Can a person with a cochlear implant apply for a disability certificate?

People with cochlear implants can apply for a disability certificate, and those with severe deafness in both ears can apply for a first-degree hearing disability.

Implanted cochlear implants, indicating that the hearing loss is serious, as long as you provide a cochlear implantation before the hearing curve, and the hospital certificate, and then go to the village or neighborhood committee to open a certificate, and then go to the Disabled Persons' Federation to do the disability card, will be able to do the disability card, pay attention to bring all the information.

Any applicant requesting a Disability Certificate must meet one of the following qualifications and requisites:

1. Visual disability: (both eyes) must be a person who cannot regain his eyesight through various medications, surgeries and other therapies (or a person who has been determined by a medical institution to be incapable of regaining his eyesight through the above therapies);

2. Hearing disability: (both ears) must be a person who not be cured after treatment for more than one year;

3. Speech disability: refers to the speech impairment caused by various reasons, and cannot carry out normal verbal communication, the cause of which must be clearly defined, and those who are not cured after treatment for more than one year;

4. Mental disability: must be the mentally ill person who has continued to suffer from mental illness for more than one year without cure;

5. Intellectual disability: the person whose intelligence is significantly lower than that of the general public and shows adaptive behavior disorder Level, and show adaptive behavioral disorders;

6, physical disability: refers to the human limb mutilation, deformity, paralysis caused by human motor dysfunction. Disability assessment of limb injuries due to illness or due to transportation, work-related injuries, accidents and other accidents must not be recovered after more than one year of functional exercise after the end of the final treatment (except for amputation, paraplegia, and joint fusion surgery, etc., which cannot be restored to functionality);

7. Disability grade of multiple disabilities shall be based on the grading of the most severe disability.

Legal Basis

Article 2 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Persons with Disabilities, persons with disabilities refer to those who, in terms of psychology, physiology, and human body structure, suffer from the loss of a certain tissue or function or its abnormality, and who have lost the ability to engage in a certain activity in a normal way, in whole or in part.

Persons with disabilities include those with visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, speech disabilities, physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities, mental disabilities, multiple disabilities and other disabilities.

Disability standards shall be prescribed by the State Council. Article 18 The local people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall, according to need, set up rehabilitation medicine departments in medical institutions in a planned manner, organize rehabilitation institutions for the disabled, and carry out rehabilitation medical treatment and training, personnel training, technical guidance, scientific research and other work.