Originally Posted by Hear Again

At the very least, prelingually profoundly Deaf people who never wore hearing aids could still benefit from a CI by being able to hear environmental sounds. They may never be able to understand speech or talk on the phone, but to many prelinguals who have CIs, they are more than satisfied with having the ability to hear environmental sounds.

If a postlingually deaf person has the right to get a CI, so does someone who is prelingually Deaf (provided they have realistic expecations).