on speech, music, etc). I will probably get a new cochlear implant (lasting almost 25 years is already a feat, considering mine is designed to last only 10 years...) so I can't answer more precisely until i've experienced it by myself.
Frequency range is usually the same as you mortals gifted with normal sound, but it's not as "fine grain" vs normal audition and the sound renders it more "metallic" (ie black&white vs oled tv color) but I got the two last high tone freq disabled because it was giving me severe headaches (we still dont know why it happens) and i know i'm not the only one with some frequencies disabled. And yes, I've been among the first to receive a cochlear implant, considering the first ones were delivered 30 year ago, at the time I had one, there were only 200 people in the world that had it, 10 per year in my country (compared to today with almost 1 mil people through the world...)
This made me cry I became deaf in my twenties after birth of my twins ,I have hard time hearing with aids clarity etc but the little ones hearing sound for first time! hope hearing aids or real ear measurements improve worldwide for these little ones
For ANYONE to hear for the first time after years of not hearing anything, brings joy and happiness to my heart. For someone that has heard nothing their whole life to hear someone say hello to them or to just talk to them is a break though in medical science. To not have one of your five senses and then to have it again or for the first time is amazing. Videos like these bring tears of happiness to me and I'm sure many others as well.
My loss of hearing is nothing compared to them as I use hearing aids on both ears so it's not too bad but I deeply feel for them to able hear again. I was really moved to see their joy with a couple of tears 😢! Really wish them happiness 😊 ❤
From the age of when I was about two, I had 20% of my hearing on both ears all the way up until I turned 56 and then I got my hearing aids for the first time. I was absolutely amazed after all these years of all sounds I have been missing. I love music, now I can hear all of the instruments playing in a song.. I am 60 now from that moment, has changed my life forever. Thanks to technology, engineering and doctors who made this possible with those were missing out.
My friend was completely deaf and unable to speak -- what a difference this could have made to her when young. Sadly, she died without hearing any sound. She was the happiest person I have ever met !
A bit weird, however... If these girls never heard before. Then how do they know what people are saying. How can they SPEAK. They just figured it out on the first try?
I was lucky enough to get the surgery I needed when I was 11 years old. It can be a very traumatic experience to go through. For me hearing for the first time my emotions overwhelmed me. Trying to process what was going on was the scariest part. I thank God and the doctors to give me hearing again. I’m so happy for this young girl. Congratulations ❤️
Estos vídeos son muy emocionantes y deberían hacernos valorar cosas que damos por sentadas y no valoramos como simplemente oír ...ver a personas de todas las edades romper a llorar de emoción por oír es impresionante
I always wonder how they can understand what is being said and how they can speak normally for the most part for the first time. Especially for those who have been deaf their whole life. It's quite amazing.
If you notice, most of them lost their hearing. If you are deaf from birth you can't speak. You can make sounds but not words. I worked with a guy who could only make sounds. I feel so bad now, not being friendlier to him, not that I was unfriendly, but imagine not be able to just communicate with people. How lonely that must be.
@@jakerazmataz852 Some people who are deaf from birth can speak if they're taught how to but they all speak in the same strange way. The teacher will have them touch their throats so they can feel the vibrations. I remember seeing two deaf people where one could read lips and speak in this strange but understandable way and the other couldn't read lips and could only use sign language. So the first could live in the hearing world okay but the second one could only communicate with people who knew sign language.
Hello 🙋🏻♂️ I am deaf and I would like to help you solve your 'riddle'. First, the title of the video is wrong; the people who react by speaking when activating the cochlear implant are because they previously heard using classic hearing aids and developed oral communication well. Now, when a person who was born with a hearing loss of more than 85% and who did not have speech therapy is implanted, he or she will emit "strange" sounds, not words. For this case of a patient, activating an implant will involve hearing through first time.😊 Although at first it is very strange to listen, everything sounds very robotic, which is why therapy is required. Sorry for the translation, I don't speak English very well. Regards.
As adorable and as heartwarming as these clips are... it does make me wonder how a person who's hearing sounds for the first time is able to comprehend them -- wouldn't they have only been communicating via sign language and written text? Feeling kinda dense right now.
What a great idea you have given deaf people a new life. Everyone can't help but cry. It's a valuable opportunity and innovation. Just think, 30-40 years ago, there was no technology that could help them. It's amazing.♥♥
I was deaf when I was little. My mom had no idea. Thought I was quiet. My kindergarten teacher told her I was deaf. She could care less. What lucky kids.
It´s beautiful that some of us are working so hard to help the ones in need. We who have all these wonderful things take them for granted just going about our day...Whats more beautiful than seeing a person light up like that from joy...Making others happy and helping them should be our priority, and it should make us feel good as well...I feel like so many people do not understand this but are only thinking about themselves...Thank god for those who care...
Como deve ser emocionante poder ouvir pela primeira vez. Viva a tecnologia e profissionais dedicados em restabelecer algo tão precioso em nossas vidas.
We learned to speak first. We learned by hearing speech and our brains begin to make the connections between these sounds we are hearing and things in the world. We begin to be able to have organized thoughts through the inner monolog which I still think everyone has even if theirs is just so quiet, they don't recognize it. I've seen deaf people before asked, how do they think? How does their internal monolog work. For them it was a visual thing, they think in sign language by seeing the signs in their head and are able to have coherent thought that way. Typically a few years later we begin to learn to read. We learn to associate these letters with specific sounds and words. Literate deaf people learn to associate a word with a sign, and then can learn that a certain arrangement of letter also mean that word they associate with a sigh. They can also get pretty good at lip reading and can associate the lip movements with a word they know through sign language. How are they able or are they able to immediately associate the sounds they have never heard before with their first language, sign language? Like they can picture a duck in their mind, we know what they look like. They know how to say "duck" in sign language, then they learn to associate the letters d-u-c-k with the animal. But they have never heard the word spoken outloud before. Are they able to associate the sounds they hear to words? Or are they hearing the sounds of speech, they can't yet associate the sounds to meaning, and they are still relying on lip reading to derrive the meaning from the speech they hear? I mean I imagine it wouldn't take very long, it's not like trying to learn a completely new language, they know English (or their native spoken language) they know the words, they just don't yet know how the words sound. Maybe someone can help me try to understand.
I was actually asking myself the same question. There is no way they can understand imediatly the meaning of the sound so i guess they answer according to the lips but they can still prounonce words correctly so i guess those one are the one who are not completly deaf or get deaf later in the childwood. Cause you can see some of them talking and some don't answer with voice, so i guess it's not the same level of deaf.
All these videos with "DEAF PEOPLE HEARING SOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME !" is only giving people false hope... The problem is that if you was born deaf your brain has not developed the ability to proses sound and because of that you can not get your hearing later in life either because your brain can not learn this later. YOU have to have had hearing early in life long enough for the brain to develop this ability for this to work,,..,+ +
It is amazing to consider the number of medical breakthroughs which have occurred in the last century. We tend to accept things as commonplace today which would have been considered literally miracles a hundred years ago.
I’m a 51 years old… how many others were like me and chocking back happy tears watching this video?
I got you beat at 53 😁💛
Mid 30s...
I'ma51yearsold...howmanyotherswere
likemeandchockingdackhappytears
watchingthisvideo?
I don't know why I watched this video,I'm a big hairy arsed Scotsman ,but I'm reduced to a bubbling wreck after I watch it
I think it's because it's so wonderful,to see people react with pure joy to something I take for granted.I hope they hear beautiful things for the rest of their live
Cute 😊
I hear you. When I find myself taking things for granted I watch these videos, then I watch people seeing color for the first time. Talk about putting things into perspective.
lol 🤣 amazing aint it
Yeaa but the thing is; big hair ass Scotsman is that we all love to see joy in another person's face dont we ! So wonderfully, wonderfully precious ! Looking forward to meeting you someday in the joyous, heaven eternal !!!
Don't you know that big hairy arsed Scotsman have super sized hearts?
I am deaf and I understand each and everyone of the people. It give me joy to see the people hearing for the first time. I lost my hearing in my 60's. I am now 81 with a cochlear implant. I get so much joy out of watching these people.
Is the hearing the same as when you were young? Are the sounds the same?
@@timothytomblin I would like to know this too. Are the frequencies the same? The voices on old music records sound the same? Musical instruments, do they sound like before the hear loss?
"I didn't know the lights make noise". So poetic.
Right? And so right lol.
So many things in daily life make little sounds that a newly non-deaf person would pick up
Loved that ❤
@@nthgthI hope her enhanced sensitivity stays like that
@@Photo_doctor it won't, if our brain didn't ignore so many things, especially sounds, we'd all go crazy and disappear as humans xD
@@Photo_doctor trust me, it's not so great. There are some of us who seem to hear everything, really hard to sleep...
I’m a 47 year old man and these videos always make me cry thank God for human ingenuity and thank you for your videos
I was saying the same thing! Thank God for giving us the gift of ingenuity.
Short of delivering babies, these doctors have to have the most rewarding days at work. The patient reactions are truly priceless.
Sometimes we all need a small reminder of how blessed we really are. Very touching!
"I didn't know the lights make noise"... wow, what a universe to experiment anew and how we the hearing take much for granted!
The intelligence they have to match those new sounds they're hearing for the first time, to what they learned with sign language combined with reading lips.
I was wondering how that worked considering they don't know what sound sounds like. Its pretty cool how they instantly understand
Seeing these people experience the gift of hearing and lighting up over something most of us take for granted is a profoundly beautiful moment to share.
it really is makes me wonder how many other simple pleasures and things we ignore until we no longer have them...like the scent of my first loves hair as we would wait in line on a date....with her being 5'2" it was always fresh and made me melt in her presence. a world without that simple experience would have changed my world.
It is. Made me regret some of my daily complaints.
All these videos with "DEAF PEOPLE HEARING SOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME !" is only giving people false hope... The problem is that if you was born deaf your brain has not developed the ability to proses sound and because of that you can not get your hearing later in life either because your brain can not learn this later. YOU have to have had hearing early in life long enough for the brain to develop this ability for this to work,,..,
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I was thinking the same thing, but you said it more eloquently
@@a64738& you are wrong! It worked for me!Are you deaf? Have you tried it?
I just spent the last 19 minutes crying tears of joy and pure emotion
It’s truly amazing! I received mine @ 65 yrs of age! Being in the world of silence is super lonely….& now? I love hearing!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
My sister worked with a women decades ago that received one of the first bionic ears as they were referred to back then. C. This video fills me with so much joy & is wonderful.
I envy your sentimentality. I thought about how I'd never have to listen to anybody again. Wouldn't be that bad.
The Little Baby Girl responding to the eyes and belly button was so on point. I am so happy for all who have been and taken part in these Beautiful Blessings.
I will never forget the day my Son heard for the first time using hearing aids. He is now an amazing young man, a freshman at California School for the Deaf, Fremont. Parents, please don't worry if and when your kids decide to turn them off for a while, for a quiet break! In our house, we refer to his ability to turn off his hearing, as one of his Super Powers! Embrace ASL and enjoy the special relationship that you have with your child! 🤟
Thank you for sharing. I'm happy for him and y'all. As a person with severe ADHD, I understand when you say it's a super power. Because every time I hear a helicopter go by, I get severe anxiety....like I can't even continue my normal tasks when it happens.
I work at Ohlone College 😄 we are neighbors 💕
I wish I had an off switch at times.
Probably the most heart warming thing I’ve ever had the fortune to watch.
better than watch news about wars for sure..!!!!
Thank you Australia for this amazing gift to the world.
And NASA
Been losing hearing for the last 10 years, had aids fitted 2 days ago. Jeez the worlds a noisy place!
That's a really common misconception!
What you think is loud, is actually 'normal' volume, but as your hearing deteriorated, you lost track of that 'normal', so when confronted with sounds that your ears can't track on their own, when using hearing aids to bring sound back to the normal you can't do naturally, makes you think it's unnaturally loud, when it isn't!!
I've been trying to explain this exact phenomena to my older brother, who's just recently got two hearing aids.
He's actually refusing to use them, because he thinks they're 'too loud', when they're not at all!!
Btw, I do know what I'm talking about, I've had two aids for almost 20 years, so I went through this myself, waaay back when, but I soon realised I was only getting my 'normal' volume back, after years of straining to hear stuff!!
@@jamespasifullLet's just say your brother and I see (or hear!) things differently (I've also dumped mine). What's 'normal' to you is no longer normal to us and vice versa. Could we adapt back? - sure - do we chose to?, NO.
We are both comfortable with our decision and can change it tomorrow if we so wish. So why on earth do you have a problem?
@@HowardRamsey
Woah there!!
I don't have a problem at all, I think you grabbed the wrong end of the stick when you read my comment.
I was just explaining exactly WHY your hearing aids sound 'too loud', but you seem to have taken offence at something I've discussed with a number of audiologists over the 20 years I've been using them.
As a newbie, you actually KNOW very little about the workings of hearing aids, & as a voluntary non-user, you clearly decided that isolation is preferable, & that's your choice, BUT, my point still stands!
What you think is 'too loud' IS the normal volume ordinary hearers can hear, but as you're used to hearing so much less, ANY increase is going to jar for a while, until your ears re-set themselves, with the help of hearing aids, back to that normal volume.
I can't explain it any clearer, & that's all I was trying to do in the first place, when you decided to take offence, when it wasn't given in the first place!
I hope you can get some use out of your hearing aids, if only to stay in the human race, because isolating yourself voluntarily seems like a self defeating option! 😁
@@HowardRamsey ngl if I were you I’d have them so when you’re talking to people and you’re sick of them just shut em off
My advice. keep away from lgbt+. They are noisy as hell
I cried. That little baby boy… reminds me of my son who passed. He was almost 3 months old. Although he, Dante, wasn’t deaf, he had an autoimmune disorder passed by me, the father. 😢 Now he is safe with God, fully healed! God bless these doctors and scientists who actually HELP us!
Aww so sorry for your loss 😭🥺
I could watch these all day. My father was deaf since the age of 12 due to a horrible accident, and his cochlear implant surgery did not work. It was in the 1980s when they were still experimental. It was heartbreaking for him, and for us, to have expectations raised so high, only to be dashed when it didn't work. He's been gone 12 years and I miss him. I love to watch these videos, and am so happy for the families who experience such joy. To see their faces light up is amazing. There are few things as beautiful as these moments when people are given the gift of hearing the people who love them.
😢 what kinda accident was it that he lost his hearing? 😮
Sorry to hear this. But your father obviously raised a caring family regardless. I’m sure he was proud of that.
Nobody is laughing. Such a shame that it doesn't work w
@@ElSabio159 // 🤔😵💫 what lesson is that??
Same with my uncle except the surgery was successful but a radio was playing in the cafe next door and the first thing he heard was Nickelback. He ripped out the implant.
The most gripping part for me is that they seem so happy and surprised by hearing their own voices. A thing all hearing people not only take for granted, but we can´t even imagine us without it.
A great contribution from our Australian scientists now spreading around the world…congratulations guys you’re brilliant
Aussie Aussie Aussie!
Can you imagine having a completely new sense suddenly unlocked? And then being able to experience music? That must be mindblowing
A dormant part of the brain must fire up. It's really fascinating to watch.
Kids get the same experience when they enter in a cheat code, but this is so much more profound!
Yes, it happens when your pineal gland starts to work.
It must be like discovering telepathy!
That must be fantastic. `Like going to heaven and seeing colours one could not have previously imagined, but even better.
It's wild that deaf people have accents. Precious.
OMG, I am 50, I have been completely deaf in my left ear since birth! I cannot express how bad I want to hear out of both ears! I was told it was nerve deafness and could not be fixed. I would have saved every extra penny, even skipped meals to be able to hear out of both ears. I can't track sounds, I can't hardly find my phone by ringing it. I have to just accept it, but it felt good to get excited for these beautiful people. Kinda feeling their pain made the joy bring me to tears multiple times!
😂 I'm happy for all these. I'm 64 with hearing loss, and thank God for technology and technicians who have helped those without hearing. God bless all.
I was a front of house soundman for concerts. The power of sound is part of our souls. This is the reality of a person having to experience this . Thank you. God bless all the people who have a disability. Love and help them. ❤
These kids brings me tears of joy. Beautiful ! 💖
Thank you. I have multiple health issues and today has been a very bad day. These videos made me so happy and also made me realize that today I would be better served by realizing there are things which could be worse and I should work towards gratefulness.
I haven`t been deaf in all my life and I hope, it won´t happen to me in the rest of my life. I watched these different scenes in Silvester evening 2023 and to see the reactions of all these people and children is so overwhelming and heartwarming.... I can´t describe it in words. I am very thankful to all these persons who shared this wonderful moment with us. Thanks a lot! It has been one of the moments of the year in 2023!
Thank you to those who give hope to the deaf. What a wonderful gift.
The scientists responsible for this are heroes of mankind.
I would like to give a big hug to each and every one of these people. They ALL made me want to cry with joy.
This just goes to show how much we take for granted. So glad they all have unlocked a new level of life
One thing I notice about deaf people, is that they all have this innocence about them, like the ability not to hear kept them from being contaminated by society.
thats just illusion. we are all trash, deaf people included
@thoughtank1019 Beautiful comment
@Gusttafa Dont say we are all trash.. What about the people who made these kind individuals able to hear in the first place?
Exactly right!!!
That's true. My gf is deaf. She was born deaf and has the same innocence thing also
Boy do I know (for real) what's it like to hear for the first time - So I know how nice it feels for all of them ☺️💖
My hearing lost wasn't that severe, I just needed to have tubes put in for awhile And I spoke my first words at 4yrs old (from new born to 4yrs old I never heard a sound)
And when I Said Hi dad for the first time he started crying hugged me and wouldn't let go
Oh and I haven't stopped talking since then 😃
OMG.. This brought me to serious tears with every story!!. I have cancer and neuropathy and hearing loss wasn't too bad at first. Im 50 now and my hearing seems to be decreasing exponentially. My sight is now beginning to shows signs of degradation..
As a man that lived his life as an artist and then tattoo artist, and also a musician that has played guitar since 16 and eventually in a band for 8 years.. My neuropathy has caused me to lose feeling in my feet and lower legs first and now it is in my hands. My fingertips and my palms no have no feeling. Now it has progressed into now my hearing and eventually my sight.. To be someone that all my joy and my career was based on having those senses and abilities and to now slowly have them taken away is something i cannot even begin to explain.. The turmoil I feel within myself. My fiancée a year ago, told me she didn't sign up for hospice and packed and left.. Feeling that your own body is against you, and now my support has left.. Its an incredibly lonely and dismal road.. Seeing these people be given back at least one gift god has given them is incredibly emotional for me..
So sorry. Not trying to make it about me.. I am too old with too many other medical issues to be a candidate for something like this.. Feel I have been robbed and it was no fault of my own.. God bless everyone that is able to have those senses again..
Even the babies react with giant smiles.
Absolutely heartwarming to see how surprised and happy these people are to hear for the first time or have hearing restored. Life changing experience.
I used to watch these ten years or so ago before shipping off to Afghanistan and then Iraq. I just "rediscovered" these videos and remember now how totally magical and healing they are. Thanks for posting.
Holy crap, I dont think I've ever fought so hard to hold back tears. So happy for all of them!!!
Best reaction, makes you cry. The human spirit is indomitable
I am losing my hearing, and I feel for each one of these people. I remember the first time I got glasses and could actually see the leaves on the tree I was standing underneath. It was astounding. I wonder if hearing is the same. Thanks for sharing these moments.
I would love to see these people reaction to hearing great music for the first time.
Some of the most rewarding viewing on the net, well done to everyone involved.
I love this. Having lost the hearing in my left ear years ago, I am deeply moved watching these moments of restoration. The joy on the faces of these people is so lovely. Maybe some day...
We may not be able to make the blind see . But to make people hear is a miracle
I really enjoy the delight. Brings tears to my eyes.
Always I want to remember to be grateful,
for I have had losses and found things too.
Love this. This is were society needs to put its energy. Helping others.
God bless the doctors and all the people making this happen.
The amount of love shown is absolutely beautiful for all these people
I haven't cried like this in 30 years...God bless these doctors
Thankyou Professor Graeme Clark AC. A GREAT Australian. Inventor of the Cochlear Implant. Cochlear is a truly incredible Australian export to the world.
How unbelievably rewarding that must be to see patients light up like that!
Something we take for granted becomes a beautiful gift for these individuals. Brings a smile to my face and a tear to my eye.
It is so wonderful see people experience something that some of us take for granted.
My tubes completely plugged up once. I lost hearing in both ears. Never been through anything so terrifying. After a month it started to come back but was still kinda tinny and underwater like. Will never take the gift of hearing for granted again
Just heartbreakingly beautiful.
These are the moments, that show us how we normally take things for granted, but they are definitely NOT. We should cherish all that we get and it´s such a beautiful gift to hear. I am so glad for each one of them that they can share this gift with us again!
This is the result of thousands of hours of work from very intelligent people. I take my hat off to all involved.
I don't have a clue who or how the "cochlear" implant was founded, however, it is, without a doubt, a life-changing device and is a Godsend for thousands of children and adults. Very emotional video.
It's an Australian invention.
God bless them. @@catmeow11111
Some deaf people can hear with cochlear implant , other deaf people can not hear with cochlear implant.
We who can hear must be so thankful
So beautiful. Just imagine how their caring parents must feel?
The most precious gift they can give their child and seeing them happy as a reward? No i cannot imagine😉
You can't help but smile this whole video. Thanks for sharing Kindness.
Oh My God!!! Thank You So Very Much For Doing This!!!
There Are No Words That Can Describe How Beautiful!!!
If you’re a human and this doesn’t tear you up. I don’t like you lol. This is awesome.
Ohhh, impossible not to cry. I have cry like a baby... Such a miracle!!! I'm so, so happy for them. Thanks very much for all of those who make happened this miracle all over the world!!! It's God's work. Thank you for sharing with us.
You mean its science, not a miracle. The miracle would be god not making them deaf in the first place.
I have had the privilege of fitting cochler implants and thousands of hearing aids to all ages over many years and it never gets old seeing these reactions. With implants what is not realised is we stimulate very few frequencies so the sound is very artificial and metallic but compared to no coherent sound the change is still amazing and we must never under estimate the benefit it brings.
Yeah. I do have a cochlear implant and I've heard real sound before. Normal hearing is like having a full oled TV, cochlear implant is like black and white tv. It sure brings a lot, but thats no way near close to what hearing is.
@@lulalelilo Thank you for a comparison like that. Helps A LOT to understand the differences, limitations, etc Thanks!!
Have they improved much in the last 10 years? 5 years? Or have they hit pretty much the limit in frequency range? What’s typically the lowest frequency they can hear?
Good question@@wesleydeer889 . My cochear implant is now 24 year old. Got it when i was 15 and so far as I know, there are still 22 to 25 electrodes deep in the cochlea for the new ones nowadays. Number is pretty much the same over the years. What actually improved is the way you do the implant because you know where to precisely put it on the hearing nerve - it improves the quality of sound actually, which we didn't know pretty well 25 years ago. The sound processing (external part) also improved a lot (better mics, better signal processing, better algorithms to process the sound, so you can focus on speech, music, etc). I will probably get a new cochlear implant (lasting almost 25 years is already a feat, considering mine is designed to last only 10 years...) so I can't answer more precisely until i've experienced it by myself.
Frequency range is usually the same as you mortals gifted with normal sound, but it's not as "fine grain" vs normal audition and the sound renders it more "metallic" (ie black&white vs oled tv color) but I got the two last high tone freq disabled because it was giving me severe headaches (we still dont know why it happens) and i know i'm not the only one with some frequencies disabled.
And yes, I've been among the first to receive a cochlear implant, considering the first ones were delivered 30 year ago, at the time I had one, there were only 200 people in the world that had it, 10 per year in my country (compared to today with almost 1 mil people through the world...)
How unbelievably heartwarming. Thank you to everyone who makes this possible.
This made me cry I became deaf in my twenties after birth of my twins ,I have hard time hearing with aids clarity etc but the little ones hearing sound for first time! hope hearing aids or real ear measurements improve worldwide for these little ones
What caused you to become deaf? Was it an ear infection after your children were born?? 😮
No I had a epidural and have heard that could have caused it , thanks@@amymahoney3513
For ANYONE to hear for the first time after years of not hearing anything, brings joy and happiness to my heart. For someone that has heard nothing their whole life to hear someone say hello to them or to just talk to them is a break though in medical science. To not have one of your five senses and then to have it again or for the first time is amazing. Videos like these bring tears of happiness to me and I'm sure many others as well.
Not every deaf people can benefit from cohclear implant
I would love to see these people hear music for the first time. This is crazy cool to watch.
"and the lights make noise. I didn't know that the lights make noise"
How we take things for granted, which are missing for so many in this world.
My loss of hearing is nothing compared to them as I use hearing aids on both ears so it's not too bad but I deeply feel for them to able hear again. I was really moved to see their joy with a couple of tears 😢! Really wish them happiness 😊 ❤
I was born hard of hearing from birth, and it's been a struggle. and very happy to see technology help these people
Man, I needed that cry. The universe works in beautiful ways!
I was deaf from 12-14 and after seven operations I was able to get my hearing back.
Truly Amazing! Watching this brings joy! So precious!
Prior to the late 20th century such marvelous technological advances were totally unheard of.
Underrated pun
That's the feeling of everything achieving you in few moments
It's so wonderful to see these young people overjoyed to be able to hear amazing to see and people who really care helping them.
From the age of when I was about two, I had 20% of my hearing on both ears all the way up until I turned 56 and then I got my hearing aids for the first time. I was absolutely amazed after all these years of all sounds I have been missing. I love music, now I can hear all of the instruments playing in a song.. I am 60 now from that moment, has changed my life forever.
Thanks to technology, engineering and doctors who made this possible with those were missing out.
I remember my daughter hearing the wind for the first time. She was laughing it made me cry.
Nur wenige Videos haben mich so berührt.
My friend was completely deaf and unable to speak -- what a difference this could have made to her when young. Sadly, she died without hearing any sound. She was the happiest person I have ever met !
I was having a rough day until I saw this. This makes everything better. Pure goodness
This is awesome! What a phenomenal use of technology and research to make this happen. You've positively helped so many lives ❤
A bit weird, however... If these girls never heard before. Then how do they know what people are saying. How can they SPEAK. They just figured it out on the first try?
I was lucky enough to get the surgery I needed when I was 11 years old. It can be a very traumatic experience to go through. For me hearing for the first time my emotions overwhelmed me. Trying to process what was going on was the scariest part. I thank God and the doctors to give me hearing again. I’m so happy for this young girl. Congratulations ❤️
Estos vídeos son muy emocionantes y deberían hacernos valorar cosas que damos por sentadas y no valoramos como simplemente oír ...ver a personas de todas las edades romper a llorar de emoción por oír es impresionante
I00% correct!
These videos make me cry every time
I always wonder how they can understand what is being said and how they can speak normally for the most part for the first time. Especially for those who have been deaf their whole life. It's quite amazing.
understanding must be linked to reading lips and patterns, then reproducing those patterns. But I agree, that's a amazing process to witness
If you notice, most of them lost their hearing. If you are deaf from birth you can't speak. You can make sounds but not words. I worked with a guy who could only make sounds. I feel so bad now, not being friendlier to him, not that I was unfriendly, but imagine not be able to just communicate with people. How lonely that must be.
@@jakerazmataz852it make sense what you said, but the headline ist that they hear sound for the first time and that is imposible🤷🏽♂️
@@jakerazmataz852 Some people who are deaf from birth can speak if they're taught how to but they all speak in the same strange way. The teacher will have them touch their throats so they can feel the vibrations. I remember seeing two deaf people where one could read lips and speak in this strange but understandable way and the other couldn't read lips and could only use sign language. So the first could live in the hearing world okay but the second one could only communicate with people who knew sign language.
Hello 🙋🏻♂️ I am deaf and I would like to help you solve your 'riddle'.
First, the title of the video is wrong; the people who react by speaking when activating the cochlear implant are because they previously heard using classic hearing aids and developed oral communication well. Now, when a person who was born with a hearing loss of more than 85% and who did not have speech therapy is implanted, he or she will emit "strange" sounds, not words. For this case of a patient, activating an implant will involve hearing through first time.😊 Although at first it is very strange to listen, everything sounds very robotic, which is why therapy is required.
Sorry for the translation, I don't speak English very well. Regards.
Scientists, engineers, doctors, nurses, parents, friends... all working together can accomplish amazing things!
As adorable and as heartwarming as these clips are... it does make me wonder how a person who's hearing sounds for the first time is able to comprehend them -- wouldn't they have only been communicating via sign language and written text? Feeling kinda dense right now.
The ones that appear to quickly adjust is because they have lost their hearing after already being able to talk.
What a great idea you have given deaf people a new life. Everyone can't help but cry. It's a valuable opportunity and innovation. Just think, 30-40 years ago, there was no technology that could help them. It's amazing.♥♥
THANKS FOR SHARING, TEARS OF JOY 😂
Our pleasure!
Thank you for this. Bringing smiles to people is truly noble work.
I was deaf when I was little. My mom had no idea. Thought I was quiet. My kindergarten teacher told her I was deaf. She could care less. What lucky kids.
Hope you have arrived at a better place in life.
It´s beautiful that some of us are working so hard to help the ones in need. We who have all these wonderful things take them for granted just going about our day...Whats more beautiful than seeing a person light up like that from joy...Making others happy and helping them should be our priority, and it should make us feel good as well...I feel like so many people do not understand this but are only thinking about themselves...Thank god for those who care...
Como deve ser emocionante poder ouvir pela primeira vez. Viva a tecnologia e profissionais dedicados em restabelecer algo tão precioso em nossas vidas.
There aren't words for how much joy this brings me!!!
Science and technology can make people so happy that they cry. Religion can't do that.
We learned to speak first. We learned by hearing speech and our brains begin to make the connections between these sounds we are hearing and things in the world. We begin to be able to have organized thoughts through the inner monolog which I still think everyone has even if theirs is just so quiet, they don't recognize it. I've seen deaf people before asked, how do they think? How does their internal monolog work. For them it was a visual thing, they think in sign language by seeing the signs in their head and are able to have coherent thought that way.
Typically a few years later we begin to learn to read. We learn to associate these letters with specific sounds and words.
Literate deaf people learn to associate a word with a sign, and then can learn that a certain arrangement of letter also mean that word they associate with a sigh. They can also get pretty good at lip reading and can associate the lip movements with a word they know through sign language.
How are they able or are they able to immediately associate the sounds they have never heard before with their first language, sign language?
Like they can picture a duck in their mind, we know what they look like. They know how to say "duck" in sign language, then they learn to associate the letters d-u-c-k with the animal. But they have never heard the word spoken outloud before. Are they able to associate the sounds they hear to words? Or are they hearing the sounds of speech, they can't yet associate the sounds to meaning, and they are still relying on lip reading to derrive the meaning from the speech they hear? I mean I imagine it wouldn't take very long, it's not like trying to learn a completely new language, they know English (or their native spoken language) they know the words, they just don't yet know how the words sound. Maybe someone can help me try to understand.
I was actually asking myself the same question. There is no way they can understand imediatly the meaning of the sound so i guess they answer according to the lips but they can still prounonce words correctly so i guess those one are the one who are not completly deaf or get deaf later in the childwood. Cause you can see some of them talking and some don't answer with voice, so i guess it's not the same level of deaf.
All these videos with "DEAF PEOPLE HEARING SOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME !" is only giving people false hope... The problem is that if you was born deaf your brain has not developed the ability to proses sound and because of that you can not get your hearing later in life either because your brain can not learn this later. YOU have to have had hearing early in life long enough for the brain to develop this ability for this to work,,..,+
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