Originally Posted by jillio

You know, Raykat, I wish someone had a definitive explanation for that. You can take two individuals with the exact same audiogram....one will be able to develop speech skills readily and one won't. Unfortunately, no one has been able to exactly determine the personal variables that makes this so. That is why it is such a crap shoot in creating an oral only environment for a child. We just don't know until quite a bit of time has passed who will be successful and who won't. And even some who appear to be successful are later found to have suffered some negative consequences. You seem to have been one of the fortunate ones who thrived.