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Professor Graeme Clark pioneered the Multi-channel Cochlear Implant for severe-to profound deafness: the first clinically successful sensory interface between the world and human consciousness, and the first major advance in helping deaf children and adults to communicate in a world of sound.
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Sep 3, 2024 · His invention, the cochlear implant, has changed the lives of over 300,000 people around the world, with more than half of those individuals being children. Clark successfully created the first sensory connection linking the external world with human consciousness.
Professor Graeme Clark AC pioneered one of Australia’s greatest bioengineering achievements, the multi-channel cochlear implant, the first device to allow severely-to-profoundly deaf people to understand speech.
Career. Development of multi-channel cochlear implants. Clark hypothesized that hearing, particularly for speech, might be reproduced in people with deafness if the damaged or underdeveloped ear were bypassed, and the auditory nerve electrically stimulated to reproduce the coding of sound.
Our story started more than four decades ago when Professor Graeme Clark pioneered the world’s first multi-channel cochlear implant and created an entirely new treatment for hearing loss. Today, we continue Professor Clark’s work to help people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a life full of hearing.
Professor Clark’s auditory brain research demonstrated why a single-channel cochlear implant, which was being promoted at the time would not lead to adequate speech understanding. He hypothesized that the place coding of frequency would be required.
Professor Graeme Clark’s discoveries led to the first multi-channel cochlear implant to bring hearing and speech effectively and safely to severely and profoundly deaf children.