A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the
sign language program at her daughter's school is plummeting:“The majority of parents want …

This article provides an ethnographic account of pediatric cochlear implantation, revealing
an important shift in the definition of deafness from a sensory loss to a neurological …

Objective To examine changing parent and deaf community perspectives related to pediatric
cochlear implantation. Design This research is based primarily on 2 nonrandom study …

The second edition of this guide offers a readable, comprehensive summary of everything a
parent or teacher would want to know about raising and educating a deaf child. It covers …

Cochlear Implants in Children: Ethics and Choices addresses every facet of the ongoing
controversy about implanting cochlear hearing devices in children as young as 12 months …

In theory, cochlear implants hold out the possibility of enabling profoundly prelingually deaf
children to hear. For these children's parents, who are usually hearing, this possibility is a …

This paper reviews the impact that cochlear implantation has had on the practice of deaf
education in terms of educational placement, communication choices, and educational …

For both adults and children who have significant hearing losses, hearing aids have long
provided some support for hearing language and environmental sounds. However, because …

It has now been well established that cochlear implants are reliable and effective devices for
significantly improving access to sound for deaf individuals. This study, titled “Cochlear …

This paper uses the fictional case of the 'Babel fish'to explore and illustrate the issues
involved in the controversy about the use of cochlear implants in prelinguistically deaf …