Cochlear Implant Reflection

This movie certainly gave me a variety of perspectives and reactions. I highly commend the grandmother’s perspective of wanting to broaden her grand-daughters world of knowledge and speech. She herself being a parent of deaf children and as a hearing individual, both her and her husband, had to embrace learning this world, of her 2 sons, 1 being born deaf, there certainly are opposing side. Heather, who at 5 yrs of age, is expressing she wants to learn to speak properly and have a cochlear implant. Both her deaf parents (Peter and Nita) are without a doubt, loving parents and I see their perspective in not being 100% supportive of their daughter having this procedure done. I sensed, that because this is the only world they have known, their fear is that their daughter would lose the sense of what her world is about. …show more content…
The end result of Heather not having the procedure had me feeling that she wanted to please her parents and felt more comfortable in her circle of deafness than continuing with the challenges she would face in learning to be in the “hearing” world. I did appreciate that her parents did not make this a closed decision, and did state that they would revisit it again when Heather was older, if this was a choice she choose to bring up again. So no matter what the grandparents feel/say, the issue really isn’t closed for