The use of cochlear implants in born-deaf infants addresses the issues of disability, proxy consent, and potential ethnocide of the Deaf culture. The ethical issues explored in this paper are: 1) the disability versus trait argument of deafness, 2) parents versus Deaf community in proxy consent...
Cerf received a cochlear implant when she was 53, but says she understands the deaf perspective. "The deaf community is a culture. They're much like the culture of the Hispanic community, for example, where parents who are Hispanic, or shall we say deaf, would naturally want to retain the...
Would I implant my child? No, but I do understand why some people do it. They are uneducated about deaf culture and what it means. Maybe because when the doctors tell them it is what is best for their child, they believe them. Some people are just not capable of making their own ...
The cochlear implant is a biomedical engineering device that helps deaf people recover their hearing and speech communication skills. The cochlear implant is a new technology in the field of medicine and rehabilitation, so in the selection of indications and perioperative evaluation, surgery, ...
THIS IS NOT WHY PEOPLE GET A COCHLEAR IMPLANT! Prelingually deaf adults, especially, really don't care if they can "use a telephone" or even "speak clearly," since they haven't been able to do these things all of their lives anyway, and there was no ci technology available during the...
This is why the deaf are against the implantation of a cochlear prosthesis into young deaf children. They agree it will only cause them to have a false sense of being, and create in them the notion that it’s not O.K. to be deaf. Harlan Lane explains that the implant is a drastic ...
“isthesameasdecidingthechildwillnothaveanimplant”(Tucker,8)RisksofCochlearImplants http://.fda.gov/cdrh/cochlear/ Ofsurgery: Reactiontogeneralanesthesia,injurytothefacialnerve,meningitis,cerebrospinalfluidleakage,perilymphfluidleak,infection,bloodorfluidcollectionatthesiteofsurgery,attacksofdizzinessorvertigo,...
This is because the evaluation takes place part way through the two-part fitting of an implantable hearing device; that is, after the surgical placement of the internal implant but before activation of sound, with the fitting of the external sound processor. The registry addresses industry-wide ...
A cochlear implant (CI) converts mechanical sound energy into electrical signals that can be delivered to the cochlear nerve of profoundly deaf patients. T... S Roberts,LA West,FR Liewehr,... - 《Journal of Endodontics》 被引量: 17发表: 2002年 Sound Processing for Better Coding of Tempora...
Those who were born deaf and grew up as part of theDeaf culture, where sign language is the preferred form of communication, often don’t feel they want or need cochlear implants. Similarly, many people with severe hearing loss decide not to opt for an implant because they are comfortable ...