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Even with my hearing aids I miss a significant amount of speech.
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YES! Even with CI kids miss a significent amount of speech. And I mean a lot of times, speech perception can be just so completely different depending on the person who is saying the stuff. There are people out there who are wicked good speakers. People who are dhh can easily "hear" them. Yet another person who is a bad speaker (like they aren't used to talking or interacting with dhh folks) someone who is dhh, would prolly get a very low speech perception score. I've known people, with whom I can "hear" even without looking at them (and I can have a "spoken" conversation without any sound just by speechreading) Then again, I've known a lot more people who could cause even someone with mild loss to qualify for a CI, since understanding their speech is so hard!