{"id":138532,"date":"2018-06-07T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=138532"},"modified":"2018-07-05T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T20:10:25","slug":"cochlear-implant-restores-just-hearing-navy-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/06\/cochlear-implant-restores-just-hearing-navy-veteran\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochlear Implant Restores More Than Just Hearing for Navy Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing loss is the third most common health problem in the U.S., and it can affect the quality of your life and relationships. That\u2019s what was happening to James Bascetta, a U.S. Navy veteran, who suffered from severe hearing loss. He was becoming socially isolated because he could no longer converse with his wife and family. Thanks to a cochlear implant and UConn Health\u2019s audiology team, James is hearing sounds he hasn\u2019t heard in years \u2013 including his wife\u2019s Polish accent which he missed the most.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Cochlear Implant Restores More Than Just Hearing for Navy Veteran\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t884zXyjahU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bascetta, a U.S. Navy veteran, suffered from severe hearing loss but thanks to a cochlear implant and UConn Health\u2019s audiology team, James is hearing sounds he hasn\u2019t heard in years.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":138536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1867],"class_list":["post-138532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 14:54:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/138536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138532"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=138532"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=138532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}