cochlear

Jodie, who is profoundly deaf and was fitted with a cochlear implant at a young age, credits their support for shaping who she is today.

Faith, also a sixth-grader at Reed, has a hearing aid and cochlear implants.

Speaking ahead of the final, Ghouri said her time on Strictly had been "an absolute dream, especially bedazzling my cochlear implant".

Their findings, published in Developmental Science, show that a higher proportion of shape-based nouns in a child's vocabulary shortly after cochlear implantation was associated with better language development for the next three years.

She was diagnosed with profound hearing loss at the age of one and has a cochlear implant to help her perceive sound.