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in this major at MIT. |
I'm in [INAUDIBLE] |
technology and [? society ?] |
and [INAUDIBLE] is a joint |
major between Humanities |
and [? Chinese. ?] |
PROFESSOR: Are you |
an overachiever? |
SHEILA: I don't know. |
Maybe. |
PROFESSOR: So has |
anybody in the class |
ever spoken to a cochlear |
implant user before? |
SHEILA: I know some of them. |
PROFESSOR: You know |
some of these people? |
SHEILA: We're in the same dorm. |
[INAUDIBLE] in my sorority. |
OK. |
Great! |
So we can do this |
whatever way you want to. |
You can ask Sheila |
questions if you've already |
asked them to her. |
I'll ask her questions. |
Does anybody have any questions? |
Yes? |
AUDIENCE: How old were you |
when you got your implant? |
SHEILA: So I was born |
deaf, but I got implant |
when I was 3 years old. |
Actually, I got surgery |
when I was 2 years old. |
[INAUDIBLE] when |
I was 3 years old. |
PROFESSOR: So one |
question I often |
get about implants into children |
is how young can a child be |
and still be implanted |
successfully. |
So the surgeons at |
Mass Eye and Ear |
say that the cochlea is |
adult size by age 1 and 1/2, |
so typically, that's the age |
when a person who is born deaf |
is implanted these |
days, age 1 and 1/2. |
The idea to implant early |
is so that the subject |
can grow up and enjoy |
normal hearing, especially |
during a critical period for |
language formation, which |
was maybe starting at |
1 and 1/2, 2 years old. |
So if you implant a person |
later, in their teens, |
and they haven't |
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