The cochlear implant and the Deaf community

Letting the Deaf Be Deaf Reconsidering the Use of Cochlear Implants in Prelingually Deaf Children

“…Images of banishment and isolation abound. One writer claims that the deaf are “ cut off from their families and other hearing people.” 5 Echoing this sentiment, an otologist writes that the deaf are “like foreigners in their own country.” 6 The medical profession, implicitly endorsing Samuel Johnson's remark that deafness is “one of the most desperate of human calamities,” has adopted the goal of fixing the hearing loss of its young patients 7…”