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Old 12-23-2007, 08:22 AM   #25 (permalink)
Cloggy
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Originally Posted by flip View Post
I don't know this kid very well, but noticed he said he did not want to wear it because the batteries was empty, but they was measured to be ok. ......
It's easy to check if the CI works. Parents have a separate wire with earplug to see if it works. And when not, the audi would quicly find out.
Sounds to me the kid is just not motivated to hear.
But, at 9 years old, I would press to keep trying it..... money normally works


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The no-CI no-speech stuff does not make sense to me. The best speechers are often those raised bilingual from what I have seen, and I know deaf people that are too deaf for HA and CI that can speak and lipread ok.
I was talking about young children, implanted before they learned speech..

You notice how lack of information causes confusion?
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