Coming to my senses : one woman's cochlear implant journey / Claire H. Blatchford.

"Deafened at the age of six, Claire Blatchford was educated orally with speech lessons, speechreading, and hearing aids. Though successful both professionally and domestically, at the age of 67 Blatchford decided to undergo a cochlear implantation. In this memoir, she describes in prose and ver...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Blatchford, Claire H. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Blatchford, Claire H. > Health. Blatchford, Claire H. Cochlear implants > Patients > United States > Biography. Cochlear implants. MEDICAL > Surgery > General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General Cochlear implants Health United States Personal narratives Biographies Personal narratives. Récits personnels.
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Table of Contents:

The inner debate
Moment of decision
Surgery and a few days after
Activation and shortly after
First mapping
Baby steps: early discoveries and observations
From baby steps to toddler steps: explorations in listening
My own voice
More about bluffing
Children
Birds
Music
Move to ponder
Bigger steps yet
To sum things up
Appendix: An audiologist explains the cochlear implant / JJeanne Coburn.

Coming to my senses : one woman's cochlear implant journey / Claire H. Blatchford.

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