A Quadrant Book

Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
Laura Mauldin


Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Jun 2016 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816697250 | 224pp | 215x139mm | RFB | AUD$37.99, NZD$47.99
Hardback | Feb 2016 | University of Minnesota Press | 224pp | 215x139mm | RFB

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.