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...
The controversy over cochlear implants in children has many sides. For some in the deaf community, CIs are an affront to their culture, which as they view it, is a minority threatened by the hearing majority. The deaf community feels that its way of life is fully functional, and that usin...
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, ...
The controversy over cochlear implants often pits hearing parents against deaf parents when it comes to raising their deaf children in a hearing world. Many deaf parents would prefer to raise their deaf child in a deaf culture, including the use of sign language and lip reading. Hearing parents...
COCHLEAR IMPLANTS "DESTROY DEAF CULTURE" No they DON'T! "Deaf Culture" is primarily about the gestural languages (such as ASL in the USA and Canada), unrelated to spoken phonetic languages, that are used by BOTH deaf AND hearing people all over the world. These gestural languages can be ...
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The normal life of a child who is unfortunate enough to receive one of these implants is drastically interrupted. Up to eight hours a day can be spent on learning how to speak and most of the time this isn’t accomplished because of the poor sound quality of the device. They must endure...
Inner ear gene therapy using adeno-associated viral vectors (AAV) promises to alleviate hearing and balance disorders. We previously established the benefits of Anc80L65 in targeting inner and outer hair cells in newborn mice. To accelerate translation t
Large investments into research and development as well as over 30 years of clinical experience have established that cochlear implants and bone conduction implants are safe and clinically effective. This resulted in the expansion of the candidacy criteria to include very young children [8, 9]. In...
Cochlear implants and the claims of culture? A response to Lane and Grodin. Because I reject the notion that physical characteristics constitute cultural membership, I argue that, even if the claim were persuasive that deafness is ... Dena,S,Davis - 《Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal》 被引...