{"id":28510,"date":"2014-09-05T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T20:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=28510"},"modified":"2014-09-05T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T20:28:19","slug":"for-the-hearing-impaired-discovery-may-have-wings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/for-the-hearing-impaired-discovery-may-have-wings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Hearing Impaired \u2026 Discovery May Have Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the Hearing Impaired\u00a0\u2026<\/span>\u00a0Discovery May Have Wings<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Jack Douglas Jr.<\/p>\n

August 18, 2014<\/p>\n

NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) \u2013 Emily Doughty has an infectious smile, a bright outlook on life\u2026\u00a0and a problem hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just a girl who has a problem with my ears,\u201d said Emily, a 17-year-old senior at Boswell High School in Fort Worth. \u201cI\u2019ve had 13 surgeries.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had hearing<\/span>\u00a0aids constantly. It\u2019s just challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n

For every 1,000 people born in the United States, between two to three have total or significant hearing loss, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.<\/p>\n

Emily is one of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I do feel left out on conversations and jokes,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, people treat you different.\u201d<\/p>\n

After all of the surgeries, beginning when she was 4 or 5, she can hear adequately in one ear, but still relies on a hearing aid in the other. And that can be\u00a0rattling<\/span>, even painful, when that hearing device picks up unfiltered noises \u2013 a door slamming, a crowded restaurant, someone getting close.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever you hug someone\u2026 the ringing sound, you feel like a robot,\u201d Emily said, in an emotional interview with CBS 11.<\/p>\n

But help may soon be\u00a0on the\u00a0way, in flight, ready to land, in the form of a direct descendent of the common housefly that is native to Texas.<\/p>\n

So, if you come across one, as it prepares to dive\u00a0in to<\/span>\u00a0the food you left out the night before, don\u2019t bother picking up a fly swatter\u00a0\u2026<\/span>because it will hear you coming before you finish your swing.<\/p>\n

\u201cScientists discovered that this particular fly was locating crickets based on the sound emitted by the cricket,\u201d said Neal Hall, an acoustics scientist at the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was puzzling to scientists as far back as forty years ago,\u201d Neal said in an interview with CBS 11.<\/p>\n

Only recently, Neal and a handful of other researchers across the country have been working to replicate the hearing organ of this specific fly, known formally as the \u201cOrmia ochracea.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what gives this fly super hearing \u2013 able to focus on what it needs to hear, and filter out everything else?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fly has something that resembles a teeter-totter, something you might see on a children\u2019s playground,\u201d Neal said. \u201cSound travels across it.<\/p>\n

It hits one side just a split second before the other, and that\u2019s enough to tip the teeter-totter just enough for it to go\u00a0in to<\/span>\u00a0a rocking motion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And that rocking motion, Neal added, is what helps the fly determine the direction in which the sound is coming from.<\/p>\n

A new hearing aid that utilizes the \u201cteeter-totter\u201d method is expected to be available, and affordable, within the next two years.<\/p>\n

There are also hopes that the fly ear replication will be used to improve how smart phones pick up conversations, and that it will give the military and police a valuable tool to pick up the slightest sound of danger \u2013 like a sniper hiding in the dark.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, what you may see as a nasty critter about to pounce on your pie, Emily, instead, sees as hope that one day the ringing will stop when she wants to give someone a hug.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s real exciting,\u201d she said with that smile. \u201cMaybe this will work. They\u2019ve been trying to find new stuff\u2026<\/span>and I\u2019m just hoping that one hearing aid will help people like me, people older than me, and little kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

SOURCE:<\/p>\n

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For the Hearing Impaired\u00a0\u2026\u00a0Discovery May Have Wings By Jack Douglas Jr. August 18, 2014 NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) \u2013 Emily Doughty has an infectious smile, a bright outlook on life\u2026\u00a0and a problem hearing. \u201cI\u2019m just a girl who has…<\/p>\n

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