Successful cochlear implant changes boy's life


Father Ong Cheng Hock, (left) 51, and mother Annie Khoo, 49, putting on the external processor for bilateral cochlear implant recipient Calvin Ong, 12, (centre) after the Loh Guan Lye Specialists Centre Better Hearing and Speech Awareness campaign's press conference at the centre in George Town on Wednesday (April 23).//Chan Boon Kai/The Star/(23rd April 2014)

WEARING a Boy Scout uniform and smiling widely, Calvin Ong was as lively as any 12-year-old.

The only feature that differentiates him and his peers would be the small device behind both his ears but even then, it is hardly visible.

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