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I had pondered on this question just few days ago. If I had a deaf child, no, I will not opt for a CI. I won't be pushed into anything by medical staff.

More students at state school for deaf, blind as administrator seeks more funding More students at state school for deaf, blind as administrator seeks more funding | The Republic

Study says deaf pupils let down at school - The Irish Times - Mon, Feb 06, 2012 DEAF CHILDREN leave school at 18 with a reading age of nine and numeracy levels of 10- to 12 year-olds despite having normal intelligence, research has shown. Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald said she...

BBC News - Living outside the hearing world For several years cochlear implants have offered some deaf people the chance to have a "sensation of sound". So why would some deaf teenagers choose not to have the implant even if they had the option? The issue of cochlear implants and efforts...

Deaf kids level with hearing peers | Adelaide Now KLEMZIG Primary School students are signing up to a public school first - learning the art of Auslan. Auslan, or Australian Sign Language, is being taught to both the school's hearing and deaf students as the school's language other than...

RN-T.com - Deaf GNTC grad beats the odds A poor deaf child from Jamaica is now a family man and graduate of Georgia Northwestern Technical College It took a long journey, full of struggle and persistence, for Rome resident Norris Maxwell to get where he is today. Once a child begging for food...

Charges dropped against deaf man arrested at G20 protest - The Globe and Mail All charges have been dropped against a 32-year-old deaf man who was arrested during the G20 protests in Toronto a year and a half ago. Emomotimi Azorbo, who also cannot speak, was arrested on June 25, 2010, as...

Deaf club holds second Super Bowl party - Local News Story - St. Joseph The leader of a St. Joseph club for the deaf showed understandable favoritism Sunday to a Super Bowl quarterback empathetic toward those with disabilities. Scott Dollar, who is president of the Cross Roads Deaf Club...

Reprieve for deaf services facing the axe in Salford | Manchester Evening News - menmedia.co.uk A town hall has given a stay of execution to services for deaf children, the disabled and the elderly. Salford council is to re-think plans to cut its specialist teaching team for deaf...

Moorhead college expands program as sign language interpreters in high demand | INFORUM | Fargo, ND A shortage of sign language interpreters in the region has officials from a local college taking matters into their own hands. Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead is...

No charges for sheriff's "unjust" force | Calgary | News | Calgary Sun The sheriff who physically accosted a sick and deaf Red Deer man at a court house will not be criminally charged, the Sun has learned. Bill Berry, a 52-year-old cancer survivor, who is deaf and mute, was left...

Deaf IDP refuses to let disability stop her - YouTube

DRDO develops low cost hearing device - Hindustan Times The DRDO has developed an affordable cochlear implant which can help millions of deaf people to hear again. The cochlear implant is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly...