Documenting the lived experiences of young adult cochlear implant users: ‘feeling’ sound, fluidity and blurring boundaries

Snell, Laura

doi:10.1080/09687599.2015.1014086

Cited by 9 publications

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“…In considering deaf people with cochlear implants, this study supports a call for 'researchers to gather their stories' (Friedner and Kusters, 2020;Mauldin, 2016: 171;Snell, 2015). We examine the significance of the implant in analysing narratives of young adults and consider the notion that 'the body is not an object to be studied in relation to culture but is to be considered as the subject of culture' (Csordas, 1990: 5).…”

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confidence: 67%

Cochlear Implants: Young Adults’ Embodied Experiences of Deafness and Hearing through Implanted Technology

2023

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This article ethnographically considers the experiences of Australian young people who were born deaf and who hear and listen through cochlear implants to explore the intersection between the sensory body, lived experience and technology. The article draws on phenomenology to examine how experiences of deafness are productive in analysing articulations of embodiment and the meanings embedded in a body that is valued as both deaf and hearing. Leaving aside binary conceptions of deaf versus hearing, and understandings of the cochlear implant as a remedy for sensory deficits, we instead make a case for nuanced understandings of the device and embodied experiences through technology. This analysis identifies how a cochlear implanted body navigates connections to the world and to others in turning on and off engagement. We contend that the device has an intrinsic value for recipients through enabling their access to hearing while not removing their experiences of deafness.

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confidence: 67%

Cochlear Implants: Young Adults’ Embodied Experiences of Deafness and Hearing through Implanted Technology

2023

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“…Full-text review confirmed eligibility of 45 studies (eFigure 2 in the Supplement). There was broad geographic representation of studies from predominantly developed countries (Table 1). Across all studies, 1036 participants (age range, 18-84 years) were included.…”

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Health-Related Quality of Life Changes Associated With Hearing Loss

Dixon

Feeny

Tomlinson

et al. 2020

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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IMPORTANCE Utility is a single-value, preference-based measure of health-related quality of life that represents the desirability of a health state relative to being dead or in perfect health. Clinical, funding, and policy decisions rely on measured changes in utility. The benefit of hearing loss treatments may be underestimated because existing utility measures fail to capture important changes in quality of life associated with hearing loss.OBJECTIVE To develop a comprehensive profile of items that describe how quality of life is associated with hearing loss and its treatments that can be used to generate hearing-related quality of life measures, including a novel utility measure.

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“…For D/HH persons whose deafness is evaluated by clinicians as ‘too severe’ to be assisted by HAs, they may be offered CIs. Following the CI surgery is a rehabilitation process which usually includes speech-language therapy (see Snell 2015; Mauldin 2016). Unlike HAs which amplify sounds, CIs replace the ear's own capacity to hear and directly stimulate the auditory nerve.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Assistive devices are usually considered material objects; some studies have focused on the subjective experience of assistive devices (e.g. Christie & Bloustien 2010; Snell 2015), but few have emphasized their semiotic potential.…”

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Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect

2022

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Previous research has proposed that phonetic variation may index affect prior to indexing other social meanings. This study explores whether the affective indexicality of vowels identified in previous studies can also be observed among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, in this case, speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. The results suggest that /i/ backing is invoked to signal negative affect. This study also demonstrates how assistive devices like hearing aids and cochlear implants can be considered semiotic resources. For deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, assistive hearing devices enter into a process of bricolage with linguistic and other symbolic resources, generating new potentials for the embodiment of affect. (Affect, iconicity, Taiwan Mandarin, embodied sociolinguistics, deafness)*

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Documenting the lived experiences of young adult cochlear implant users: ‘feeling’ sound, fluidity and blurring boundaries

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Cochlear Implants: Young Adults’ Embodied Experiences of Deafness and Hearing through Implanted Technology

Cochlear Implants: Young Adults’ Embodied Experiences of Deafness and Hearing through Implanted Technology

Health-Related Quality of Life Changes Associated With Hearing Loss

Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect

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