Speculative Ask the Experts STOCKS IN BRIEF COCHLEAR (COH) COCHLEAR (COH) A T 21 DEC 11 Cochlear BY: James Greenhalgh RE A DIN G TIM E : GENERAL INFORMATION Latest Recommendation: Share Price: 12-month range: Hold $71.36 $51.83 - 72.81 Healthcare & Biotechnology Business Risk: Share Price Risk: Maximum Portfolio Weighting: Medium Medium 5% AT 24 OCT 12 2 mins HOLD PRICE AT REVIEW : $62.72 Yesterday’s 16% share price rise for Cochlear shows just how desperately investors love
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Introduction When a child is diagnosed as deaf, parents are faced with a critical decision to make in the first few years of their child’s life. Deafness as defined by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), means “ a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child's educational performance” (34 Code of Federal Regulations [section]300.8[c][3] [2013])
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Robert Kremer is a 77-year-old male who has a binaural, sensorineural hearing loss. He has had this hearing loss since he was 7 years old. Robert hearing loss has progressed and he is need of stronger amplification because he relying more on visual cues. In order to make Robert’s quality of life better, I have made some recommendation to best treat his condition and lifestyle. Since Mr. Kremer has not had an audiological testing in the past five years, I would like to retest his hearing before making
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The Impact of New Technology on Deaf Communities When it comes to the topic of how technology affects the Deaf community, most of us will readily agree that technology should be developed to help people that face these challenges. Where people often disagree is on the question of whether or not the technology that is already existent actually helps these people. On the one hand, there are many scientists that support how technology has helped these people connect with their community. On the other
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Social Impact Report Document Author: John Doe Submission Date: 9/04/2013 Executive Summary: Cyborgs, seen in the ‘sci-fi world’ as humans with robotic parts on the outside of the body, have become a topic of great interest in the real world. Short for "cybernetic organism", the actual definition of a cyborg is a being whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device, regardless of whether this device is within the body or an external component
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The military requires all recruits to pass a basic hearing test before being accepted into the military. This means that all deaf and hard of hearing individuals would not be able to join in military. Deaf individual don't even get a chance to try and become a part of the Armed Forces. They see that you are deaf and tell you no. A new bill would allow deaf people to be in the Air Force as part of a Pilot or demonstration program. A captain in the Air force convinced a U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, to
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Cochlear – Asia Pacific www.cochlear.com Finance, Human Resources, Marketing (Consumer Insights) and Marketing Communications Internships Cochlear Asia Pacific is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The fastest growing region of Cochlear Limited, Cochlear Asia Pacific has a direct market presence in Japan, Korea, India, China, Singapore and Australia/NZ and has 80 employees based in Australia. Working closely with the Cochlear team, there are a variety of internship opportunities available
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The second event attended was watching the movie A Quiet Place. It is a horror/thriller movie where the monsters are blind and only track their prey using sound. The family in the movie has a deaf daughter and communicate with sign language to remain silent. The use of sign language in the movie is very intriguing, it does not portray it as odd or anything it just is the main form of communication in the film. The film “normalizes” sign language to the point where you forget it is not the normal
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Many deaf people have been influential in the everyday life of an average deaf individual. While I was researching, I found one in particular that stood out to me. She was the first Miss America with a disability, she was deaf she was Heather Whitestone. She came to face many great challenges in her life, but she overcame them all. When Heather was just 18 months old she got influenza and had to be rushed to the hospital. She had an extremely high fever and was near death. The doctors gave her
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The topic I’d like to research more on is the discrimination against deaf people. The questions or ideas I had are… -Why aren’t more people aware of deaf people? -Doctors often recommend the use of cochlear implants or hearing aids to hearing parents of a deaf child, even the deaf parents too, over the use of sign language. Why is that? Is it purely for monetary reasons, prejudiced against deaf people, only seeing deafness as a disability, or just ignorant in general? -Why is their language often
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