Monday, November 5, 2007
Deaf Visitor in Class
Tonight in class I mentioned a former student of mine, Jena, who has a cochlear implant. She is currently a student at RIT/NTID in Rochester, New York but is home this quarter. She is the person who paged me tonight during class. I met her after class tonight for a bite to eat and mentioned our class discussion. She has agreed to come to class next week and share with you some of her experiences with the cochlear implant as well as general experiences with how language issues have impacted her learning experiences throughout her education. I will conduct an interview as well as give you a time to do Q & A with her. I am excited to have her come to class. See you next week!
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That sounds really intersting. I hope that she can come it would be a treat to hear about her cochlear implant and how it changed her life.
I agree, this sounds very interesting! As I said in class, the only things i have learned about cochlear implants from my American Sign Language classes have been negative. I am very inteterested to see how the cochlear implant affected her life in a positive way. I am also interested in hearing if she has heard any negative comments made toward her from other Deaf people regarding her cochlear implant.
I can't wait until she comes to class. I am interested in what all she had to go through with the cochlear implant. Like what speech programs, how it feels with the cochlear implant, and how hard it was to learn english once she was able to hear it.
I am so excited to be able to meet someone that has a cochlear implant. That device is really interesting to me, and i look forward to meeting her and understanding what all she has been through in her life, and how the implant has helped her!
I am really excited about the visitor next week. Just as Maggie had mentioned, I have only heard negative views on the cochlear implant and I look forward to seeing what the visitor's views are on the implant and how the implant has influenced her life. Can't wait!!!
I just wish that Sekoe could also come to class at the same time. He does NOT have a cochlear implant, does not wear hearing aids and would NEVER get an implant. He and Jena are like brother and sister. It would be GREAT if I could have them both in class at the same time. Impossible. He won't be home until December 21st.
I'm really excited to hear what she has to say about her cochlear implant and how it has worked out for her, and I agree it would be really neat to see what Sekoe has to say about not wanting one and how you make that decision.
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