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Technological advances - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Earscoops 1st patented, curved earpiece behind the ear
        
        stigma and negative attitudes towards obvious hearing aids, tried to hide them
        
        Hearing aids became electronically and were made to conceal themselves, ex: camera, purse
        
        1952 transistor development, lead to tech that was able to make hearing aids smaller, and eventually lead us to present day being able to customize for every individual
- - - - they provide "representation of environmental sounds" they do not restore
        
        close consideration for deaf people and parents of deaf children looking into implants
        
        Some may need training or rehab to understand sounds and make sense of them
        
        failures, like 2004 moisture caused loud noises, pain, or loss of complete sound,
        
        Cons like meningitis, and surgery risks
- - - - Earlier times neighnors, friends would take personal calls or messages via phone f
        
        sharing news via mail was the most common way of communicating in the deaf community
- - - - 1972 a grant from the captioned films for the deaf, Boston's WGBH captioned around 30 episodes of PBS French chef
        
        open captions were considered annoying and a distraction by hearing people
        
        Decoders gave the option to remove the captions for who ever didn't want it, creating closed caption
        
        1979 NCI is estbalished and within a few years the captioned programs grew from 16 to 60, with the help of more decoders being sold, which would later adda remote control
        
        CART, communication access real-time translation, had stenograph reporters converting words into printed text