Resources: About.com
Jamie Berke is one of the 475 “guides” at About.com, a website that offers personal advice on everything from table tennis to headaches. She was deafened in the Rubella outbreak in the ’60s and has degrees from Gaulladet University, the leading institution devoted to deaf studies. She is About.com’s “deafness/hard of hearing” guide (http://deafness.about.com) and provides a wealth of advice and information on how to cope with hearing loss.
What About Cochlear Implants?
There’s a terrific story in today’s Wall Street Journal about the rapid increase in the number of children receiving implants before the age of three. To date approximately 10,000 children have received cochlear implants in the U.S., and the reported results are outstanding: kids who in the past would have found it very difficult to develop normal speech are able to start hearing early enough to learn spoken language at a normal developmental age. Read more