Kylie Gets a Cochlear Implant
Kylie Gets a Cochlear Implant

Author: Marilyn C. Rose

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1625161700

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Kylie Gets a Cochlear Implant is the heartwarming story of a little girl who loses her hearing and is heartbroken about the things she believes she can no longer do. Kylie loves to dance, but fears that without hearing the music, she won't be able to feel the beat or the rhythm. She is very sad until she hears about a way to overcome her hearing loss. See what happens when Kylie undergoes a cochlear implant, which is a surgically implanted device that can help her hear sound and music. In fact, cochlear implants can be so successful that they are often called bionic ears! Written by a teacher who works with deaf children, this story shows insight into what these brave children face. Marilyn C. Rose finished her Ph.D. at the same time she was writing this book. A graduate of Hunter College and the NYU Graduate School of Education, she is a public school teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing in New York City. She grew up in the Bronx and now lives with her husband, Marc, in Bayside, New York. "I have three grown wonderful sons and my family is the light of my life!" This is her first book. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/MarilynCRose

Sunny and Her Cochlear Implants
Sunny and Her Cochlear Implants

Author: Susanna Dussling

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 1452016364

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Follow Sunny as she lives her life as a deaf child, in a hearing world, with hearing aids. Then, her life changes when her aids no longer help - but there is a solution. Sunny is about hope, acceptance and a positive "can do" attitude. This book is the first in a new series. In future books, follow Sunny's adventures as she uses special tools such as a bed-shaker alarm clock, flashing telephone signaler, etc. to live her life.

Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine
Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine

Author: Arno Görgen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-10

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 3319906771

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This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry. From comic books to health professionals, from the arts to genetics, from sci-fi to medical education, from TV series to ethics, it offers different entry points to an exciting and central aspect of contemporary culture: how and what we learn about (and from) scientific knowledge and its representation in pop culture. Divided into three sections the handbook surveys the basics, the micro-, and the macroaspects of this interaction between specialized knowledge and cultural production: After the introduction of basic concepts of and approaches to the topic from a variety of disciplines, the respective theories and methods are applied in specific case studies. The final section is concerned with larger social and historical trends of the use of biomedical knowledge in popular culture. Presenting over twenty-five original articles from international scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds, this handbook introduces the topic of pop culture and biomedicine to both new and mature researchers alike. The articles, all complete with a rich source of further references, are aimed at being a sincere entry point to researchers and academic educators interested in this somewhat unexplored field of culture and biomedicine.

Raising Kids with Cochlear Implants
Raising Kids with Cochlear Implants

Author: Amy Milani Ph. D.

Publisher:

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780991403202

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In her book, Raising Kids with Cochlear Implants, Amy Milani shares personal narratives about her experience raising a son and daughter with cochlear implants. Excerpts from a journal she wrote following her son's surgery describe exactly how he began listening and learning language with a cochlear implant. Stories pulled from daily life as expatriates in Germany reveal how her son acquires a selection of favorite words. When her daughter is also born with hearing loss, the family moves back to the U.S. to find an appropriate preschool and support system for cochlear implants and to fully embrace oral deaf education. In alternate chapters, Amy discusses broader issues affecting family life such as the challenges a young child faces wearing equipment and the social implications of hearing in a way that's unfamiliar to most people. Her narratives provide authentic evidence of the joys and struggles parents experience when helping children with cochlear implants transition into the hearing world. Speaking from thirteen years of experience, Amy addresses the commitment required by parents to help their children learn to listen and speak with cochlear implants. Her personal narratives are of a family ready to take on the responsibility for their children's hearing well beyond surgery. She explains how her son and daughter are part of a new generation of kids identified early with hearing loss who grow up with cochlear implants, relying on parents to make it all happen. She calls these children "Generation CI." In this book, she motivates new parents to get answers about their child's hearing loss and hopes to reach those who are interested in learning more about what life is like for families with young children who have cochlear implants.

I Dared to Dream
I Dared to Dream

Author: Julie Husting

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-13

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781794742703

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Julie Husting began losing her hearing when she was a teenager in high school. For thirty years she wore hearing aids. During that time, her hearing loss deteriorated from moderate to profound until she was relying on lip reading the majority of the time. Hearing aids made sounds louder, but they did not make speech clear. When it was dark or she couldn't see a person's lips, she could not understand what they were saying. She was "hearing" with her eyes and not her ears. She never dreamed her hearing would ever get better until her audiologist suggested she get a cochlear implant. It was after that day that she faced all of the things she could no longer do and dared to dream . . . Julie had her first cochlear implant surgery in 2012. Electrodes were inserted into her cochlea. They bypassed the damaged areas and directly stimulated the auditory nerve. This surgery allowed her to eventually hear speech clearly and enjoy music again. This book spans the first six years of Julie's life with cochlear implants and is written in chronological order. It details the wide-ranging activities that Julie experienced during those years, and shows that good hearing with a cochlear implant is not instantaneous, but rather, a journey. Also included are inspirational presentations Julie has given on "Success Comes When Expectations Are Realistic" and "How Long Does It Take?" as well as tips on cochlear implant surgery and activation.

Emma's Ears
Emma's Ears

Author: Gianna Righi

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-11-13

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781541393714

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Emma was born profoundly deaf. She tells you the story of her ears, from hearing aids to the cochlear implants she gets at two years old. This book is meant to explain to a young child the idea behind and process of receiving a cochlear implant. Whether the child themselves has cochlear implants or has a classmate who does, this book provides a story that is both realistic and age-appropriate.

Hearing Differently
Hearing Differently

Author: Karina Cotran

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05-09

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 9781987936476

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A collection of seventeen short stories that follow Karina Cotran after she receives a Cochlear Implant when she is seven years old. Karina recounts how she adjusted to the surgically implanted device as a little girl, teenager and young woman, and how it affected her relations with family, friends, school, and the occasional boy.