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Originally Posted by Audiofuzzy
It is important to determine what is causing this language delay first.
Most often than not, it's a combination of different factors.
The time of implanting matters, the amount and quality of work spent of following therapy matters, the parent's dedication to work with their implanted child matters, even the parent's education matters - usually more, better educated parents have better understanding of what is at stake and work harder with their children.
In the case of children who received an implant too late for maximum benefits, it would be good to include ASL sooner than in the case of children who got implanted in just right time for having best benefits, and who are doing good.
Fuzzy
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You say that, "more often than not, it is combination of different factors." Care to explain exactly what you believe those factors to be? SES and parental education are not factos in language delays seen in deaf children. While these do have
some effect on academic achievement in some children, hearing children included, they are not factors in laguage acquisition.
Children do not recieve implants too late to receive maximum benefit. Maximum benefit can be obtained at any point. Adults who are implanted at later age are able to achieve maximum benefit from their CIs, because the intended benefit of CI is to provide sound perception.
Maximum benefit for some early implantees does not include development of oral language, and maximum benefit for some late implatees does include oral language development. Maximum benefit is determined indiviual by individual, there is no generalized standard of maxium benefit. It is a subjective measurement.
Exactly what do you determine "just the right time" to be?
It is advisable to include ASL for any child with significant hearing loss, implanted or not. How do you resond to the recent research indicating that even implanted children test more closely to their hearing peers for language and literacy when they are exposed to both sign and speech?
Ant, BTW, it is "doing well", not "doing good".