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Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear by nsxwolf on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @11:59PM (#39113816)
Never fully catching up sounds a lot different than "window for learning spoken language is permanently shut". Am I missing something?
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Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear by mlyle on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:08AM (#39113857)
"Permanently shut" for everyone is probably an exaggeration.

A better description "very, very few of those [with hearing restored] after age 5, who had never had any hearing before, develop anything close to normal spoken language skills."

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