Cochlear implant

the cochlear implant surgery, the family will need a wide range of counseling to ensure that Zoey is given all the support she needs to ensure her cochlear implant is successful and reach the goals they made as a family. The parents should receive intensive information counseling on the cochlear implant device. Informational counseling includes providing information on a device, implications of Zoey’s hearing loss type, and steps to help manage her hearing loss before and after the cochlear…

Imagine Driving down the road with the windows down and your favorite song on the radio and everything is just so relaxed. Now Imagine one day you can’t do this anymore. Can you think of something that you love? Now imagine if that thing you loved was taken away or imagine even worse that you never could experience the thing you loved again. I love music. I love the way the notes dance around the lyrics. I love that some music can calm me when I am upset or get me pumpin when I’m jammin out.…

The advancement in technology has led to a solution for individuals with damage to the inner ear. Cochlear implants are devices used for individuals who suffer from a severe to profound hearing loss who do not benefit from the use of hearing aids. Individuals who are candidates for the use of cochlear implants commonly suffer from a severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss, which is a hearing loss that is attributed to damage to the cochlea. The cochlea is the anatomical structure that…

during her daily life mildly. When she was in high school, she had to make the riskiest decision of her life, which is getting a cochlear implant on her right ear. The main reason why it was chancy because under eighteen years old, she could get the surgery for free from insurance, so she wanted to take advantage of that. Back on topic, quoted from Google, “A Cochlear Implant is a device that can be surgically implanted into a person 's cochlea to stimulate it to cause hearing. It consists of a…

jump to any chance for a cure. Cochlear implants present a “cure” for the Deaf, but it is not as beneficial one would assume. Some believe that any deaf person who can afford the procedure should choose to receive a cochlear implant, but the decision-making process isn’t as simple as it seems. Deaf people struggle with the threat of health complications and difficulty in school in addition to loss of identity when deciding if they should take the financial risk of cochlear implantation.…

pediatric cochlear implant, some going as far as to say that to deprive a child of an implant would be to deprive them of a decent way of life. While each case is completely separate from another, and should be treated as such, the purpose of this paper is to argue that it would be in the child’s best interest to introduce both them and their hearing family to deaf culture and raise the child in that culture until they, alone, are of the mind that they would prefer to undergo cochlear implant…

wondering the same thing. They are debating on whether or not they want to have their son or daughter get the miraculous solution best known as cochlear implant surgery. However, cochlear implants may not be as glorious as it sounds and it does have risks. These parents have to determine whether or not being able to hear is really worth the risk. Cochlear implant surgery was created to help deaf people be able to listen. So far it has been pretty successful in doing so. People have been able to…

Although statistical data and research shows there are healthcare disparities as it relates to minorities, much isn’t done to change negative patterns. However, researchers’ have chosen to examine the healthcare racial inequalities of African Americans. Cultural differences, and racial conscious and unconscious are factors that contribute to the gap in African American health. Therefore, collecting only medical data and physician behaviors towards certain diagnosis, is not enough to determine…

This segment highlighted the work of Rene Gifford, director of the Cochlear Implant Research Laboratory at Vanderbilt University, and Allyson Sisler-Dinwiddie, audiologist. Allyson suffered from hearing loss as a child, but a car accident left her with a total loss of hearing. Determined not to let her disability deter her, she became a recipient of a cochlear implant herself. She was amazed by the increase in hearing that she had now compared to the limited hearing…

groups they want to and not be placed in a group before their birth by their parents choice. “Ethical Issues in Cochlear Implant Surgery,” by Harlan Lane and Michael Grodin Thesis 1: Deafness is not considered a disability by the Deaf-world, people who are deaf belong to a common culture which makes up a minority. Therefore, it follows that any interference, such as a cochlear implants or genetically altering embryos before birth, is not morally sound because deafness is not a disability that…