The Cochlear Implant
The cochlear implant is possibly one of the greatest
inventions designed to benefit the deaf community. A
cochlear implant is a device implanted internally behind a
deaf persons ear with an external microphone, and is
designed to provide artificial sounds to people who have
nerve deafness in both ears and show no ability to
understand speech through hearing aids. Since the
development of the cochlear implant in the 1960's, more
than 10,000 people worldwide have been implanted with this
device.
Although this may seem like the perfect device to aid
deafness, a lot of controversy still exists about the cochlear
implant. There are many advantages and disadvantages
about the implant. I will start by discussing the advantages.
The cochlear implant has allowed many deaf people to live
out ‘hearing lives'. During the 1960's, more primitive
implants allowed for partial hearing, the percentage of words
that could be understood without lip......
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