Adult Post-Cochlear Implantation Process |
Exploring Quality Management Strategies to Mitigate Culture Shock among Adult Cochlear Implant Users
Summary: After cochlear implantation and activation, a deaf and hard of hearing cochlear implant (CI) user enters a phase of therapy to perceive and produce a speech. When the adult CI user enters this phase they sometimes suffer from cultural shock when they travel abroad to different countries for the global profession, exchange student, and tourism. The physical, physiological, and psychological aspects are involved and so altering the end-user’s coping capability in an unfamiliar environment once traveled abroad in a different culture and language. When a CI user sojourning to a different country, it is beneficial to implement a culture shock management strategy for support in the continuing process of post cochlear implantation. These management strategies aimed at reintegration and positive impact on the cochlear implant users’ social change. The study is bounded to the United States or a native English-speaking country from where cochlear implant users may travel in the world host countries and encounter culture shock.