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81Cochlear Implant & Cell Phones
The issues of cochlear implants and phones are predominant. People with cochlear implants are enjoying the luxuries they never really had before - conversing on the phones. This article discusses the cochlear implant and cell phone solutions/compatibilities.
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78Hearing - How Do We Hear?
The organs of hearing or audition are your ears. These, along with the cochlear nerves and brain, allow us to hear. Sound waves enter the outer ear, which consists of the ear flap, made of cartilage and...
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76How Cochlear Implants Work
Cochlea (pronounced 'coke lee uh'): This is a portion of the inner ear that looks similar to a nautilus or snail shell1. (see image below). It's function is to convert sound waves entering the inner ear and...
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69Sign Language for Children - It Can Change Lives: Helen Keller
You may have heard of Helen Keller. You might have read her story in grade school, seen the play "The Miracle Worker," or seen one of the many excellent movies about Helen. She and her Teacher, Annie...
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73Cochlear implants - bane or hope for deaf children?
A child gets a cochlear implant while debate continues around the ethics of the procedure
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70Cochlear implants
There are varying degrees of hearing loss. Some individuals use hearing aids or other devices to enhance their hearing, while those with extreme hearing loss may undergo surgery and have a cochlear implant...
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66What happens when a Deaf marry a normal?
It's fairly a good idea to have a family life with a normal hearing person. Good margins of the deaf do prefer another deaf for a hand in marriage why? The main obstacles...
67cybernetics
Cybernetics: The perfect harmony between man and machine, encapsulated within a word that sounds so utterly ominous when it slides across the tongue. Cyborg. Images of half-men forced to depend upon plastic...
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64Deafness In Films
I am fluent in American Sign Language and have spent quite a bit of my life in the deaf community. I was married to a deaf man for eight years, raised foster children with hearing impairment, and was...
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58The Gift of Sound
The gift of Sound Indeed, sound is a precious gift.... specially for someone who had profound deafness due to illness or accident and for those who are born deaf. We tend to often take things like these...
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