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Originally Posted by Cloggy
Ah, I understand:
You will NEVER show a child a CI, unless it's a "failure" and in the rare occasion the child sees another child with CI talking to someone else, you'll explain how bad it is, that actually, you cannot understand speech with CI, the people the child watches are just pretending...
Yes, I can see how a deaf child would be really glad NOT to have CI.....
Until the child enters the real world and sees for itself that a child that grew up hearing with CI has no problems hearing and speaking with anyone. That in fact, the child with CI was born around the same time... and that it means that the child also had the possibility to "get" CI. But, for some reason - the parents decided that he/she had to grow up deaf.
"Mum... Dad.... ... why did you decide that I had to grow up deaf?" .... "I could have heared AND spoken sign-language with you".... "Is it too late to get CI now?"
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Arent there many adults who got CIs at a later age that have benefitted from them? This is what makes it confusing...if it is too late then why are there many CI users here on this board so happy about it and saying that they can hear better with it than their HAs? My aide got her CI 5 years ago and she said she can hear with it like a powerful HA. Of course I dont know wht she means by that since I dont have a CI but I can only assume that she is hearing better with it despite getting implanted at the age of 30?