I. How many people have gotten a cochlear implant? The National Institutes of Health estimate that as many as 59,000 people worldwide have received cochlear implants, with roughly half of those in the pediatric population.
N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Apr 2011. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201091620.htm>.
II. This week in class we finished the movie “Sound and Fury”. At the end of the movie the family with two deaf parents decided that their daughter would not get the implant and moved to a deaf community. That way they could live in their own safe world.
I was very mad at the parents by the end of the movie. I couldn’t understand why the parents wouldn’t want better for their daughter. They went through the struggles of trying to live in the hearing world and they didn’t want to help her through that. It really upset me.
After we finished we watched a fallow up video of the family a few years after. I’m very glad we watched it because the way the movie ended I couldn’t stand the parents. The fallow up video showed that after a few years the parents changed their minds and let their daughter get the implant. The mother even got one. If the family had given it to her earlier her speech would have been better but I’m glad they still did it. What some people didn’t understand was you don’t have to leave your deafness behind. Take it off and you’re deaf again. She could help bring the two worlds together.
III. How many children that receive the implant have two deaf parents?
N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Apr 2011. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201091620.htm>.
Web. 3 Apr 2011. <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Sound_and_Fury.jpg/220px-Sound_and_Fury.jpg>.
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