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Introduced by Sheldon Altfeld, past president of the Silent Network, deaf hosts Mary Beth Barber and David Sladek lead a group of hearing and deaf panelists through an in-depth discussion of the cochlear implant. This program features doctors that perform the surgery, audiologists, implant recipients, parents and members of the deaf community who have deep reservations about the propiety of the implant. David Butterfield who produced the project...
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Making decisions about assistive hearing devices can involve a large amount of confusing information. The medical industry, insurance industry, and companies that manufacture cochlear implants and hearing aids often do not include information from a community perspective. Phil Bravin, a recognized leader in the Deaf community and a successful businessman, provides basic factual information about deafness in general, the anatomy and process of hearing,...
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The Montgomery County Public School System present several students who have had successful implantation and experiences with a cochlear implant. A brief overview of the habilitation process required for inital use and success with the implant is discussed including age of implantation, language level, consistent use, educational environment, and parental involvement.
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The decision to give one's child a cochlear implant is a very difficult one. This video presents differing viewpoints on the topic. A majority of the discussion occurs in casual round-table type conversation between the two parents of a young eighteen month old deaf child, Emily, a deaf mentor who uses ASL, and a hearing support therapist. The video then culminates with each person providing rationale for their viewpoint and feelings.
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In the United States, 12,000 babies are born annually with hearing loss. Doctors at the University of Miami's Ear Institute help patients that are diagnosed and prepared for cochlear implant surgery. A cochlear implant is a small, complex electronic device that provides the sense of hearing to patients who are profoundly deaf or are severely hard of hearing. The implant helps patients hear when electrodes along the array stimulate the remaining auditory...
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A life-affirming story about hearing lost--and found again. When she was a teenager, Arlene Romoff gradually began to lose her hearing, until no hearing aid or other standard device could help her anymore. She had become profoundly deaf. Then a marvel of modern technology changed her life: cochlear implants, which bypass the damaged portion of the cochlea and stimulate the auditory nerve directly. Amazingly, Arlene could hear again--until ten years...
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Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the...
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