it tends to reactivate a sense of hearing date back a long time in 79 t. any tell me and scientists tried to stimulate his own auditory with electrical current and all the heard of the sound of boiling water. nowadays hearing aids have greatly improved but they're of no help if the year is not directly right the so-called cochlea but there's help with cochlear implants. i was more or less death from birth but that disability hasn't prevented me from helping people in distress younger he has a hearing impairment but for the 24 year old that's no reason not to work as a volunteer firefighter since the age of 4 he's had a couple here in the plant and on the other side he was a hearing aid. worker here it is the hearing aid is more for the background and natural sound it makes music sound far more

natural and nicer. whereas the cochlear implant is specialized in making voices understandable. at the same time though it worsens the quality of music for example but. it sounds all tinny or mechanical that's how people describe it in my case i have a combination of the 2 sort of his i should be funded by and it works. young has been a member of the local volunteer fire brigade for 14 years now. despite the herring age and cochlear implant sometimes understanding people is difficult if not impossible but he has good work arounds. i know they get really loud out on the line with all the rotary pumps and machines running. so i need my colleagues to speak loudly and clearly and also raise their hand when calling for us to start the water. it's the same with other orders. so that i can at least see which direction

they're coming from according to me determining direction is difficult with a hearing impairment. so how does the implant enable him to understand spoken language. as the name implies the implant takes on the function of the cochlea the spiral shape by when the tonight pulls us to hear it used as a sound processor that fits behind the air it transmits the sound it picks up to the implant. the implant is also behind but under the skin the internal device converts the sound into electrical signals which are transmitted to the order of the order train if then transmits the signals to the brain this enables the wearer to hear sounds even if they can't understand everything. mccoy to. it allows you to hear sounds. like a voice but that's not the same as understanding what you've heard. with language

we can tell it's words but we can't necessarily understand them. sometimes all we hear is that somebody is talking and what not exactly what they're saying and that's the difference between hearing and understanding. young makes no effort to hide his hearing impairment he used to feel embarrassed especially because the hearing it's a visible but he's learned to live life with confidence and he wants to help other people with disabilities do the same. young ones of talking community for young people with herring and ham and the participants can share their experiences online and they also organize regular meet ups. if you mention the program we want to raise people's awareness about hearing disability and show people that it's no reason to treat us any differently. just like everybody else except for our hearing impairment. a lot of young people. have

a disability get marginalized or even bullied at school and don't have many friends . but in this community they do have friends here you're welcome and are accepted just the way you are up to peer. competitive racing is a challenge in itself and alex blind face is another hurdle without his copier implant he can't hear a thing. he's studying mechanical engineering which like running requires discipline and insurance. as he toils away at the computer his racing game is already laid out for this often means meat. when it comes to preparing for a competition alex has a set routine his has to cooks for 9 and a half minutes and has to be on the table exactly 4 hours before his race.

alex has a cochlear implant when he was 11 months old he contract admitting giantess and lost his hearing. i only know the details from my parents' stories there were one or 2 very bad nights where it wasn't clear if i survived fortunately i only only lost my hearing. when he competes in races for hearing impaired athletes he's not permitted to use the implant taking him into what he calls the silent world he can't hear his own breathing or the noise in the stadium. this is. as awful it's a different kind of runnels because specially when it comes to racing tactics and say someone's trying to overtake you but you missed that split 2nd because you didn't hear them coming up behind you because that can make the difference between winning and losing actually and it was he going to show thanks to make sure that

doesn't happen alex prefers to start fast and hold the lead like in this 3000 meters steeplechase race he takes gold after the race he switches to sign language for the interview with an interpreter. there's a kilometer it is real 5 was too fast it was like ok and i kept getting more and more tired the last 2 laps were tough i really had to dig him says she was to bison . that is next meet alex is competing against athletes without disabilities so this time he can weigh his culpeper implant it's harder to hold the pace today and he crosses the line in 8. i but he and his coach a happy with his time which is what counts most in pre-season training. i think i likes checks in with his friends and supporters but he's already thinking ahead to his next big gold going for gold at the 2021 definite pics in brazil to

prevent injury he'll do a few cool down rounds then it will be time to rest and recuperate. alex ply wants to stay a front runner whether he can here or not. i. in good shape your weekly health show on t w covers many aspects of health care will look at what's new in medical treatment nutrition fitness and beauty. we talk about these topics in depth with the experts and the given. you the chance to pose your own questions so do get in touch. some viewers have asked us to discuss the topic off. and i'm the perfect guy for this because i love myself fairly much and this is

a good thing because self-love and self esteem is very important for a healthy life but an extreme form of self laugh is called pathological narcissism this is when people have an unfair lated image of themselves and they also like empathy and this is a big challenge for friends partners and colleagues and often a breeding ground for conflict. click post share and like. becoming increasingly self obsessed and could social media share in the blame. that question 1st emerged around 15 years ago as social media you searched worldwide psychologists began to ask if it was promoting a global epidemic of narcissism. a team of american researchers decided to study this seeming trend they analyzed surveys conducted on college students between 19792006. and found that narcissistic personality traits appeared to increase

during those years. the youngest cohort born after $1080.00 seemed to be more self-absorbed these millennial zal generation y. as they're often called were the 1st to grow up with the internet. an inflated self image due to the internet with siri held instinctive appeal. soon enough generation y. had been dubbed generation me. headlines locked it up but it turned out that research on narcissism wasn't all that watertight yet the questionnaires used to assess narcissistic traits have been constantly updated and changed. that make it difficult to compare the validity of the results over time but even tests asking the same questions in the same period of time delivered skewed results. traits are also connected to. people and especially.

relationships. raising children. the center of the universe. 'd still gaining that experience so their world is more likely to revolve around themselves. study had another problem. difference they detected was fairly small to begin with and the researchers had overlooked another factor it was the women who replied with more robust self-esteem so perhaps it was all down to girl. generation. and the evidence that young people today are more narcissistic isn't conclusive either a long term study in germany found nothing of the salt it found that young adults some more committed to socialist years of the public good and they've taken their activism online like in the fridays for future campaign and hashtags urging young people to help quash the coronavirus. you want more news about health and medicine

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