COCHLEAR IMPLANT * Sub Industry: Health care equipment-Biotechnology * Three main products: Cochlear Nucleus, Cochlear Baha and Cochlear Hybrid * High cost of implant * Competitors: Advanced Bionics Corp, California and Med-El Corp. Austria, Sonova * Demographics-hearing loss population-America its biggest market * Partnership with complementary products manufacturers (Switzerland’s Phonak Group) * Providing incentives to surgeons – negative point * China and India
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Communication 389 CSULA Summer 2014 ICC Artifact Two 7/27/14 ICC Artifact assignment: The Cochlear Implant Controversy According to our text in Chapter 7 Nonverbal code and cultural space there are certain aspects of the culture and its relationship to nonverbal activity. Personal–contextual and the static–dynamic dia- lectics. Although nonverbal communication can be highly dynamic, personal space, gestures, and facial expressions are fairly static patterns of specific non- verbal
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conveyed emotions from my interviewees and that really explained what it was like to grow up with a family member with a cochlear implant. Why interview these specific individuals? • I interviewed Cecilia’s mother, because she has memory of Cecilia’s early years and what it was like to raise Cecilia. • I interviewed Cecilia to get a first person perspective on cochlear implants and the hearing/deaf community. Who was your target audience(s)? What specific publication(s) would this be best suited
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The Silent Society: Being Deaf Deafhood and Epistemology When considering the epistemology of deafness, one must consider the history of how deafness has evolved. The history of deafness comes from the ignorance of those who could not understand how people who had a disability were different from them. It was easier to place these types of “folks” in intuitions and not deal with their needs. Understanding the deaf community comes through understanding the culture and the history that allows
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Students & Hearing Impairment Humans are fortunate to have 5 physical senses and also have the knowledge to use and verbally express our perceptions about our environment using each one. Of course we know these to be taste, smell, touch, see, and hear. From the moment we wake up until the moment we fall asleep, we use each of these senses. Some of these senses are considered more vital than the others. But, with these senses, we are capable of living in this on-the-go, ease-of-access society
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tell the teacher in this room really took the time to see what she could do to assist in communication. This room has six children, all between the ages of 3-5, and B is the only child who has a hearing deficiency. B wears a hearing device, a cochlear implant, to help her hear better and understand the other children. Although she is encouraged to keep the device on at all times during school, aside from nap time, B will take off her device if she is upset, needs quiet time, or is not feeling well
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October 15th 2008 “Arriana, you will be more profoundly deaf as you get older. Your hearing is in the spot where the hearing aids aren’t benefiting you anymore.” The audiologist said. The voice I remember hearing was heartless. “Would you rather be deaf and mute and signing the whole time? Not being aware of your surrounding? Or would you rather be able to hear and talk in the normal world?” The audiologist says it with no emotions. I thought my world died when Cincinnati Children’s audiologist
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yet there is no cure for high frequency hearing loss. Emily can receive treatment, which focuses on improving hearing rather then restoring it. Many cases the auditory nerve is actually intact. Emily can act on her hearing loss by getting a Cochlear Implants. Its job is to bypass hair cells and stimulate the auditory nerves directly. I think that this will help Emily because if the auditory nerved is intact, it is possible for Emily to still hear and will not be forced into deep anxiety. But if in
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* Varies in type and severity * Extent to which a child is handicapped depends on the severity of the loss, what caused the loss, how early the loss is detected and at what age the loss has occurred. * The use of hearing aids and cochlear implants restore hearing ability * Even minor disruptions can lead to language problems * It is more common in boys. * Hearing loss due to ear infections is common in Australian indigenous children. Language development: * Hearing
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brought about a tremendous amount of controversy over the past few months. A San Diego native couple Jeff and Hillary gave birth to a baby girl in 2007 and named her Ryland Whittington. Baby Ryland suffered from an earring issue and had to undergo cochlear implant surgery. Shortly after she learned how to hear and speak, the first words to her parents were her expressing to them that she “I am a boy”. At first, Jeff and Hillary Whittington just thought of Ryland referring to her as a boy was a phase that
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