{"id":129668,"date":"2026-03-04T20:53:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129668\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T20:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:53:43","slug":"cochlear-implants-enhance-the-lives-of-three-kids-in-one-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129668\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochlear Implants Enhance the Lives of Three Kids in One Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates for cochlear implants are thoroughly evaluated, including being seen by a surgeon. If everything checks out, they can receive the two-part implant in a procedure that takes two to three hours and go home the same day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe implant itself gets surgically inserted behind the ear, and the speech processor is attached outside by a magnet,\u201d Dr. Chennupati says. \u201cThe implant jump-starts the cochlea, the organ of hearing, while the processor picks up the sound and codes it. The two devices work together to tell what electrical signals to send to the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several weeks after the surgery, the patient meets with an audiologist to have the implant activated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe check on the surgical site and assess the fit,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvhn.org\/doctors\/barry-veet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Veet, AUD<\/a>, with LVPG Pediatric Ear, Nose and Throat, who worked with all three of the family\u2019s children. \u201cWe turn on the implant and adjust the volume to make sure there is sound awareness \u2013 you don\u2019t get speech clarity right away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candidates for cochlear implants are thoroughly evaluated, including being seen by a surgeon. If everything checks out, they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-129668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}