[Millie Tansill]

In addition to Lisa’s good answer: I have been involved with the Deaf community and have read a number of books on their culture. Cochlear implants never really work for someone who gets them at the age of 2-3 or older — it has to do with the age your brain learns how to ‘hear.’ So then you’ve got a kid who has a hard time both fitting into the Hearing world and the Deaf world — he can’t understand language well enough aurally, and certainly no one has ever worked on exposing him to the Deaf world, so he doesn’t know ASL and is seen as an outsider there. Then, there’s always the fact that cochlear implants are a very new and untested technology and the only way to truly test it is to surgically insert a device into a newborn infant’s ear (a dangerous operation)! And, most importantly of all: Deaf adults wonder why they aren’t consulted for a solution when Hearing parents are faced with a deaf newborn.

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Name : Millie Tansill, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Lutheran, Age : 24, City : Alexandria, State : VA, Country : United States, Occupation : television, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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