Journal article
Growing up with a cochlear implant: education, vocation, and affiliation
Journal of deaf studies and deaf education, Vol.17(4), pp.483-498
2012
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/ens024
PMCID: PMC3459294
PMID: 22949609
Abstract
The long-term educational/vocational, affiliation, and quality-of-life outcomes of the first and second cohorts of children with bilateral, profound hearing loss who received cochlear implants under a large National Institutes of Health-funded study was investigated in 41 of 61 eligible participants. Educational and vocational outcomes were collected from user survey data. Affiliation and quality-of-life data were collected from the Satisfaction-with-Life scale and the Deaf Identity Scale. Qualitative results indicated that compared with their hearing, adult-age peers, this group obtained high educational achievement, and they reported a very high satisfaction of life. With respect to forming an identity in these first 2 cohorts of cochlear implant users, we found that most of the individuals endorsed a dual identity, which indicates they feel just as comfortable with Deaf individuals as they do with hearing individuals. Quantitative results revealed a significant relationship between ability to hear and ability to speak, in addition to consistency of device use. Additional relationships were found between mother's and the individual's educational statuses, hearing scores, and communication system used. Younger individuals scored higher on satisfaction-with-life measures, and they also tended to endorse a dual identity more often. Taken together, these findings diminish concerns that profoundly deaf individuals growing up with cochlear implants will become culturally bereft and unable to function in the hearing world.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Growing up with a cochlear implant: education, vocation, and affiliation
- Creators
- Linda J Spencer - Department of Special Education/Communication Disorders and Sciences, New Mexico State University, 2850 Weddell Street, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001, USA. spencer1@nmsu.eduJ Bruce TomblinBruce J Gantz
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of deaf studies and deaf education, Vol.17(4), pp.483-498
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1093/deafed/ens024
- PMID
- 22949609
- PMCID
- PMC3459294
- ISSN
- 1081-4159
- eISSN
- 1465-7325
- Grant note
- P50 DC000242 / NIDCD NIH HHS 2 P50 DC00242 / NIDCD NIH HHS RR00059 / NCRR NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2012
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgery; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984006312002771
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