Cochlea

1) What counseling theories work well with D/deafs? Why? Reality Therapy, created by William Glasser during 1950’s focuses on the “present” and choices involving some form of action that relates to basic needs. The reality therapy works well with Deaf individuals because it’s a way to help them deal with their Deafness. The truth is some Deaf individuals tend to blame others for their problems. With Reality therapy, it will help them to acknowledge their responsibilities, feelings, actions, and…

A unique, vibrant, and eloquent minority genre of art arising from Deaf culture was given international attention. These are “Deaf View/Image Art, or De'VIA”(Source A). This art uses formal art elements with the intention of expressing innate cultural or physical Deaf experiences (Source A). Deaf Art communicates more than the sensory experience of silence. Many artists include ideas such as the beauty of sign language, oral training, frustrations in communicating, painful oppression, cultural…

The video I watched is called “Deaf Mosaic #402” which is a television program and the number represents the episode for the show. Deaf Mosaic is produced and distributed by the members of Gallaudet University, however it stopped running in, I think, around 1995. The TV show used to give the viewers an insight into Deaf culture and history. Anyways, the episode #402 is very important because of how it changed the deaf community in such a big way; it was the protest called “Deaf President Now.”…

Gene Therapy Makes an Impact on Deafness Today’s scientific technology has increased; we now have different techniques and methods for saving lives, one being gene therapy. According to Scientific America, gene therapy is when you add a “new gene to a patient’s cell to replace missing” or broken genes. An interesting topic I encountered about gene therapy was, how gene therapy helps deafness. Deafness can be caused by many different reasons. According to Harvard Medical School, they stated that…

Deaf people are likely to enter therapy with the same problems as hearing people. However, there are many studies showing that members of the Deaf community experience health disparities due to language barriers, which contribute to lower health literacy1,2. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that most physicians and psychologist are not adequately prepared to provide linguistically and culturally competent care for deaf patients3. Also, the deaf community experience many obstacles to get…

is not the vibrating ear drum but what these vibrations set into motion. Before we discuss the function of the mechanical energy we must know what the structures we are working with. The middle ear starts at the tympanic membrane and ends at the cochlea. Within this area of space, we find three small bones that play a major role in sound production. These bones are the malleus, incus, and stapes; together they are referred to as the “ossicles”. The function of the middle ear in terms of sound is…

An indication that Lucas has an ear infection is that he’s not sleeping well, he hardly eats, and constantly pulling his ear. In children it might be harder to conclude what these symptoms can be exactly since they don’t really speak clearly to actually express what’s bothering them. Chronic otitis media is an inflammation or infection that lies behind the eardrum, it appears and disappears that’s why it’s considered chronic. Some symptoms of otitis media are: sleeplessness, ear pain which…

Tinnitus is the ringing in the ear, which is an unwanted sound that one can hear. The sounds can be constant or comes and goes, soft or loud, and in one ear or both. There are three ways to distinguish the symptoms of the patient’s tinnitus sound: tonal tinnitus, pulsatile tinnitus, and musical tinnitus. Tonal is a near continuous sound that are affiliated with subjective tinnitus, which is just the normal ringing sound, pulsatile is pulsing sound that one hears from their heartbeat and for some…

semicircular tubes and the cochlea. The cochlea is a bony tube shaped like a snail. This tube allows you to hear sounds. Inside the cochlea contains hair cells with sensory hairs. The cells are linked to larger bundles of nerves that carry signals to the brain. When sound waves enter our ears, they hit the eardrum which vibrates it. The eardrum further vibrates the hammer, anvil, and stirrup. The stirrup vibrations cause the oval window to vibrate which causes the fluid in the cochlea to…

With the machines, with solid clinical credentials and motivations researchers are developing a new set of technologies that will soon be adapted into the human body wholesale in the ways the inventors did not originally imagine. Today there tens of thousands of peoples walking around with implants that connect electronic directly to their nervous systems Theses peoples have accepted they are better off becoming a hybrid, part human, part machine, than staying purely human. Before long they…