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1. Is it true many children who's parents decided on CIs grow up to resent this? How would the parents then determine if it's in the child's best interests or not? Is there a harm in waiting till the child is older?
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Very few resent the CI itself if they were implanted young, but their frustrations would likely be similar to HOH people, especially with the oral fetish a lot of hearing parents have (hehehe i made a funny)
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2. From reading around, it appears that the CI satisfaction rate is 75%. Ive been told it's 95%. Could it be possible that the satisfaction rate has drastically increased in the last few years?
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It's possible, but I'm a strong believer in chaos theory. I think that the huge discrepancy between different studies could easily be explained to the question having a different, more suggestive phrasing. For example;
Study one: Are you satisfied with your CI?
Person one: No (It is still lacking and desperately needs improvement)
Study two: Are you dissatisfied with your CI?
Person one: No (It did everything I expected it to do)
And then they translate it into a study. We need continuity in these types of studies.
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3. Im reading about implants being some elective surgery/procedure in order to have the "latest and greatest" or to "upgrade" from hearing aids. I feel that criteria for candidacy is getting too lax nowdays.
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I believe that the same services available to CI users should be offered to HA users rather than HA users switching to CI and getting training in lipreading and all that stuff and claiming that it was the CI that made the difference. It irks me that health insurance (excluding tricare in the US) won't pay for hearing aids under all/most circumstances yet if you want a prohibitively costly and complicated procedure that may just do the same or worse than HAs they'll gladly foot the bill.
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4. How can louder not be better? Youd hear alot more faint sounds that you never heard before! Some people have the gain on their HAs down so far they barely even hear their own voice and talk too loud! I have this problem if I don't wear HAs! Take someone with normal hearing and stuff earplugs, he will complain that everything is too quiet. Why should it be any different for HOH people?
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HAs do not help when they are physically painful to listen to. Don't you think that if we could solve all hearing issues with "MOAR VOLUME!!!!!" that we would have done that already?
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5. There's an ongoing debate on how much residual hearing a person can have before getting CI. I remember years ago you had to have none left to qualify for CIs, especially since CI would destroy your residual hearing anyway. Also CI technology was primitive and crude and inferior to HAs if HAs worked for you. CIs were seen as a last restort if no HA gave any aided hearing, your loss would be greater than what an audiometer could go as well.
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You should be judged as being able to achieve significant improvement in speech recognition and environmental awareness using a CI. Decibels don't mean much.
I'm not bothering with 6 and 7, we've beaten those horses way too many times now.