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Old 04-04-2009, 08:42 AM   #2 (permalink)
Hear Again
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deafdude,

It does no good to hear environmental sounds if a person can't understand speech (unless a person accepts being able to hear environmental sounds only).

Besides, the more environmental sounds a person hears, the more difficult it is to understand speech in noise.
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