A Deaf Mute Hears

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 41, 26 April 1929, Page 8

A Deaf Mute Hears

3YA Reports Strange Case [STANCES have previously been recorded of the great blessing which a radio receiving set is to elderly people who are afflicted with deafness, but the crowning instance, in which a deaf mute is concerned, is reported from 3YA. Among the visitors to that station recently was a man and his daughter, a girl of 11 or 12 years of age, who had been deaf and dumb from birth. The operator at 3YA was listeningin to Wellington and on the suggestion of 3YA_ Station Manager the ear *phones were put on the head of the girl, She listened intently and for the first time in her life heard something through her ears. She had heard music.