Auditory Verbal Therapy Paper

could you imagine a world where you aren’t able to hear a sound? Well, for hundreds of thousands of people this is unfortunately their reality. However, with advances in technology people are now able to hear for the first time and let me tell you, that’s certainly music to my ears. A new piece of medical technology known as the cochlear implant is a life changer that helps the deaf to live a normal life.

Passages A & B have different views on what would work best for the Deaf people, but they both want want a positive outcome for the Deaf community. Passage A mainly talks about how the cochlear implants do not benefit deaf people and how the permanent effects from it can be a disadvantage for the implant patient in the deaf community. “Implanted children would "end up trapped between two worlds: they can't live the way hearing people can, and yet they won't have grown up in the deaf community, using ASL" (Zimmer 85)”. The author helps the reader understand the Deaf community rather then understand the medical view of cochlear implants.

Most doctors recommend that children with cochlear implant only use spoken language as a method of communication so they can maximize the benefits from the cochlear implant. However, the popular method of communication for children with cochlear implants is total communication which is the integration of oral communication and ASL. Although Heather Artinian was fluent in ASL before she received her cochlear implant, she was able to communicate with hearing and deaf people through both ASL and spoken language after years of intensive speech therapy (Aronson, Sound and Fury: Six Years Later). When cochlear implant users take it off, they cannot hear any sounds so they are technically still deaf. Even though they are able to hear sounds, cochlear implant recipients will not be able to identify themselves as hearing individuals. When they bridge the gap between the deaf and hearing world, they can still be a part of both cultures without defining themselves as a part of only one culture (TedX: The Heather World). Therefore, the cochlear implant can be a great device for deaf people who want to stay in the Deaf community but still be able to take advantage of additional opportunities in the hearing

In today’s society there is an ongoing debate of weather children who are deaf should receive cochlear implants. A cochlear implant is a device that takes sound wave and changes the waves into electrical activity for the brain to interpret. Wire called electrodes are surgically implanted into the cochlear nerve which receives a signal from the microphone attached to the transmitter and speech processor. The microphone captures the sound from the environment and the speech processor filters the noise versus speech. Then the transmitter sends an electrical signal through the electrodes to stimulate the cochlear nerve. Every person has a different thought depending on their experiences in their life whether deaf children should receive cochlear

There are many things that people in the hearing world take for granted every day, such as verbal communication, using a telephone or something as simple as the feeling you get when your favorite song comes on the radio. To a person that has been completely immersed in the deaf community, it may be easy to view the sense of sound as unnecessary. As a member of the haring community it would seem nearly impossible to live a day without sound. Cochlear implants are devices that help a person who is deaf gain hearing to some degree, and in some cases nearly full hearing. This new technology has become very controversial throughout both the hearing, and the deaf world.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy helps the patient establish a plan of treatment and takes action to prevent relapse. The therapist will work with the patient by isolating the root cause(s) of the addiction. In addition, to prevent a relapse the patient will be equipped with relapse-prevention training. Relapse-prevention training is where the patient will keep track of their additive patterns. Once the patterns are acknowledged, the patient can become more aware of what triggers their cravings so they can make adjustments accordingly.

Deafness or hard of hearing, is defined by the medical society as a disability, but those who are diagnosed with the disability think otherwise. They think of themselves as a community, embrace it as an identity, or a culture with their own language, sign language, and they believe their community is being threaten. They label themselves as a minority endangered of being wiped out because of one leading cause, cochlear implants. Those serious about their ideals of their community see cochlear implants as a threat, because cochlear implants are considered as cure. Countless number of controversies over cochlear implants have been brought up, but the Deaf community should see cochlear implants as gift for patients rather than an extreme threat.

This article "I Have a Child With a Cochlear Implant in My Preschool Classroom. Now, What?" by Carrie A. Davenport and Sheila R. Albert-Morgan dealt with the issue of exploring the fact that although cochlear implant technology is progressing rapidly through the years, there is however still a lack of capacity at the school level. This article also provides awareness of what individualized education program (IEP) teams can practice while raising the learning skills of a deaf child who uses cochlear implants. The main focus of this article is to help teachers provide the best education for children who are deaf and use cochlear implants while in classrooms, by implementing ways teachers can provide the appropriate accommodations to their students,

In recent years attempts, have been made to break through the barriers between the deaf and the hearing world” (Groce, 104). The cochlear implant represents an effort to unite the deaf and hearing world, but deaf culture rejects it because technology symbolizes the establishment of a cultural barrier in deaf communities. For example, deaf children of hearing parents don’t consider themselves part of the deaf culture because they get the cochlear implant at a young age. As a result, these children do not learn about the deaft culture and are not expose to the deaf community.

Cochlear implants do not provide the high-quality sound of a natural hearing ear. Recently, Professor Michael Dorman of Arizona State University discovered, from one of his patients that had both normal hearing and hearing from a cochlear implant, what cochlear implants sound like. According to audio recordings of his results, a person hearing via a cochlear implant hears speech that is echoed, slightly robotic, and of somewhat lower quality than natural hearing (Griffiths, 2014, para. 7). Nonetheless, the speech presented from the implant was mostly clear and understandable. Since cochlear implants only provide a good, but not outstanding, audio quality and some sounds can be difficult to understand, a deaf child may need to fall back on sign language, which is fully accessible to them (Klaudia, 2013, para. 17). Sign Language will not hinder development, as a study on deaf children in Spain suggests. At the University of Córdoba in Córdoba, Spain, a group of eighteen deaf children with cochlear implants were compared, as some were bilingual (spoken and sign) and some only knew spoken language. The children who were bilingual performed better at verbal fluency (Herruzo, Jimenez, & Pino, 2009, para. 4). In other words, they are able to use a greater number of words in spoken language. Use of sign language would also allow the child to better associate with Deaf

The cochlear implant is quite possibly one of the greatest ideas invented to benefit the deaf community. American Sign Language (ASL) has been the main way the deaf communicate and is extremely important to the deaf culture. To those that can hear, being deaf or profoundly hard of hearing has been considered a handicap. It was for that reason that someone invented the cochlear implant, causing a huge debate within the deaf community. Some of those in the deaf community fear that their culture will be lost and destroyed, while others and the hearing community believe that it will better their lives. Most do not realize that this procedure is not a cure and that it will leave those with the implants confused as to where they belong in society.

I first learned about cochlear implants in my special education class. My initial thought was that they were a beneficial advancement in technology and in the medical field for those who were deaf or hard of hearing. In my field experience, I observed a sixth grade teacher at Donnell Middle School. In her class, I observed two students who had cochlear implants and an interpreter who was in front of the classroom signing what the teacher was saying. I thought that was really neat to see and experience for the first time. Through further research on cochlear implants, I came to the conclusion that cochlear implants do not fix the patient’s hearing entirely and that there are many positive and negative factors to consider when getting a cochlear implant.

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, “About 2 to 3 out of every 1,000 children in the United States are born with a detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears.” Cochlear Implants are mechanical devices that are highly promoted by the hearing society to “cure” deafness. Despite the fact Cochlear Implants can be effective, the risk of serious physical and emotional harm to a patient outweighs the chances of its success.

The Bionic Ear has revolutionised the lives of deaf individuals all over the world, it is not only a great scientific achievement, but also a great progression in a socio-cultural context within the lives and communities of the deaf and hearing-impaired individuals. The Bionic Ear with the aid of IT has provided new capabilities and in turn gives individuals new choices of

Not only do they help people hear again, but they can also help improve a person’s quality of life. For people whose hearing has been restored with a cochlear implant, their social interactions and thinking skills may also improve. This is due because cochlear implantation allows you to once again enjoy the sounds of music, enage in conversations, and hear the sounds around you with ease. There’s no doubt that hearing from both ears has it’s advantages and can have an impact on people’s livelihood. When a person has a cochlear implant, there are two parts. One part you can visibly see on the persons head, but there is another part that is surgically inserted near the ear, underneath the skin. These two parts interact and work with each other to change sound into electric signals. These electric signals get sent through the hearing nerve, and head straight to the brain.