vLog on "The Greatest Irony"

I was watching Amy Cohen Efron's vlog and I was truly impressed with her vlog. I couldn't agree more. I would like to emphasize the parents of deaf babies, to do your own research before making decision for the future of your deaf babies.

DO NOT RELY on the advice of the doctors and audiologists only, please do take a heed to the advice of Deaf people as well! There are many good resources on DeafRead.com on various topics relating to ASL, Deaf culture, and assistive technologies.

Before you can make research adventure, it is a good start with this "The Greatest Irony" vlog and it is voice-interpreted.

Go and visit her website at Deaf World as Eye See It.

And also a parental response to The Greatest Irony, click here.

Brain implanted electrodes has brought consciousness back

Sometimes, technology does some wonders. For this man, he has been in "minimally conscious state" which is very close to coma or vegetative state. He has been in that condition for 6 years, feeding on a tube into his belly.

After the brain implant electrodes were implanted into his head and researchers turned on and off the electrodes over six months and reported that it became effective for this man. He is able to chew and swallow instead of using feeding tube.

It looks very risky by looking at that picture, electrodes going real deep into the brain. But with man in "almost" vegetative state, it surely worth to do that kind of research work! If you disagree with that research process, is it worth for man to stay in "almost" vegetative state for the rest of his life? What if Terri Schiavo had that implanted, would she be successful? Her parents believed that she was not in vegatative state, but her husband did.

BTW, interesting story! CLICK FOR FULL STORY

Cochlear Implants do work???

As I am a failed implantee. I wanted to express my concerns on how the hospitals and cochlear companies release success rates in their statistics. Actually, they never wanted to show their FULL statistics and only expose statistics BASED on most successes.

I have asked an audiologist at Johns Hopkins about the statistics on successes and failures for the patients who were pre-linguals and post-linguals so I can look at real hard data. She responded that there is no such data to release and cases do vary greatly on individual basis.

I do not believe in her claims. I really do think that cochlear companies should disclose all statistic data to the public. Or have an independent statisticans to survey on all implantees about their satisfication with the implants. I believe somewhere about 1 to 5% of deaf prelinguals were successful implantees as compared with postlingual adults with higher rate.

As well as AgBAD, the most heated talk in the DeafRead-sphere. I believe likewise that AgBAD are trying to suppress ASL and advocate oralism. There should be some kind of statistics on the success rates between ASL and oralism. I do believe that ASL do fare well and is more successful than oralism.

I do think likewise cochlear companies and AgBAD prefer to suppress the real data and continue their own propaganda.

It is all about MONEY and POWER after all, folks.