In 1986, after attending a loud rock music gig and developed tinnitus which affected the nature of his residual hearing.
A wireless device used by people who use their residual hearing has two main components.
A special surgical technique is the key to preserving the residual hearing of the patient.
In most routine cochlear implant surgeries, any residual hearing will likely be destroyed.
Pride uses his 5% residual hearing to help him speak and is a fluent lip-reader.
Cochlear implants are rarely used in ears that have a functional level of residual hearing.
The implant destroys all residual hearing a child might have.
Though accurate hearing tests can be done on infants, it is impossible to determine how well those children might use their residual hearing.
She taught children until last year, using the "auditory-verbal" method, in which the residual hearing of the deaf aids in speech development.
This is meant to protect against the possibility that surgical complications could cause the loss of whatever residual hearing they have.