Ouch! (disability) - Features, Blogs, Podcast, News, Talk. The decision to speak or to sign is loaded with significance for deaf people, says BBC producer William Mager. He describes how he came to make his own choice. I appeared on BBC Breakfast News last Saturday to discuss a video of a woman whose cochlear implant was switched on for the first time - it was a very emotional clip and quickly went round the world. Joanne Milne herself speaks with a Geordie accent, which is audible in the video. She either had good residual hearing or is deafened, meaning she had enough hearing to pick up colloquial speech patterns. This in turn made the various headlines about Joanne "hearing for the first time" a bit misleading. This is not my cue to contribute 1,000 words to the cochlear implant debate. Find out more See Hear is broadcast on BBC Two at 10:30 BST on Wednesdays - or catch up on BBC iPlayer After the interview aired, my phone went mad with messages - text, Facebook, Twitter, email and more.
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