Cochlear Implant Experience

     A cochlear implant is an electronic device that restores hearing for people anywhere from hard of hearing to the profoundly deaf. The cochlear implant is surgically implanted under the skin behind the ear. The surgeon puts the electrode array inside the inner ear and than inside the cochlea. The implant works by a device outside the ear, which rests on the skin behind the ear. It is held upright by a magnet and is also connected by a lead to a sound professor.

Cochlear Implants are an object that is very controversial in the deaf community. “A Cochlear Implants is a device that provdes direct electrical stimulation to the auditory (hearing) nerve in the inner ear.” (“Cochlear Implants”) Cochlear Implants bypass the damaged hair cells, and directly stimulate the auditory nerve. Depending on when the Cochlear Implant is implanted it allows people to hear sounds, and sometimes even their own voice. While it does not cure hearing loss or deafness, it does allow people to hear. On more technical terms a Cochlear Implant includes parts like a microphone, speech processor, and a transmitter which each play a different part in the Cochlear Implant. The microphone picks up sounds, sends them to the speech processer, and then the speech processor analyzes and digitized the sound signal, thus sending them to a transmitter worn on the head. The debate of whether or not Cochlear Implants are right in the deaf community is one that has been going on for years. People believe having Cochlear Implants are a good thing, because they allow deaf people to communicate with hearing people, it allows people who are not helped by conventional hearing aids to be helped, and it creates new possibilities for deaf people. However there are also people that argue that having a Cochlear Implant is a bad thing, because it proposes the idea that deaf people need to be fixed, it can give deaf people false hope, and it proposes the idea that deaf people have a

A Cochlear Implant is an electronic device that partially restores hearing in people who have severe hearing loss due to damage of the inner ear and who receive limited benefit from hearing aids (http://www.cochlear.com/wps/wcm/connect/au/home/understand/hearing-and-hl/hl-treatments/cochlear-implant). In some cases there are patients whose hearing did not adjust correctly, having a risk of developing a virus, complications after the surgery, the benefits of sign language without a cochlear implant and lastly children or adults with cochlear implants may not even develop a good speech. There are many positive and negative articles I have read on cochlear implants. As a parent you are not only putting your child at risk, you are also withdrawing them from the deaf community, the one they were naturally born into. I do not support cochlear implants, children should not be implanted until they are grown to the point where they can make their own choice

A cochlear implant is an implanted medical device for the deaf or hard of hearing that do not benefit from the traditional hearing aid. It is composed of an internal device that is implanted in the recipient’s head and an external device that is the sound processor. The sound processor collects sound and then transmits it to the implanted device, which then sends it directly to the brain to be interpreted as language. During the time that I was choosing a hearing solution for my daughter I experienced a lot of negative opinions from the deaf culture (community of deaf people who share sign language among other things). They seem to be against parents choosing to have their small children implanted. The deaf culture presumes

Majority of the world that we live in, people are constantly reminded what is normal by society. The world is run by big businesses and corporation that are usually visually dominant, however without hearing it is viewed as a major disadvantage to the hearing world. Kent State University compiled an accurate definition of the deaf community “ those [of] deaf and hard of hearing individuals who share a common language, common experience and values, and a common way of interacting with each other, and with hearing people.” The deaf community is viewed by the hearing world as an official handicap since they deviate from what is considered normal. Many of the deaf communities have enforced the young and informed the parents to avoid getting

1-To begin with, I’m going to state 3 different moral theories in which each one has their own arguments about the permissibility of abortions. In the article by Harvest Thomson, she discusses an analogy comparing a violinist who is connected to a person that was kidnapped. Her kidney can function properly with the blood of the kidnapped person attached to it, but if for any reason the violinist is disconnected, she will die. In this case, the author is using this analogy to compare a woman that has been raped and has gotten pregnant. Furthermore, why is this woman obligated to have a child she was forced to have? In both cases, neither are obligated to do this, which is what the author is trying to point out. The person who was kidnapped

The summer of 2015, I went on a deaf camp titled T.I. Deaf Camp. Short for Teen Insitue Deaf Camp. Now because i’m hard of hearing but I stand out as a deaf person, friends came naturally, almost as if you was the hottest thing in Cosmo magazine. In other words myself and others was noticed instantly. Now also I realized that we had some kids who was only partially deaf (not full deaf) and they had hearing aids on and everything but also they didn’t know American Sign Language, it was so different and weird to work with them and during special events such as team basketball, volleyball or even during scavenger hunts etc. Both kids who could sign and couldn’t were very distance from each other. I didn’t know the answer to this conflict, so myself

This can be very discouraging. Many children who are deaf find it difficult to make friends because most children communicate verbally. In the film Sound and Fury, a very young girl, named Heather, is caught in the middle of the deaf and hearing community. Heather was born deaf. Her immediate family is also deaf, but within her extended family, there are both people who can hear and people who are deaf. She longs to be able to hear like he friends at school that can hear. Her parents research and explore their options, and decide that Heather will not receive a cochlear implant. In the sequel to the documentary, Sound and Fury 6 Years Later, Heather has finally receives a cochlear implant. She is thrilled! She attends a normal high school, and is very successful. She has many friends, and has access to all the opportunities that her classmates do. She plays on sports teams and is in the top ten percent of her class. Later in life, she moved on to college and is now pursuing a law degree. This would not have been possible without a cochlear implant. Doors have been opened to the deaf community that were unimaginable just a few decades

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.

In the matter surrounding cochlear implants, Tucker would strongly agree that deaf children and other deaf individuals can truly benefit from this implant. She feels as though these implants can only better one’s quality of life, especially for children. She also believes that only positive opportunities and success and come from cochlear implants so the earlier a child is introduced to the hearing world, the more success the child will experience throughout life. To resolve this dilemma that Sean and Mary are having consider their child, Tucker would propose that parents should ultimately choice what is right for their child and their child’s future and not what is right for others/communities. One reason why Tucker feels cochlear implants

At the beginning of the movie, the little girl, Heather, decided to ask her deaf parents if she could get a cochlear implant. Her parents were hesitant at first but they decided to look in to how it could improve her life. At first, Heather’s dad, Peter, was totally against Heather getting the cochlear implant because he felt that it was against the deaf culture but after his wife, Nita, thought that maybe she would also like a cochlear he opened up to the idea of looking into them. Nita only wanted a cochlear implant to see what it was like and she wanted it so she could help Heather with it as much as possible. Nita eventually decided that she no longer wanted the implant.

For a child to be deaf and put in a school that is primarily for the hearing is called mainstreaming. It's not possible for a deaf child to be fully immersed in Deaf culture if he or she is mainstreamed. Deaf students who are mainstreamed miss out on the feeling of belonging that individuals from the Deaf culture associate with their residential schools and their experience is very different from those who attend residential school. Mainstreamed students can often have feelings of being singled out. Although they have access to interpreters, notetakers and other special assistive devices, they still may feel left out, especially in a mainstream environment where there are few other students who are hard-of-hearing or deaf.

surrounding cochlear implants in infants, and if parents making permanent decisions for their children’s futures are a violation of their child’s rights. As I discussed earlier, cochlear implants have the ability to completely combat the effect deafness would have on development in infancy and childhood.

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,

Infants and children who suffer from hearing loss are at an increased risk for developing delayed speech, language, social, and emotional skills 1. Many children who suffer from mild to moderate hearing loss have great success with hearing aids, however those who are born profoundly deaf cannot benefit from hearing aids alone. If a profoundly deaf individual chooses to hear their only option is to have cochlear implants. Cochlear implants are a two-part system consisting of external and internal parts 2. The external part is much like a hearing aid that has a transmitter, speech processor, and microphone 2. The internal parts consist of the receiver and electrodes. The speech processor process sounds, sends the code to the transmitter 2. The