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From: Mark.Blevis@f223.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Blevis)
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Subject: RE: COCHLEAR IMPLANT
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Date: 3 May 91 04:09:11 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

What I meant by society dictates the need for Christa to have the
surgery is that society is not going to bend towards the deaf.
Society is not going to learn sign language so that Christa feels
comfortable.  The deaf have to learn how to lip read, and have to
have surgery so that society is comfortable with them.  I know that
deaf people can funtion well in society, but they have to do the
work.  I would have thought that my comment was self-evident.

Also, the cochlear implant doesn't give speech, that's a known
fact.  It allows a deaf person to hear mechanical representations
of noise around them, including to some extent themselves.  I'm not
sure if you are deaf or not, but have you ever tried talking when
you can't hear yourself?  It's just the same way that a singer in a
band needs a monitor on stage so that they can hear what they are
singing so that they don't miss any notes.  And certainly, if it
can't help them distinguish sounds, recipients of the cochlear
implant can at least tell when someone is calling them.

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