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A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted electronic device that can help provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing. The cochlear implant is often referred to as a bionic ear. Unlike other kinds of hearing aids, the cochlear implant doesn't amplify sound, but works by directly stimulating any functioning auditory nerves inside the cochlea with electrical impulses. External components of the cochlear implant include a microphone, speech processor and transmitter.
An implant does not restore or create normal hearing. Instead, under the appropriate conditions, it can give a deaf person a useful auditory understanding of the environment and help them to understand speech when coupled with post-implantation therapy. According to researchers at the University of Michigan *, approximately 100,000 people worldwide have received cochlear implants; roughly half are children and half adults. The vast majority are in developed countries due to the prohibitive cost of the device, surgery and post-implantation therapy — Mexico had performed only 55 cochlear implant operations by the year 2000 (Berruecos 2000).
Cochlear implants have met some controversy as their introduction has seen the renewal of a century-old debate about models of deafness that often has the medical profession on one side and the Deaf community on the other. While cochlear implants have been welcomed by late-deafened adults, hearing parents of deaf children, audiologists, speech pathologists, and surgeons, the implantation of deaf children has been vigorously opposed by many from the signing Deaf community.
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It is common sense to make cochlear implants available to those who need them for life #fdksap http://theage.com.au/national-ksap.html
huffasintuff (Adam Hough) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:30:50 -0000
It is common sense to make cochlear implants available to those who need them for life #fdksap http://theage.com.au/national-ksap.html
PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR TODAY! MAY 1, 2010 "Skills, Strategies & Survival Working with Children Wearing Cochlear Implants." Workshop!
UTHSCSADEHS (DEHS) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:14:07 -0000
PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR TODAY! MAY 1, 2010 "Skills, Strategies & Survival Working with Children Wearing Cochlear Implants." Workshop!
A Decade of Implants: The Cochlear Implant Program of Eastern Carolina is celebrating a decade of operation. The se... http://bit.ly/5EUef4
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Tampa Bay- sound & fury dvd (dunedin): its bout a lil giril & her baby cousin getting cochlear implants in NYC, but... http://bit.ly/8efsIF
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Three siblings get 4 cochlear implants all on same day (going from being deaf to being able to hear) http://ow.ly/LfFc
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Three siblings get 4 cochlear implants all on same day (going from being deaf to being able to hear) http://ow.ly/LfFc
Advanced Bionics Corporation - Specializing in the field of implantable, high technology neurostimulation devices. Provides information about employment opportunities, products, and news items.
AllHear, Inc. - AllHear is a company which designs, manufactures and sells cochlear implants.
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AudiologyNet - Cochlear Implants links for research and information.
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Clarion Cochlear Implant - Advanced Bionics' Clarion Cochlear Implant is an electronic device designed to provide useful hearing and improved communication ability to individuals who are profoundly hearing impaired and unable to achieve speech understanding with hearing aids.
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Cochlear Clothing - Pocketed shirts designed for people with cochlear implants and other body worn devices.
Cochlear Implant Online - Information about Cochlear Implants and the experience of having an implant.
Cochlear Worldwide - Makers of a cochlear implant and a behind-the-ear speech processor.
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Dallas Cochlear Implant Program - The Dallas Otarlaryngology Cochlear Implant Team is a staff of highly specialized and proficient professionals who provide the highest level of diagnostic, surgical, and rehabilitative services in the area of cochlear implantation.
From Sound to Silence: The Development of Cochlear Implants - Article explores the basic scientific research by thousands of scientists in fields as disparate as physics, anatomy, neurophysiology, and information science, each of whom contributed pieces of information that led to a significant human benefit--the cochlear implant.
Medical Electronics - Enriching the lives of deaf children and adults with modern cochlear implants.
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Melbourne Hearing Research Group Web Site - The Bionic Ear Institute was established in 1984 by Professor Graeme Clark to support and undertake research to improve the Australian Bionic Ear (Cochlear Implant) which was pioneered by Professor Graeme Clark and his team in the 1970's and now provides hearing to over 20,000 profoundly or totally deaf adults and children.
North Texas Cochlear Implant Program - A multidisciplinary team of medical and allied specialists evaluating and assiting children with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. Details are given of the technology and its applications.
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The Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute Newsletter - Cochlear Implants: Restoring Hearing to the Deaf.
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