Case Lesson 6: Family Narrative Hearing Loss
Sophia Brier-Heimbach
Ms. Vann
English 9
August 22, 2013
Unit 1 Lesson 6 - Family Narrative Hearing loss My grandma started to lose her hearing when she was twenty years old. It has decreased harshly over the years. Her hearing became as weak as four percent. It was very frustrating to deal with for both her and all of us around her. Hearing aids couldn’t handle her loss and she had to have surgery to overcome her disability. She also had to learn other ways to communicate like sign language. None of us really know how her hearing loss started. We all think it may have been because she would turn her headphones up too loud, go to loud concerts, and she worked in a factory. It is very difficult to pin point every cause of her hearing loss because there are so many possibilities of why her hearing loss increased. …show more content…
According to the FDA, “A cochlear implant is an implanted electronic hearing device, designed to produce useful hearing sensations to a person with severe to profound nerve deafness by electrically stimulating nerves inside the inner ear.” (Medical Devices-Cochlear Implant ) She doesn’t have any hearing in her right ear. She has a Hearing aid in her left ear because she still has 15% hearing. Once she gets down to 0% she will have another procedure done to insert another Cochlear Implant. The implant has really helped her hearing. With the Cochlear Implant in, she has almost perfect hearing. When she takes all of her devices out she has a little box that sits by
Ms. Vann
English 9
August 22, 2013
Unit 1 Lesson 6 - Family Narrative Hearing loss My grandma started to lose her hearing when she was twenty years old. It has decreased harshly over the years. Her hearing became as weak as four percent. It was very frustrating to deal with for both her and all of us around her. Hearing aids couldn’t handle her loss and she had to have surgery to overcome her disability. She also had to learn other ways to communicate like sign language. None of us really know how her hearing loss started. We all think it may have been because she would turn her headphones up too loud, go to loud concerts, and she worked in a factory. It is very difficult to pin point every cause of her hearing loss because there are so many possibilities of why her hearing loss increased. …show more content…
According to the FDA, “A cochlear implant is an implanted electronic hearing device, designed to produce useful hearing sensations to a person with severe to profound nerve deafness by electrically stimulating nerves inside the inner ear.” (Medical Devices-Cochlear Implant ) She doesn’t have any hearing in her right ear. She has a Hearing aid in her left ear because she still has 15% hearing. Once she gets down to 0% she will have another procedure done to insert another Cochlear Implant. The implant has really helped her hearing. With the Cochlear Implant in, she has almost perfect hearing. When she takes all of her devices out she has a little box that sits by