I always enjoy showing off my artwork, especially to family. At last week’s family reunion, I had the opportunity to meet my Great-uncle Paul, who was interested in my ASL studies. When he told me about his cochlear implants, I grabbed my phone and opened my ASL Dictionary to show him my illustration of the ASL hand sign for the Cochlear implant. He liked the picture but was even more intrigued by the short biography of the electronic device beside it. Being family, I offered to send him a free copy of my book, but he insisted on buying one.
A Cochlear Implant is a surgically implanted electrical device that stimulates the auditory nerve. The illustration is a cartoon of Australian Professor Graeme Clark, who developed the multi-channel cochlear implant, and the side view is a cartoon of Rod Sanders, the first to wear it. Fingerspell CI or the bent fingers of the V hand sign poke the head behind the ear, the visual of the cochlear implant’s location on the head.
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