Essay On Cochlears

I’m All Ears for Cochlears; Making Our Way to A Hearing World Imagine this, a world where people can't hear anything. Where people don't know what talking, music, or even the rustling of leaves sounds like. A deaf person lives in that world. Their world is silent. Most people get hearing loss once they grow older or are involved in some type of trauma, but what most people do not know is, “15% of children between the ages of 6-19 have a measurable hearing loss in at least one ear” (“Statistics and fact…”). Six to nineteen-years old is when everything is new and fun. Music becomes most popular and kids want to listen to anything and everything. This is the age where people are making memories. Every parents fear is that their child will have some type of disability. No parent wants their child to be different. The percent of deaf children that are born to hearing parents is vast. “Over 90% of deaf children …show more content…
If a deaf child is born to parents that are not hearing impaired, they are going to want their child to be able to have the life that they have, to hear what they have heard. Cochlear implants can give deaf people the opportunity to hear normally and be able to fit in better than if they were deaf. Despite the risks involved, deaf people should receive a cochlear implant for the opportunity to live a normal life by hearing everyday things. A cochlear implant is small electronic device that may give a deaf or extremely hard of hearing person a sense of what hearing is. Unlike a hearing aid that just amplifies the sound, a cochlear implant actually gives the person a sense of hearing. Naomi points out, “The cochlear implant is a complex device that mimics the hearing function of the inner ear....” The sound that a person hears with a cochlear implant is not the sound that a normal hearing