Cochlear implants, to the medical field, are an outlet of those who view deafness as an impairment that needs to be cured. Hence why parents want to implant their children as early as possible because they believe it helps their children with speech development in the future. Most of the time, the children have no say at all if they opt for early implantation of the cochlear implant for their deaf child. This then leads to the child to not only being implanted early, but forced into this world of hearing and speech use, when they have had no previous exposure to it. The child must work hard mentally and physically to repair their deafness. The overall underlying understanding, which is apparent, is that although you can alter the deaf individual
