Cochlear implant

[Richard Arnold]

In a message dated 11/27/01 3:14:00 AM Central Standard Time, earik at KU.EDU.TR
writes:


> I am a research assistant in Asli Ozyurek's research group at Koc
> University, Istanbul. We are studying on acquisition of Turkish Sign
> Language, grammatical structure, and the like. As research progress
> we are confronted that many audiologists and speech-pathologists in
> Turkey are offering cochlear implant for deaf children. Their discourse
> is simple: After implant, everything will be OK; a deaf child begin to
> hear normally and speak as we, speakers, speak. It is clear that this
> looks like an advertisement by a company doing implantation. Anyway,
> my question is following: Are there any reliable research concerning
> this issue?
>

You should raise your concerns about this with the United Nations office in
Istanbul (if there is one) This is a serious breach in ethics on the part of
these hawkers.

Richard
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