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Zach: Football

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When you think of football, you may not associate hearing technology with the uniform and gear it takes to play the game. Zachary, a high schooler who was born with hearing loss, talks about what it is like to play football with his hearing aids. "The helmets that we have, it actually doesn't bother my hearing aids. There's no padding along the ear right here, so it just slides right on. No problems at all.

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