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Georgina was diagnosed as severely deaf just after she was born... (Original Post) demmiblue Mar 2020 OP
That is beautiful. CatMor Mar 2020 #1
+1,000,000 Canoe52 Mar 2020 #13
What a wonder this baby and her utter delight. emmaverybo Mar 2020 #2
Aww, I am so happy for her! FM123 Mar 2020 #3
She loves the sound of her own voice. LOL! Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #4
Oh, baby! God bless you! eom sprinkleeninow Mar 2020 #5
Aw, so wonderful! How sweet. crickets Mar 2020 #6
. rocktivity Mar 2020 #7
Love! cate94 Mar 2020 #8
That was a treat! renate Mar 2020 #9
Awwwwww... And the whole world opens up! calimary Mar 2020 #10
Humans start out so wonder-full. Bless the caregivers and engineers that help... FailureToCommunicate Mar 2020 #11
That filled my heart with some much-needed joy! Dem2theMax Mar 2020 #12
You can see she's realizing one of those sounds is her own voice and lunatica Mar 2020 #14

FailureToCommunicate

(14,014 posts)
11. Humans start out so wonder-full. Bless the caregivers and engineers that help...
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 11:26 PM
Mar 2020

them discover that potential.

This year is the 40th anniversary of the start of closed captioning for the deaf, developed at WGBH Boston TV station 1980. And later, DVS, Descriptive Video for blind and visually impaired audiences was pioneered there.

https://www.wgbh.org/foundation/what-we-do/media-access-group

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
14. You can see she's realizing one of those sounds is her own voice and
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 11:32 PM
Mar 2020

that she can control it.

If you’ve ever seen how kids act when they can hear the echo of their own voice, which sometimes happens in certain buildings, you can see how puzzled they first look and how quickly they catch on that it’s their voice and that they can control it. It’s a lot of fun to watch. It can get pretty loud.

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