Grid for Assignment 2

Sources	Benefits with implants	Benefits without implants	Issues with implants	Issues without implants	Cultural views
“Letting the deaf be deaf”		"opens the child up to membership in the Deaf community, which has a rich history, language, and value system of its   own." Determines community membership.	“The oral language acquisition skills in many implant-using children is at this stage essentially nonexistent.” Poor efficacy	Talks about that the hearing world is majority. Children are often unable to get a good education.	Deafness is something to celebrate
“Cochlear Implants — Science, Serendipity, and Success”	“this combination permits better speech understanding in   multitalker settings, identification of the speaker's sex, and better reception of tonal languages.”		Does not restore normal hearing.	“feelings of hopelessness, despair, and even shame” “degrades the multiplicity of neural circuits that are responsible for information processing, especially those involved in the acquisition of speech and language.”	“Deafness impairs quality of life by relentlessly dismantling the machinery of human communication”
“Reconsidering Cochlear Implants: The Lessons of Martha’s Vineyard”	Belong to the hearing community	Belong to the deaf community	Losing deaf culture	Will remain isolated as a minority population Pg.152 “Burdens of deafness on hearing impaired”	Deafness is not a disability “Social origin”
“Cochlear Implantation for Children Opening Doors to Opportunity	“This technology affords them the ability to circumvent the effects of deafness and participate academically, socially, culturally, and vocationally with their hearing family and peers.”		Child can not decide for themselves. Adults are not as successful in treatment.	No sound and have limited communication options and can’t pursue “full potential”	“There is no dispute with those who argue that the child who is deaf has a right to the language and culture of the deaf. But these children also have a right to the language and culture of their biological family.  “
“Deaf Culture, Cochlear Implants, and Elective Disability”	Max efficiency in English skills with implants. Be able to hear and pay less for accommodations Pg. 8-10		Children don’t get to decide for themselves.	Children don’t get to decide for themselves. Costs of schools can increase.	“Deaf people lack one of the five senses” Pg. 7 Why would anyone “deny such pleasures”
“Will Sign Language Die?”	Learn how to mimic speech	ASL	“The rise of implants presents a challenge to   schools for the deaf.” Expensive.	People consider deaf people to be “Handicapped”	"This is a major intervention, and the ethics of operating on a healthy child can be questioned,"