Science of Ears: How to Fix Them When They Break

S.K. elementary students find out how their ears work!

Eileen Jones, President & Founder of the Gift of Hearing Foundation, visited S.K.'s elementary schools to talk about some devices that have been developed to help people when they go deaf. Sometimes these devices are implanted right into our bodies to help us operate our different parts — turning humans into “cyborgs”!!! The specialized skills needed to support such innovative devices, however, are in short supply. There is a certain future for those who would like to research and engineer miracle technologies to improve what we have — and to think up and make new devices.
Hearing is our connection to people (where sight is our connection to things). Hearing and speech go together: hearing loss = speech loss. For more information, please visit the Gift of Hearing Foundation website.