Archive: Toledo Rocket Success Stories
By Paul Helgren, Associate Athletic Director for Communications
TOLEDO, Ohio – Larry Stephens remembers the first time he could hear the world as it really was. Believe it or not, he didn't like it. Let's just say the change wasn't quite what he was expecting.
Born with a hearing impairment that was gradually making him go deaf, the University of Toledo wide receiver was six years old when he was fitted with his first cochlear implant, a miracle of modern medicine that has opened the world of sound to nearly 750,000 people worldwide.