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On December 17th, 2007, the same day I got my other ear implanted, the Palo Alto Daily News ran a good story about the legal foundation that helped make it possible. See the story here.
Check out Josh Swiller’s website about his new book, The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa.
Here’s a YouTube version of my segment in a TV pilot I wrote:
The full video is at 22nd Century. It originally aired on January 17, 2007.
Here’s an interview with me (Word document) in Hearing Loss Magazine that ran in the Jan/Feb 2007 issue.
And here’s a cool video the Exploratorium, a science museum in San Francisco, made about cochlear implants, starring yours truly.
My friend Joe Quirk’s the author of Sperm Are From Men, Eggs Are From Women: The Real Reason Why Men and Women Are Different. It’s a wonderful book. Go buy it.
More items:
Two helpful blogs about raising children with cochlear implants: Kristen Scifres and Grendel’s Kitchen.
A simulation of what a cochlear implant sounds like (it’s a PowerPoint file).
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders - a useful source of information on cochlear implants
Healthy Hearing - a very comprehensive website on hearing loss, hearing aids, and cochlear implants
The world’s three leading manufacturers of cochlear implants are:
My implant center, the California Ear Institute, runs a program for giving cochlear implants to lower-income children and children in countries which lack the money or facilities to undertake the surgery. It’s called the Let Them Hear Foundation.
The John Tracy Clinic is an outstanding preschool for children with hearing loss and other communicative disorders in L.A. They also have a correspondence course for parents of deaf children around the world. My mom took it when I was a child; I discuss this in the book.
A recent story in the Wall Street Journal on how cochlear implants are transforming deaf education
Neurotech Reports - a good site on neurotechnologies, with a number of well-written free sample reports.
NeuroInsights - analyzes the neurotech market industry.
Donna Haraway’s landmark paper, A Cyborg Manifesto. I discuss this paper extensively in Chapter 9 of my book, "A Kinship with the Machines."
The University of New South Wales (Australia) has a good site on research related to pitch perception in cochlear implants. This is part of an outstanding site on music acoustics.