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Forty years of “Waltzing Matilda”: the history of the multichannel cochlear implant
Author(s) -
Ho Joyce PK,
North Hannah,
Singh Narinder P
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja18.00365
Subject(s) - media studies , medicine , art , history , sociology
While they do not provide the recipient with normal hearing, cochlear implants allow patients to hear sounds sufficiently well to be able to develop useable speech and language. At the end of 2012, it was estimated that more than 320 000 devices had been implanted worldwide. Now regarded as an acceptable option for providing auditory sensation in people with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss, the cochlear implant was initially met with criticism by some communities, and even regarded as an attack on the Deaf community.