The child in this video regained his hearing thanks to a cochlear implant
UPDATE: Click here to see the latests news on AB 2072 (June 12, 2010)
The Assembly Health Committee voted yes on AB 2072, sending the bill to the Assembly floor.
AB 2072 will allow medical professionals to tell parents of newborns that are categorized as deaf that they have options besides sign language, such as cochlear implants.
The Health Committee voted as follows:
Ayes (10)
- Fletcher-AYE
- Conway-AYE
- Caballero-AYE
- Emerson-AYE
- Eng-AYE
- Gaines-AYE
- Hayashi-AYE
- Hernandez-AYE
- Lowenthal-AYE
- Nava-AYE
Nays (4)
- Monning-NO
- Salas-NO
- Smith-NO
- Strickland-NO
Not Voting (5)
- Ammiano-not voting
- Carter-not voting
- DeLeon-not voting
- Jones-not voting
- Perez-not voting
The No votes included the Chair of the Committee, Democrat Bill Monning, and two Republicans, Audra Strickland and Cameron Smyth. Imagine that. Republicans against parental choice in education. Unbelievable.
But the bill passed the Committee and is now headed for the full State Assembly. This is an epic fail for the Chair of the Committee, Monning, and his lame Republican allies – not to mention the crazy sign language cultists who don’t want kids to have a chance to hear or to speak without resorting to sign language.
Mad Max,
Sounds like you have not done your research….how much does it cost the state to provide interpreters for you for a life time? What kind of career do you expect when you are not out in the public, with the public and needing an interpreter? How much independence is this costing you?
ALL options are an investment….
I had a cochlear implant as a child and I “hated” it, I eventually broke it! I am deaf and do not need interpreters all the time, plus it provides jobs. Im not against a cochlear implant, I’m against the bill that makes it mandontory or else you loose custody of your child because you accept that they are deaf! At this point we should tell people who don’t speak english or follow certain religions that they can loose custody of thier children for not letting them meet “the standards of society.” This is not a communist country. Spend your time elsewhere, where people are abusing children physcially and emotionally!
Growing up, my pediatric dentist was deaf. Great member of society!
Bionic,
State? State to provide interpreters for me? for a life? then you have NOT done your research after all lol… i rarely get interpreters provide me from state oh by the way i now remember i never get an interpreters to chat with mommy or any of my families. alot of us has live just fine without CI or your cheap bionic! there nothing wrong with ASL. NOW… I would never shove CI into my baby’s ear like you would… how cruel ppl would do to babies? i rather let my deaf child grow up with asl first and then he/she can decide when they are old enough to get CI or not. again ASL IS CHAMP!!! Do your research OK?
“not to mention the crazy sign language cultists who don’t want kids to have a chance to hear or to speak without resorting to sign language” — Whoaa, a bit harsh there. Most definitely not. I have known many deaf people who do not think like that, at all. Do you know any of these… “crazy sign language cultists”? If not, do not assume things like that. AT ALL. Very rude and unneeded.
I’m partly hearing impaired and I am glad that I have learned sign language and that my parents did not forced me to get a cochlear implants. It’s a quick easy (and much more cheap) way of communicating to a deaf baby and it had done wonders for certain people that I have met. Plus, the CI (cochlear implants) does not always help. It varies on the individual. It works for some, it doesnt work for some. When it doesn’t work, it’s just a waste of money. It costs over thousands of dollars and not all can afford.
I do agree with the whole doctors informing parents with deaf children options like the CI but there are downsides to this bill. They do not say “and ASL” They just mainly focus on the CI only.
More info: http://www.opposeab2072.com/
Thank you for taking the time to read this. 🙂
buthchers! he will resent you for it in the next few years and will remove them when he is in his teens. Was it worth it to you to experiment on one more Deaf child?
I have several friends who have CI and they werent successful at all. Those Ci are malfunctions. They wants money!