The Sound World
The Sound World in an Australian charity organisation with the goal of providing cochlear implants and follow up speech/hearing rehabilitation to deaf children world wide.
Origin
- The Sound World was started by Rosa Alpert, owner of Cara&Co after hearing a story in 2007 about one child's struggle to get cochlear implant surgery.
- The program was initially limited to Russia (the native country of the program founder), but was later extended as a global charity.
- The organisation was officially launched February 4, 2010 in Sydney.
Cochlear Implants
- About 3 in 1000 children are born with permanent hearing loss.[1]
- Cochlear implants do not cure deafness, and not all causes of deafness can be circumvented by cochlear implants.
- The Deaf community are generally opposed to this surgery, and prefer a bimodal-bilingual education instead.
- Cochlear implants can't be worn in MRI scanners, if the need arises for an implanted person to be scanned, a portion of the implant must be surgically removed.
Spokespersons
- January 2012 - Akira Isogawa, famous Australian designer, became official Ambassador of The Sound World Australia in international scale.
References
External links
- The Sound World website
- Video - Russian Celebrities supporting The Sound World Charity
- Cochlear Official Site
- PCDE (Parent Council for Deaf Education)
- "Positively remarkable" about Rosa Alpert, founder of The Sound World Australia
- Kommersant Weekend about the project designed to support The Sound World cause
- More about Cochlear implant surgery.
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