Disability Studies 1010A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cochlear Implant, List Of Races And Species In The Hitchhiker'S Guide To The Galaxy, Deaf Culture

• School: Western University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: Disability Studies 1010A/B
• Professor: Jeff Preston

Document Summary

Implants and ethnocide learning from the cochlear implant controversy. The babel fish turns sound waves to brain waves and allows them to understand the speech of aliens that they meet along their travels. Despite its controversy, it helps us to understand the cochlear implant controversy. Its development is hailed as medical progress, which is why people are surprised to hear that many deaf people aren"t as enthusiastic about it. Many people who are deaf consider themselves to be a part of deaf culture and have been critical of putting the implant in young children. This is significantly recommended by physicians in order to give children the time to get used to the implant and understand language that is spoken. Implants that currently exist aren"t as effective as the babel fish, deafness is an organic dysfunction as opposed to a language marker, and the next generation of potential members of.