Perspectives of Deaf Culture With the awareness of the Deaf Community becoming stronger with everyday people are beginning to form two major positions on Deaf Culture. ... The cultural model sees the Deaf community as a group of people that are bonded together by a language and culture of their own. Most Deaf people and people that have been exposed to Deaf culture share this opinion. ... I also chose this topic because I know it is relevant to deaf people. ... He is a student at OSU and I know he has problems with people that don't have any knowledge of the Deaf Community. ...

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Advances in technology, including cochlear implants, have changed the lives of people with hearing problems. ... People who are deaf are those with profound hearing loss who cannot understand sounds without or without hearing aids and people who are hard of hearing are those with hearing losses that impair their understanding of sounds, including communication, profit from listening devices and other hearing technologies that enable them to comprehend oral speech and communication (Smith, 2007). ... The development of the hearing aids has had a significant impact on the lives of people with h...

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People have to learn what sounds are and through time will be able to master the art of listening and hearing. ... Then, acquiring a job as a computer systems analyst, she had to work with people who did not know sign. ... We come to realize the people from these two different worlds view the cochlear implants in different lights. ... On the other hand, hearing people can't imagine why a deaf person wouldn't want to get a cochlear implant. ... As a communication disorder, there is much to learn how people cope with it. ...

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Something interesting has been noted about the way deaf people hug each other. It is said that hearing people hug in an "A-frame" fashion whereas deaf people fully embrace each other. ... But not everyone chooses one or the other; in fact most deaf people use a system that lies somewhere between the two. ... ThisThese give gives deaf people something new to adapt to that hearing people don't have to deal with. It's a visual cue that hearing people see and instantly begin to draw conclusions about what are usually unwelcome too many deaf. ...

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Being deaf in those days had its ups and downs. ... Right up in till the 1950s, people believed that deafness to be so terrible it had to be cured in any way imaginable, even if the cure risked bodily harm. ... So as you can see this made life some what easier for deaf people as well as others with disabilities. ... As the laws were passed and technological advances had been made, life in the 1980s became a bit better for deaf people. ... Closed Captioning made it possible for deaf people to watch and enjoy television. ...

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Hearing people can never fully understand the consequences a deaf person goes through when their final choice has been made. Most Deaf people embrace their community and would never want to change themselves in order to fit society's standards as to what is "normal." ... On the other side of the coin, are the people who don"t wish to have the implant. ... I feel very comfortable around people that share the interests and are going through the same situations that I am. Who is to say that hearing world is better than the deaf? ...

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They see it as a way of eliminating the deaf community and their culture. ... With more and more people getting cochlear implants, the increase in cochlear technology, and the diseases that cause hearing loss becomes eliminated, the signing deaf community's demographics are likely to change markedly in the next few decades (Chorost, 2005). ... Other neuroprosthetics raise concerns about the alteration of people's bodies. ... Many people believe that our bodies are natural places and God created them a certain way. ... Many ethics must be followed when research for neuroprosthetics oc...

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Forty years ago, it was first demonstrated that direct electrical stimulation of the cochlea could restore auditory sensations in people with profound sensorineural hearing loss. ... Cochlear implants (CIs) are prescribed only for people with severe to profound hearing impairments who cannot benefit at all from conventional hearing aids. ... Following implantation, successful CI users experience a change from total deafness to a level of restored hearing that allows them to talk on the telephone, attend movies and music concerts, and participate in community meetings and social gatherings. ...

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Later that week, I went to a speech and hearing center and found out that my hearing was getting to the point where I could become legally deaf. ... Personally, I thought they were cool until the hearing aid started to whistle causing people to ask me "what's that in your ear." When people questioned me about my hearing aids; I stopped wearing them. ... Finally, my senior year in high school, I was more involved with people and had to do a great deal of communication with the public. ...

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