Emilie Segura, a Utah woman who was born deaf, makes videos for social media in which she talks about living with cochlear implants.
On social media, and one-on-one with young students, Emilee Segura shows how being deaf ‘is part of who I am.’
Lucy Bentley, 2, who was born deaf and received cochlear implants as an infant, signs to her mother during a session with Emilee Segura, an early intervention specialist for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, in their home in Orem on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.
The controversy, Johnson said, comes from the notion that cochlear implants have been seen as “trying to fix a problem. … Especially for somebody that is being raised in the Deaf community, that is saying that being deaf is a disability and a problem that needs to be fixed, and that is not true.” “You can’t have a child that’s born deaf, uses sign language to communicate, and then they decide they want to get a cochlear implant at age 15. That cochlear implant is not going to work for spoken language, because of the way that the neural plasticity of the brain works,” Johnson said.
“They can’t do … physical activities that they really want to try,” she said. “I feel like, ‘Why can they not enjoy their life at this point? Why can’t they just be themselves and who they are as a deaf individual?’ Deafness is not a disability. It is just a difference.” Emilee Segura, right, who received a cochlear implant after being born deaf and now works as an early intervention specialist for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, plays with Lucy Bentley, 2, also born deaf and who now wears cochlear implants, as her mother Megan Bentley looks on in their home in Orem on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.a national civil-rights organization, reports that “about two to three out of every 1,000 children in the United States are born deaf or hard of hearing.
Lucy Bentley, 2, who was born deaf and received cochlear implants as an infant, signs to her mother during a session with Emilee Segura, an early intervention specialist for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, in their home in Orem on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.Segura first worked as a deaf mentor, meeting with families and teaching them ASL.
The information they got from doctors didn’t help answer a lot of the questions, she noted, but after their pediatrician connected them to the Parent Infant Program, and specifically to Segura, things got easier. “I wanted to have access to both languages. Megan said. “It opened so many doors.” If Lucy someday decides to take off the implants, her mother said, “I would support it, 100%.”
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