Babies’ with profound hearing loss who received cochlear implants to improve their hearing soon babbled as often as their hearing peers, an MU researcher found. Photo By Bjorn Knetsch from The Netherlands (2009_01_20_2352 Uploaded by tabercil) Wikimedia Commons.
Mary Fagan says babies are motivated to babble based on hearing themselves, which reinforces the importance of early interventions for children with profound hearing loss.