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Originally Posted by ~♥~Pinky~♥~
GREAT! I'm so exciting! I am telling you what? My husband's heavily favorite listen the music with IPOD all the times. I wish I would hear the music. I can't hear a sound with hearing aids. I am looking forward to get CI.  |
Can I ask you a few questions about your hearing past? I don't want to be negative, but I also think that you should have appropriate expectations for your CI.
Were you born profoundly deaf, or was your loss progressive or late onset?
Have you worn hearing aids for a long time?
Do you get much gain from the aids?
Are you able to use spoken language? Do you lipread well and use speech yourself?
Have you used spoken language in the past?
The reasons I ask those questions is because, the adults who do very well with CI's are the ones who have had hearing in the past or who have been very "oral". They are typically good hearing aid users, who lipread and speak. Aduts who have never used speech or listening with hearing aids don't generally like their CI's. They receive only noise and usually end up taking them off. While that is not always the case, it is often true. But there are exceptions, people who never used hearing aids, but work super hard and learn to use their CI's for enviromental sounds, and as an aid with lipreading. But, honestly, those people never are able to use a telephone and generally don't care for music.
Again, I don't mean to say it is impossible, and each person is different, but these are the realities of adult implantation.