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The Sound World in an Australian charity organisation with the goal of providing cochlear implants and follow up speech/hearing rehabilitation to deaf children worldwide.
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.
*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.
The Sound World in an Australian charity organisation with the goal of providing cochlear implants and follow up speech/hearing rehabilitation to deaf children worldwide.
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.
*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.
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