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Coming to My Senses

Claire Blatchford author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

Published:9th Jan '15

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Deaf at age six, Blatchford was educated with speech lessons, speech reading, and hearing aids. At the age of 62 she underwent a cochlear implantation. In this memoir she describes living with a cochlear implant, including her realization that amplification and comprehension are not the same. Gradually the soup of sound she heard at first gave way to a selective hearing of sentences. When asked by other deaf people if they should receive an implant, she cautions that it is an individual decision.

ISBN: 9781563686153

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Weight: unknown

136 pages