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| Preface | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Laying the Foundation | |
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| From Normal to Deaf in Twenty-five Years | |
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| Cochlear Implants-Surgery and Activation | |
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| Capabilities and Limitations | |
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| Transformation | |
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| Twenty-four Days of Silence | |
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| March 14, 2008: What I've Learned So Far-Five Days without Sound | |
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| March 18, 2008: What I've Learned So Far-Nine Days without Sound | |
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| March 21, 2008: Pre-Op Testing | |
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| March 23, 2008: The Secrets of the Broken CI World | |
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| March 26, 2008: Adventures and Exhaustion | |
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| Replacing the Cochlear Implant | |
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| April 2, 2008: Activation Day-I Can Hear Again! | |
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| April 4, 2008: Reaping with Joy-The Wedding | |
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| April 10, 2008: From Silence to Sound-One Week | |
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| April 12, 2008: Compare and Contrast | |
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| April 28, 2008: Some New Tricks | |
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| May 18, 2008: Doing "Better"-Gold, Silver, Bronze | |
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| May 20, 2008: Moving Toward Bilateral | |
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| May 31, 2008: Patience and Piano | |
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| June 8, 2008: TV as Therapy | |
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| June 12, 2008: B and B and Yosemite | |
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| July 6, 2008: Three-month Real-life Evaluation | |
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| July 10, 2008: Official Three-month CI and Bilateral Evaluation | |
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| July 20, 2008: Wake-up Calls | |
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| July 26, 2008: The Persistence of Memory | |
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| August 4, 2008: The Ultimate Computer | |
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| August 14, 2008: Behaving Myself | |
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| August 24, 2008: Arts and Crafts | |
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| August 25, 2008: The Sand and the Sea | |
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| Bilateral Cochlear Implants | |
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| August 31, 2008: Thinking Bilateral | |
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| September 7, 2008: Out of the Comfort Zone | |
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| September 18, 2008: Bilaterally Enabled | |
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| October 1, 2008: Waiting | |
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| October 2, 2008: Bilateral Activation! | |
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| October 4, 2008: Two Ears/Two Days | |
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| October 7, 2008: Stereo | |
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| October 10, 2008: Days of Awe | |
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| October 17, 2008: Finding Happiness | |
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| October 23, 2008: Revelations | |
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| October 26, 2008: Better in Noise | |
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| October 31, 2008: Playing for Real | |
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| November 25, 2008: Practice and Progress | |
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| December 7, 2008: Intermediate Level | |
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| December 11, 2008: Sound Decisions | |
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| December 22, 2008: Small Surprises | |
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| January 3, 2009: Matched Marvels | |
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| January 11, 2009: One Good Turn | |
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| January 16, 2009: Orientation | |
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| January 19, 2009: Born Yesterday | |
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| February 1, 2009: The Sand and the Sea Reprise | |
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| February 16, 2009: The Visit | |
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| February 23, 2009: Directionality Redux | |
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| March 3, 2009: Hidden Agendas | |
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| April 4, 2009: Tears of Joy | |
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| April 26, 2009: Lasting Impressions | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| How a Cochlear Implant Works | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |