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Originally Posted by Cloggy
Flip,
But OK, I'll join you for a little longer..... it's good info..
The way you are reading it, the child has to sleep with the CI on. Do you really think this is the intention of the doctor?
It's all relative... isn't it. It's not as ridget as you make it out to be..
If the childs wants to take it off within the hour, I would not allow it. At the end of a day filled with sound, I would.
Now, with a child that signs as well; in order to benefit from CI, it is important that the child learns to listen to speech as much as possible. In the beginning this might be a problem since the child knows to communicate with sign.
When CI is taken off a lot, and sign is used, learning to hear and understand speech is delayed. My guess is that the comment has to be seen in that light.
Does that make sense? |
Sure, that makes some sense, and can be a cause of this episode.
The kid is not sleeping with is as far as I know
I am not going to ask you where you got the idea that signing is going to hurt speech, but I find it strange that this kid is nine years old, and never complained about HA before CI. We see that deaf adults sometimes complains about CI, and stop using them, and everyone understands very well. If the child is old enough to complain, is it really legal to ignore the complains?
Also, I am curious what age a child can deny an CI implant? Someone said the age of 12?
I would not say this is totally offtopic as arguments like "no signing" are brought up with this kind of CI use.