After the video of a woman’s response to having her cochlear implant switched on went viral last week, BBC Breakfast News hosted a debate with William Mager (Series Producer of See Hear) and Craig Crowley (CEO of Action Deafness) in which they discussed the issue of how cochlear implants are viewed by the media, against the reality.
At the time, the debates were shown with live subtitles which ran a few seconds behind the action. Which is why it’s great that they’ve now been fully subtitled by See Hear, and can both be watched on the BBC website.
Here’s part one:
(click here to watch this video directly on the BBC website)
And here’s part 2:
(click here to watch this video directly on the BBC’s website)
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Natalya Dell
April 1, 2014
Fab, thanks to See Hear for subtitling that. It was a good watch!
Thank you to William and Craig for such succinct and inclusive answers about the reality of a range of “deaf” (deafhoods 😉 ) experiences; how few people are suitable CI candidates; CIs’ not being a magic cure; the CI choice/journey being deeply personal and while being happy for Joanne, pointing out the number of misrepresentations like “heard for the first time” and over-promotion of only the positive switch-ons etc.
Bernie Howley
April 2, 2014
What has not been flagged up here and which I picked up on as a significant issue, is that Joanne also has a degenerative problem with her vision. It looks lke she has come to the decision to have CIs quite late in her deafness. Signing, being so dependent on vision, would become less of an option for anyone in that position. Also for someone who comes to deafness and vision problems later in life, while not ‘curing’ anything, surely CIs would provide the means of coping. For both those faculties to be affected after a life time of depending on them must be hell especially as our capacity to learn new strategies does decline with age. We are hard-wired to do our most effective learning for life when young.
donaldo of the wasatch
April 3, 2014
Unable to link!
Editor
April 3, 2014
Overseas viewers are blocked, sorry about this
Sho
April 5, 2014
“Content doesn’t seem to be working.” 🙁
donaldo of the wasatch
April 6, 2014
as they said, over seas viewers are blocked