Cochlear Implants Before 1970 if a child was born deaf or a person became deaf because of an unfortunate accident there was no treatment and that was just your future. In 1961 Dr. William House invented the cochlear implant, the first time one was actually implanted in someone was 1977.Since then the technology has obviously advanced a lot. Just hearing about it makes you think it 's a miracle treatment. why would anyone not want one?
We all have decisions we have to make daily, some are life changing and others are as simple as what you want for breakfast. Deaf people have a choice to make that would change their life significantly. Some decide that being able to hear would help their daily life greatly. Others decide that they don 't want a cochlear because they didn 't want to leave the deaf community. What is this deaf community?
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The deaf community is a part of society that uses American Sign Language as their way of communicating. Many deaf people are proud to be deaf and view it as part of their culture. Just like how there are black, white, latino, american, and hearing people there are deaf people. Many deaf people don 't want to get cochlear 's because being deaf is part of their culture and they don 't want to give that up. Just like there nothing wrong with being a different nationality there is nothing wrong with being deaf. They don 't want the rest of society to think that being deaf is a disability.
In conclusion, cochlear implants can be very helpful to a deaf person but some decide not to get one and that is perfectly fine. We as hearing people should never think that a deaf person needs a cochlear implant or would be “fixed” if they got one. Everyone has free will and a choice to make for
Sara Nović’s novel True Biz is, at its core, a depiction of the struggle between the Deaf community and its hearing counterpart. Much of the book is spent describing how hearing people who fail to understand the Deaf community have mainstreamed their deaf children through the use of ASL deprivation and the use of cochlear implants. Nović feels pride about the Deaf community and wants to teach us about it so that we in the hearing world can better help to prevent its destruction. Unfortunately, in doing this, Nović has painted a one-sided picture regarding the use of cochlear implants by failing to include examples of successful ones, her depiction of Austin's family struggle around the issue, and most importantly, by glorifying the destruction of the bionics lab.
Sound and Fury centers two families who faced a challenging decision on whether to get a cochlear implant for their deaf child. Peter and his wife Nina are both deaf and gave birth to three deaf children. Neither Peter’s brother Chris nor wife Mari are deaf but one of their twin boys was born deaf. Peter and Nina are proud of being part of the Deaf community therefore they’re not as open to the idea of cochlear implants. On the contrary Mari and Chris, although having deaf in their families, are not involved in the Deaf culture and have a more positive outlook on cochlear implants.
On October 25th in the year 2000, a film was release that tackled the difficult topic, that at the time, broke family ties and rattled an entire culture from a single procedure. In Josh Aronson’s film, “Sound and Fury”, the topic of cochlear implants was fought about between an extended family, who both had Deaf children. The families thought very differently about the cochlear implant procedure and this lead to many arguments and even splitting of the families for some time. The cochlear implant procedure threatens Deaf culture and was considered very offensive to the Deaf community. Throughout the documentary, these topics were debated back and forth, about whether the benefits outweighed the risks.
Deaf children with Deaf parents usually develop a strong sense of self and know who they are. While many Deaf children with hearing parents grow up and have resentment for their parents and professionals. They usually they feel as if they weren’t exposed into the deaf world enough. Both parents face considerable challenges in raising their children. They face their children being “educated below their capacity, employed below their capability and viewed negatively in the hearing world because they are deaf” (28).
The role of Peter and Nita’s identities as Deaf people played the biggest role in their decision to wait to allow Heather to receive cochlear implants. This was surprising to me as I thought that educational opportunities, accessibility, ability to communicate with a greater number and variety of people, among other factors would have played a larger role in their decision. It was clear that Peter and Nita wanted to do what they thought was best for
Let’s be real here and acknowledge for a second that Mainstream Society has never really cared about Deaf people at all. Back-in-the-day, the American Deaf used to be forced to learn spoken English- despite not being able to hear it- and lip-reading- despite the fact that when done perfectly it is still only 30% effective. People who signed were compared to lowly animals. Students caught signing in school were punished severely.
Not many consider and are ready to handle the fact that your child may have disabilities. Tom and Louise are confronted with a problem that they know nothing about and to make it worse they are living in a time when the facts and technology surrounding deafness are misconstrued. Deaf like Me is a tale
At both sides of the argument, cochlear implants are a sensitive topic amongst the deaf community and those trying to further advancements on the cochlear implant device. The deaf community views the implants as a sense of false hope, false information and a long, disappointing
Cochlear implants don’t take deafness away they only help to hear the world of sound. I personal want cochlear implants and hear is why you my family should consider allowing me to get them. This new medical intervention is a great way for deaf people to hear sound. The article Cochlear Implant Debate states “To create sound,
Across the world there are myriads of different cultures. The United States alone incorporates several different cultures, one of those being the American Deaf culture. Often the Deaf are not thought of as their own culture or community, but simply as a group of people who share a common trait. However, the Deaf community, typically made up of people who are hard of hearing or have total hearing loss, but also including friends and family who are hearing, have formed a culture through their shared language, experiences, and heritage. Members abide by cultural rules, and have their own ways of showing respect and disrespect, sometimes live within their own all-Deaf societies, and have their own social, athletic, and religious organizations.
Drug usage is a big problem in the hearing community and is talked about almost every day, but not the deaf community. Believe it or not, drug usage is a big problem within the deaf community and no one really takes action because obviously communication is much more harder than it is communicating with someone that can hear. The hearing community tends to not care about people who are not relevant to them at all; thus making the deaf community feel different and lonesome. Deaf people are not granted certain jobs, they’re not treated the same, and they are not thought of as the same. When in reality, we all have skin, we all have bones, we all have or have had hair, and we all are capable of doing tasks.
Throughout the deaf community, there is diversity. It doesn’t matter if you can hear or not everywhere a person goes diversity will show. Deaf people know how to understand and deal with diversity better verbal people do. Children who have hearing parents or raised in a hearing household are more likely to adopt the view of deafness as a disability rather than a culturally hearing identity (Yael). Parents tried to speak with their deaf child rather than trying to learn how to communicate with them.
The book discussed many different ways that were given to the Spradley family, but they were given with some bias. The book talked about oralism with speech therapy, hearing aids, lip reading, and sign language. Everyone determines their personal preference in how to help people who become or are born deaf, but there needs to be a consensus that every way available be told to them truthfully. Both pros and cons of each way need to be addressed to give them the full ability to choose which way they want to take. For example, the professional in the book mentioned American Sign Language but told Tom and Louise Spradley that Lynn would never learn to speak with the usage of sign language.
Individuals, who suffer from any type of disabilities, sadly live a different life due the societal stigma attached to it. The film When Billy Broke His Head and the reading Deaf Matters Compulsory Hearing and Ability Trouble both illustrate the hardships and struggles disabled individuals go through as a result of stereotypical misconceptions created by the media and the larger society. Firstly, exemplified in the media through a portrayal of disheartened characteristics like constant anger and bitterness about life, a misconception of an unapproachable individual starts to become produced. Through a continuous loop of negative illustrations of disability, an unawareness and lack of knowledge about certain disabilities, a stigma of this unfamiliar
I watched Sound and Fury, a documentary that came out in 2000, centered on the complications of getting the Cochlear Implant, and how Deaf and hearing communities can differ upon the topic. Particularly within one family, brothers along with their wives and parents have a tough time deciding if their Deaf children should undergo such a procedure. They all travel to visit families that are hearing with children who aren’t learning ASL because they have the implant. They visit a Deaf family whose 10-year daughter is the only person in the family to get the implant. They also visit schools focusing on speech to help Deaf children who wear hearing aids and/or got the Cochlear Implant, and visit a Deaf community with a school focused on ASL.