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Yes. She is quite amazing. That allophone thing is also pretty amazing. She has TED talk apparently also.

I am wondering if she has "internal hearing" IOW her external hearing apparatus is MIA but she can hear things like her speech via internal bone conduction?

Sixty Minutes did a piece about a particular famous college (that happens to be here in the DC area).

Human interest stuff about the campus.

And they had a segment showing a modern dance class. Lovely lithe young ladies in black leotards pirouetting to jazzy music with flawless grace like you would see at a the same class at any university...except it kicked in to you the viewer that the university they were featuring was...Gallaudet (college for the deaf). They cut to old veteran dance instructor guy who said "I don't know HOW they do it. Maybe they feel the rhythm through the soles of their feet".

For some reason that segment still always sticks in my mind decades later.

And it was in that same piece that I learned that it was Gallaudet that invented that banging drum thing for college football. The players feel/hear it through their feet so it was invented so the deaf players do football plays on agreed upon counts of the beat.

But the Scottish lady has a TED talk in which she explains how she "hears" the sound of percussion instrument (that horizontal xylophone like thing) through her finger bones.

Reminds me of something you, Blabby, might know about. Remember "the bone phone"? Back in the early 80s it was advertised in some magazines. It was a Walkman type thing but it attached to your body in a way that it use the bones of your skeleton to transmit the music to you rather than ear phones. The ads made great claims of sound quality. Apparently it did not catch on though. Ever hear of it?

Bone conduction headphones.
They're making a comeback.

Oh. Interesting.

Now I think of it, that's probably why Authur wears headphones on his head and not on his ears.
Doh!