Cochlear implant and the deaf culture</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Cochlear implant and the deaf culture"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Cochlear,implant,and,the,deaf,culture"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">10-11-2004</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Cochlear implant and the deaf culture</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Michigan, USA: Developed in the 1980s, the cochlear implant functions by altering sounds into electrical energy, which then stimulates a deaf person’s surviving auditory nerve fibers to allow the user to hear. The implant is also attached to an external sound processor that both detects sound and powers the hearing device. <br> <br>But in the past, many in the deaf community rejected the implant out of the concern that the device would threaten the existence of the deaf culture. Many believed the implant would transform a deaf person into a hearing person - which goes against the deaf culture. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http:// http://www.michigandaily.com " target="blank"> http://www.michigandaily.com </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show