Open AccessCochlear Implants & the Mediated Classroom-Clinic: Communication Technologies and Co-operations Across Multiple Industries
Author(s) -
Laura Mauldin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
disability studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2159-8371
pISSN - 1041-5718
DOI - 10.18061/dsq.v31i4.1713
Subject(s) - active listening , cochlear implantation , cochlear implant , ethnography , assistive technology , audiology , information and communications technology , medical education , psychology , medicine , computer science , sociology , communication , human–computer interaction , world wide web , anthropology
Keywords deaf education, cochlear implant, technology, medicine, controversy Abstract This article considers the ways in which cochlear implantation, as a form of mediated communication, is altering deaf education classrooms and programs. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, I use a case study of a "model program" to illustrate how one deaf education program integrates implant technology and the regimens of healthcare systems into day-to-day school life. Data show the constellation of multi-institutional co-operations in deaf educational programs that have occurred with the routinization of pediatric cochlear implants (CIs) and concurrent technological developments in assistive listening devices. In the analysis, I propose new questions that should be asked as this highly sophisticated iteration in the history of auditory training continues to grow.