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11-Year-Old Boy Hears For the First Time as Scientists Get Closer to Finding a Cure for Hearing Loss (www.headphonesty.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

I remember reading before how getting your hearing repaired through surgery (when possible) can get you ostracized from deaf communities. Some consider their deafness to be part of their identity, and regaining your hearing can be treated as sacrificing your identity/heritage.

[–] alphacyberranger 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here's an article talking about it

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The controversy is sometimes difficult for hearing people to understand. Hearing people often assume that Deaf people would naturally want to take advantage of any method that could lead them to become part of the hearing world — especially cochlear implants, the most advanced hearing technology we have. In reality, that assumption is far from true. To members of Deaf culture, American Sign Language is a cultural cornerstone. Because Deaf children who receive cochlear implants at a young age will likely be educated in the oralist method, they are less likely to learn ASL during their early years, which are the most critical years of language acquisition. For some Deaf parents, that would result in a child who speaks a different language than they do.

The article covers a lot more than that, so I recommend reading it to get the full picture.

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