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Giving the Gift of Hearing – and Speech
… boys were talking – that Alan and Jessica Davis of Bethlehem began to worry. A subsequent hearing test at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Muhlenberg confirmed their fears: the twins had little or no ability to hear in either ear. Today, thanks to cochlear implants and careful follow-up care from the team of specialists at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital, the boys are hearing within the normal range while wearing their cochlear implants. And they have learned to speak “in the cutest little voices.” Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital was the first place in the Lehigh Valley where children could receive cochlear implants, and still is one of the few …