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    Cochlear implants are commonly used in modern science to treat patients with deafness in one or both ears. The structure of cochlear implants are as follows, an outer component, a transmitter, a receiver-stimulator package and the microelectrode array(Sigfrid D. Soli, 2011). The outer component of a cochlear implant records sound waves, while the transmitter brings the recorded sounds to the receiver-stimulator. The receiver-stimulator then converts the recorded sound waves to electrical impulses

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    deaf children are exposed to signed language before school age (Dougherty). Cochlear implants are approved by the FDA for implantation into children as young as two years old (FDA). A hearing parent with a new deaf child is faced with choosing between two distinct lifestyles and paths for their children within weeks; oral or manual. The oral method relies on lip reading, mainstream schools, and nowadays, cochlear implants or hearing aids. The manual method relies on sign language, residential schools

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    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

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    Are Cochlear Implants Necessary?

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    recommend cochlear implants for the profoundly death. However from the HLAA (Hearing Loss Association of America) discussed that “About one-fourth of the overall range of outcome can be explained based on the length of deafness and about one-sixth of depends on the word understanding capabilities prior to implantation. Other patient, ear and device variables demonstrated no significant correlations with the benefit achieved with respect to speech recognition.” Meaning cochlear implants are still

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    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

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    Cochlear Implant History

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    A cochlear implant is an electronic medical device that does the work of the damaged parts of the cochlea, which is the inner ear, to provide sound signals to the brain. Cochlear implants were a major breakthrough in history. There was now a way for people, who have had little or no benefit from hearing aids, to receive sound. The cochlear implant, which was sometimes called a “Bionic Ear” could help some people to hear again. In 1972 the first single channel cochlear implant was introduced. This

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    Cochlear Implants      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

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    deaf child a cochlear implant?” The Deaf people fear that use of cochlear implants will eliminate their culture. A hearing person may believe it will aid their child to learn in mainstream schooling, or they may not want to learn sign language to communicate with their child. As about 90% of hearing parents cannot effectively communicate with their deaf children (Holcomb, n.d., para. 2), the latter is evident. Placed in this situation, I would implant my infant child with a cochlear implant and teach

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    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

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    or not they should implant their child with cochlear implants. After watching Sound and Fury, I learned the importance of the Deaf community and their culture and that cochlear implants are not always seen as a good thing. Hearing from the perspective of our guests, and seeing this decision from the eyes of audiologists/teachers of the Deaf, I see that cochlear implantation is anything but an easy decision. Since advancements in technology and evolution of the cochlear implant since its first debut

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