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 their kids to talk. Some parents, however, feel very differently, because curing deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. "Made to Hear" sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear.
Based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the...
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 plummet...
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 their kids to talk. Some parents, however, feel very differently, because curing deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. "Made to Hear" sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear.
Based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the...
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 plummet...
