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Murcia University is conducting research on language in deaf children with cochlear implants in a project led by Professor of General Linguistics Sonia Madrid.
The cochlear implant is a voluntary treatment of congenital profound deafness that allows children who have easier access to oral communication.
The benefit of the implant begins where the limits of the traditional prosthesis, and its operating principle is to create an auditory sensation by transforming surrounding sounds and noise into electrical energy that directly stimulate the auditory nerve fibers via electrodes surgically implanted.
The electrodes transmit the electrical message to the auditory nerve through the spinal ganglion cells, and then to the cochlear nuclei and auditory cortex.
In the Region of Murcia these operations are performed in the hospital "Virgen de la Arrixaca" since 2001, although not yet have enough information about the linguistic development of these children and, more specifically, its pragmatic development .
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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