A TINY baby, gurgling with pleasure; a heavily tattooed young woman burying her face in her hands. Videos of formerly deaf people, overcome by emotion as they hear for the first time, are . It is easy to see why: they vividly capture the moment that someone joins the world of the hearing.
But to some, such videos can seem misleading, if not , in the impression they give of a miracle cure. Not everyone can use the cochlear implants featured and those who do sometimes struggle to make sense of what they hear. A growing number…



