Cochlear Implantation Advantages

Music therapy helps individuals with disabilities to identify and express his or her emotions as well as to assist in the development of verbal communication, speech and language skills. The data collection tool implemented to track the progress of students focused on student participation and independence levels. These levels were tracked weekly and broken down into 5 sections: Independent, Verbal, Gestural, Physical, and No Participation. Data was also collected when measuring a student’s response to musical selection and to see if a rhythm was followed in either double or triple meter.

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

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

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, about two to three children out of every 1,000 are born with a detectable level of hearing impairment in the United States. Without hearing, children miss out on the acoustic correlates of the physical world, such as car horns and footsteps. Children are also limited in their exposure to patterned complexities in music and spoken word. These hard of hearing and deaf students grow and develop in unique ways compared to their hearing peers because of the stimulus they do not have. Researchers have focused on how communication methods for hard of hearing and deaf children affect their development in the physical, social-emotional, cognitive and communicative

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.

While there are many risks involved with cochlear implants, there could also be many benefits. The question that remains is, “Do the benefits of receiving a cochlear implant outweigh the risks?” Although many advances have been made scientifically to improve the effectiveness of cochlear implants, it is also important to examine the opinions of the deaf society, how a deaf person’s communication skills may develop with or without a cochlear implant, and the economic factors

The younger you are implanted the better the chances of being able to fully hear are. The older you are when implanted the less likely the chances of being able to fully hear are. In 2010 it was reported that over 40 million Americans are older than 65 years old, of those 40 million many will most likely experience hearing loss. By the year of 2050, the amount of senior citizens will increase by 147%(Sladen, D. P., & Zappler, A. (2015)). That is more people with hearing loss and that means a growing need for an implant that may or may not work because of the age of the user. "An estimated 65% of people 10 years and older have a hearing impairment(Sladen, D. P., & Zappler, A. (2015))." With the older a person becomes the more hearing loss they have. While losing hearing it would be very difficult to gain hearing back with an implant. By implanting a child at a young age you still need to work with the to train the how to use the implants. There has been new resources for teacher and therapists of children who have been implanted with cochlear implants. They are called musical ears and they help improve the child's musicality at a young age (Musical resources for working with children with CIs. (2010, August). The Hearing Review, 17(9), 48).That is why it is very important that if one is thinking about being implanted or implanting a child it should be done at a young

Sound and Fury fallows two American families with young deaf children. The two families are conflicted about whether or not to give their children cochlear implants. Although this device has the potential to give the child the ability to hear, it could also completely destroy her Deaf identity.

More than 70,000 deaf Americans have received cochlear implants since the FDA approved their use in 1985 for adults and for children in 1990 (ASHA Quick Facts 1). Since doctors externally implant the device and link it to the auditory nerve, a hearing-impaired child can detect noises slightly faster than adults who hear normally. Supporting this conclusion, findings from the University of Iowa’s otolaryngology department studies concluded that younger children tend to acclimate more easily, because most have not yet become accustomed to speaking with others. The results also revealed that the earlier the procedure occurs, the more benefit that is reaped over the long run (Cochlear Implant article, Aggen 1). In addition, this “early-action”, top-dollar implant proves to be one of the most cost-effective medical procedures, when one takes into consideration the cost required to address it later in life due to rising costs of the implants, or the lack of hearing takes a downturn. Nevertheless, cochlear implants do indeed provide a level of hearing previously deemed

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

Today, in the United States, every two-thirds of every one thousand children are deaf or hard of hearing (Hearing Loss Association of America). This causes their everyday lives to be shaped much differently than normal children. They may have cochlear implants to help them hear. In fact, “In the United States, more than 25,000 children have received cochlear implants (Lenihan 2010). The child may also have a translator in the classroom to help them understand their regular teacher or may using American Sign Language (ASL) to help them in terms of speaking to another.

One intervention may work for one person but not the other. It is important that each person is evaluated and examined in order to provide the best intervention for their specific case. One intervention or treatment may be having a profession work with the hearing-impaired child and their family to learn the skills and tools to improve their communication skills. There are hearing devices that aid in helping to improve a persons hearing. Technology is constantly changing and improving with newer and better ways to improve a person’s hearing greatly (Treatment and Intervention Services, 2015). This can be seen in the video, where they speak about the cochlear implant. A Cochlear implant is where a “procedure that implants an electronic device under the skin behind the ear directly stimulate the auditory nerve” (Hardman, Drew, & Egan, 2014). In the documentary, we witnessed how the lives of the children who had received the implant were impacted, how their families were affected and how effective the procedure was to their speech and language development and their social

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.

Cochlear implants are good and bad. The good can provide sound to those who are severely deaf. The earlier the implant the better chance of the person being able to hear. It takes time for a person with cochlear implants for their brain to learn and develop. Cochlear implants can give others a whole new meaning of life based off of the sounds they may be hearing around them. Cochlear implants can also be bad if the tests are done and the tests don’t show if the implants are going to have a positive effect on the patient. The surgery can have complications that could cause an infection. The procedure could also potentially permanently destroy whatever hearing was left before the procedure. Cochlear implants are also very expensive and not everyone