Cochlear Implant Australian innovation By Year 11 Dnt What is a cochlear implant? A cochlear implant is a medical device that is placed into the head behins the ear of a deaf person. When it is used with a microphone and speech processor it stimulates the auditory nerve allowing the person to hear. Many people with hearing loss can use hearing aids to help them hear but people with severe hearing loss or deaf hearing aids don’t work. These people may use the cochlear implant The cochlear
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Mariah Skinner 13 September 2010 Intro ASL 03 Question 1: A. Which is POTENTIALLY more serious: being born blind or deaf? What is Sacks’ reasoning and what do YOU think? The decision between what is more serious‚ being born blind or deaf‚ is not an easy one. Personally I have a biased opinion to some extent since I am hard of hearing‚ without my hearing aids. Sacks’ wrote that he believes being born deaf is potentially more serious than being born blind and I agree. There are numerous reasons
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Customer Service Unit 3 Communication in the customer service role Session 4 Understand how to meet the needs of a diverse range of customers © Creating Careers Limited‚ 2012. All rights reserved. Page 1 of 1 Communicating with people who have language/speech difficulties Try and ask short questions that only require short responses. Don’t raise your voice unless requested as most speech-impaired customers can hear and understand. If you don’t understand‚ ask the person to repeat what
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Introductory awareness of sensory loss Outcome 1: Understand the factors that impact on an individual with sensory loss and steps that can be taken to overcome these There are a range of factors‚ both negative and positive that can occur with an individual with sensory loss. A positive factor can be that the individual will gain a lot of support to help them deal with their sensory loss and how they will be able to move forward. Negative factors are that the individual won’t be able to perform
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Chinese Whispers: A game played everywhere in the world‚ in which a message is whispered by one person to another‚ that is passed through a line of people until the message is announced by the last person to the entire group. Chinese Whispers: A game which brings most hard of hearing people to their knees. Perhaps it was my inability to respond to a sharp whistle or the lack of attention my Grade two teacher received from me during story time‚ but there was always something about me that never
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Abby Cowit 10-22-12 ASL-7 Marlee Matlin Marlee Matlin is a famous actress who is deaf since she was 18 months old. Marlee has a deformed cochlea‚ which is genetic. This also means she had a good change that she could not hear when she was born‚ instead her hearing got worst over the first year of her life. Marlee’s deafness has not stopped her from doing the things she loves. “I have always resisted putting limitations on myself‚ both professionally and personally.” The first
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EFFECTS OF INCREASED USE OF TECHNOLOGY HAVE ON THE HEALTH OF TEENAGERS In the millennial generation‚ it is arguably impossible to imagine teenagers living their daily lives without any consumption of technology. Numerous technologies around us are assisting countless youngsters‚ allowing them to live a much more luxurious life. However‚ they tend to increase the use of their sophisticated machinery each day. This will greatly affect their health‚ both physically and mentally. Being handicapped
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Deaf people have not been counted in the U.S. official count of the population since 1930‚ according to Gallaudet University Library. There is no reason why they should not be counted as part of the population or be considered as people. When people who can hear see deaf people‚ they pity and treat them differently. Most people assume that people who are deaf want to be fixed with hearing aids and speech therapy‚ or that it’s hard to live like that. Why? The only thing that makes their lives harder
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The biggest controversy of the deaf community has been the topic of a cochlear implant. The debate is centered around the expense‚ risk and idea of the implants causing deaf people to distance themselves from the deaf community rather than emerging themselves. This is due to the cochlear implants ability to provide a sense of sound to the deaf individual. It is only used when a hearing aid is not strong enough to provide adequate function. The cochlear implant involves a lot of time to consider the
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Alexander Graham Bell‚ we all know him for his revolutionary invention‚ the telephone. But‚ that wasn’t even his original goal. He actually made the discovery on accident. His main goal was to help the deaf speak. His two brothers Melville and Edward sadly died from tuberculosis at young ages. His mother was deaf‚ and that definitely influenced him to study deafness. Many of Bell’s ideas and goals were turned into reality. But the subject he was most passionate about was helping the deaf.
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