Stop Sharing Those Feel-Good Cochlear Implant Videos | by The Establishment | The Estab... - 0 views
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john roach on 27 Aug 22"A cochlear implant is a medical device surgically placed in the inner ear, which transmits sound signals to the brain and can allow some deaf people to hear again, or hear for the first time. For hearing people, a video of a deaf person experiencing sound may look like a scientific and personal triumph. But for a deaf person, even a cochlear implant user like me, these "feel-good" videos are often a bit tasteless at best, ableist at worst."