For Ruthie Chaney it was a rhythmic "click, click, click, click" from a nearby clock. For Stacy Cockrell, it was "wah, wah, wah," which, thanks to stellar lip-reading skills, she was able to interpret ...
The new leader of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' Department of Otolaryngology will be the only department chairman of that discipline in the nation with a cochlear implant, the ...
Robert "Bob" F. Dornhoffer, 88, of St. Joseph, passed away Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at the Brookdale-Leawood Memory Care Center, Leawood, Kan. He was born April 29, 1926 in St. Joseph, son of Bessie ...
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Audiologist Kristen Dawson covers her mouth so firefighter Dennis Dornhoffer isn't tempted to read her lips. As Dawson speaks, electronic pulses are created and sent into the St.