Posts Tagged ‘cochlear implant’

Marlee Matlin’s Scream

May 11, 2009 in Deaf Experiences, Deafness
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International Deaf Icon Marlee Matlin has recently published her autobiography “I’ll Scream Later”. She also guested at CNN’s Larry King Live which I failed to watch. (sigh)
Her book’s revelations about dealing with drug addiction at age 21 while receiving news of her Oscar nomination at the Betty Ford Center and being abused by her [...]

Have you accepted that your child is deaf?

July 5, 2008 in Deaf Experiences
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I remember a few years back, when I was faced with this serious situation. The parents together with their five year old deaf child went to our school. The mother asked my opinion as to what to do with their child. She inquired about what I could recommend to them as regards her child’s education. Now, that question was tough.

How successful is cochlear implant?

July 2, 2008 in Technologies
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My last post made me think deeper. Are cochlear implants proven to have a high success rate? The reason why I’m having serious doubts is when I was putting sub-titles on the video, I’m having a hard time listening to the speeches made by those two kids who have undergone the implant. So instead of deciphering what he is saying, I simply put [inaudible speech].

On Cochlear Implants and 3rd World Country

July 1, 2008 in Technologies
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Here is a 5-minute video documentary of a very popular TV program in our country that tells a story of a family trying to see if their child can undergo cochlear implant. Hosted by Ms. Sandra Aguinaldo, I-witness is a docu-research shown in GMA-7 last June 2008. The entire program is 30 minutes long so I edited it and shown only the parts related to CI. The language spoken is Tagalog so I added a sub-title in English for the benefit of our foreign viewers.