Computer Science Programmer
The Story of My Search
“Well, Moi, it looks like you will be completely deaf for the rest of your life,” the audiologist told me at age 5. I’d had been diagnosed with severe hearing loss when I was only 18 months old but we kept following up every six months in hopes that my hearing would naturally improve on its own over the years. I still remember that moment at my checkup because it hit me the hardest when we were discussing about definitely placing a cochlear implant because on my left side because the hearing aids were not helping me. I was at the therapist’s office because they wanted to make sure I was emotionally ready to undergo a surgery to place a cochlear implant in my head which would completely kill any chance of restoring normal hearing functions down the road later in my lifetime. The therapist asked me to identify what was making me angry and I told …show more content…
My search took me around two weeks and it was definitely a new experience for me. I did an online search on “Computer Science” and “Cochlear Implants” and I was overwhelmed with the amount of information that Google and the Gale database had returned to me. I did not know where to start but I started clicking on random, trusted sites that were maintained by professionals and companies that dealt with hearing loss. From the information that I had learned over the past week from researching and developing my prospective career, I was able to create my research question: Can I secure a job is very passionate about helping disabled people and allows me to program a device that could possibly help the people who has hearing loss in their
The Story of My Search
“Well, Moi, it looks like you will be completely deaf for the rest of your life,” the audiologist told me at age 5. I’d had been diagnosed with severe hearing loss when I was only 18 months old but we kept following up every six months in hopes that my hearing would naturally improve on its own over the years. I still remember that moment at my checkup because it hit me the hardest when we were discussing about definitely placing a cochlear implant because on my left side because the hearing aids were not helping me. I was at the therapist’s office because they wanted to make sure I was emotionally ready to undergo a surgery to place a cochlear implant in my head which would completely kill any chance of restoring normal hearing functions down the road later in my lifetime. The therapist asked me to identify what was making me angry and I told …show more content…
My search took me around two weeks and it was definitely a new experience for me. I did an online search on “Computer Science” and “Cochlear Implants” and I was overwhelmed with the amount of information that Google and the Gale database had returned to me. I did not know where to start but I started clicking on random, trusted sites that were maintained by professionals and companies that dealt with hearing loss. From the information that I had learned over the past week from researching and developing my prospective career, I was able to create my research question: Can I secure a job is very passionate about helping disabled people and allows me to program a device that could possibly help the people who has hearing loss in their