Austin Chapman was born profoundly deaf. Hearing aids helped some, but music -- its full range of pitches and tones -- remained undecipherable. As Chapman explains, "I've never understood it. My whole ...

Los Angeles-based filmmaker Austin Chapman got his first pair of hearing aids when he was 11 months old. Diagnosed with profound hearing loss, Austin has spent much of the past 24 years in silence. A ...

Austin Chapman says he was "born profoundly deaf" and has never understood music--or the people moved by it. But that changed two weeks ago, when he tried a new pair of hearing aids for the first time ...

ORANGE – Austin Chapman sat in the doctor’s office, his new hearing aids snugly in place. For the first time in his life, he could properly hear. A cacophony of sound attacked Chapman that morning, ...

LOS ANGELES — Austin Chapman figured his short films must be pretty good because they’ve been sweeping major awards on the independent film festival circuit the past couple of years. He was never ...

My favourite story of this week was about Austin Chapman, a young Californian filmmaker who, thanks to a state-of-the-art hearing aid, is now able to hear for the first time in his life. It's ...

Austin Chapman was born profoundly deaf. Hearing aids helped some, but music -- its full range of pitches and tones -- remained indecipherable. As Chapman explains, "I've never understood it. My whole ...