Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children

Description

Made to Hear sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear. Examining the consequences of cochlear implant technology for professionals and parents of deaf children, Laura Mauldin shows how certain neuroscientific claims about neuroplasticity, deafness, and language are deployed to encourage compliance with medical technology.

Laura Mauldin is assistant professor of human development / family studies and women's gender and sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut.

"A superb account of how a controversial technology becomes normalized patient by patient. While following families from newborn screening to post-Cochlear implant, Laura Mauldin shows that little of the political turmoil related to this medical technology is salient for the parents faced with a child with hearing loss."-Stefan Timmermans, University of California, Los Angeles "Dr Mauldin is a talented writer who offers keen insight in several areas where practitioners can improve."-Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education