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The story was about two different family about there children having cochlear implant for there child so one family is deaf and they had 4 year old daughter who wanted an Cochlear implant and the other family had hearing parents and had twins so one new born baby was deaf.
The 4 year old girl wanted an implant because she wanted to hear but her family didn’t. They want her to learn about deaf culture but they made an effert to find out information. First the mother tried to find information about the implant and she wanted to find out the negative and positive feedbacks. They went to the specialist and 2 different families. They also went to school for children and find out what they l.learn. They went to one family and they found out that the child isn’t learning anything about deaf culture and they were upset. The parents gave wrong information to the child it isn’t good and the guys parents were upset that they are taking an oppertunity away from there daughter to hear. THey know how its like to be treated because they saw that the deaf dad going through a lot. The deaf parents decided to move somewhere else where there is a good deaf community so they are all comfortable around people.
Family number two had twins and one boy was deaf. The parents came home all disappointed and the mothers parents were deaf. They decided to have the implant done for there child but the deaf grand parents didn’t agree because they are blessed. The grandmother said I will raise the deaf child and the mother can go away. The parents of the new born wanted their child to explore sounds and learn about the real world. They finally go and get it done.
I would personally would not want to get it done for my new born or 4 year old because god blessed them. I believe that there is another world after we live here when we die. God will give those children a lot of things in that world what ever they didn’t think of. If they are deaf , it isn’t that bad to live without hearing because

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