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9-year-old boy gets his hearing back after six years thanks to bone-conduction implant & iPhone app

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<p>Apple VP of <span class="s1">environment, policy and social initiatives Lisa Jackson has  shared (https://twitter.com/lisapjackson/status/756480092952416256) a story via <a href="http://abc7news.com/health/new-tech-stanford-help-morgan-hill-boy-get-hearing-back/1437705/" target="_blank">ABC7 News[/url] about a nine-year-old boy whose hearing was restored thanks to a new type of bone-conduction hearing aid controlled by a companion iPhone app. Highlighting accessibility and inclusion, Jackson wrote that ‘technology can transform lives [and] 9-year old Joshua is a great example.’</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Joshua Gomez started losing his hearing at the age of three, and a succession of surgeries over a five-year period all failed. Conventional hearing-aids couldn’t help with his particular condition, but the Children’s Hearing Center at Stanford finally found a solution … </span></p>
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