Cochlear implants : evolving perspectives

Cochlear implants : evolving perspectives / Raylene Paludneviciene, Irene W. Leigh, editors.

Overview: The cochlear implant debate has changed, as evidenced in this cogent collection that presents 13 chapters by 20 experts, including several who communicate through sign language but also utilize cochlear implants. The impetus for this change stems from recognition that both visual and aural...

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Other Authors: Paludneviciene, Raylene, Leigh, Irene
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Cochlear implants.
Cochlear implants > Social aspects.
Deafness > Psychology.
Table of Contents:
  • Impact of cochlear implants on the deaf community / Raylene Paludneviciene and Raychelle L. Harris
  • Genetic research, bioethical issues, and cochlear implants : an overview of the issues affecting the deaf community / Jane Dillehay
  • Cochlear implants and deaf community perceptions / John B. Christiansen and Irene W. Leigh
  • How deaf adult signers experience implants : some preliminary conclusions / Khadijat Rashid, Poorna Kushalnagar, and Raja Kushalnagar
  • My child can have more choices : reflections of deaf mothers on cochlear implants for their children / Julie Mitchiner and Marilyn Sass-Lehrer
  • Cochlear implants : implications for deaf identities / Irene W. Leigh and Deborah Maxwell-McCaw
  • Bimodal processing of language for cochlear implant users / Donna A. Morere
  • Listening strategies to facilitate spoken language learning among signing children with cochlear implants / Ellen A. Rhoades
  • The cochlear implant education center : perspectives on effective educational practices / Debra Berlin Nussbaum and Susanne M. Scott
  • Educating children with cochlear implants in an ASL/English bilingual classroom / Maribel Garate
  • Application of auditory (re)habilitation teaching focuses behaviors to a signed communication education context / Jill Duncan
  • Sensory politics and the cochlear implant debates / Joseph Michael Valente, Benjamin Bahan, and H-Dirksen Bauman
  • Embracing change : cochlear implants and the new deaf community paradigm / Josh Swiller.

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