Recent content by caffy

Uhh, after posting my previous message, i realised some sentences were missing, so here is my full message: I thought I'd step in and tell you guys a little bit about myself. I was born profoundly Deaf, and diagnosed at 5months old, and shortly after that started wearing hearing aids. Then...

I thought I'd step in and tell you guys a little bit about myself. I was born profoundly Deaf, and diagnosed at 5months old, and shortly after that started wearing hearing aids. Then we left our old country and moved to NZ, my parents - from advice from Advisers of Deaf Children - decided to...

Cain Marko said this: so you are saying deaf people dont have that right?? as you call it. I assumed that the above statement was referring to me saying it will be hard to ban cochlear implants, because it is not only Deaf people who use it...etc etc and i thought Cain Marko's reply was...

Okay, so maybe what you have said is true...after all I don't know what it is like in America, but I do know that here in Down Under, things are different. I know of a group of parents here lobbying for more resources for parents with newborn deaf babies here. Lobbying for neo-natal...

Well, deaf people might have the right to ban CIs for Deaf people, but what abt hearing ppl who want it?

It will definitely be impossible to ban CI's... This argument is gonna go on for years and years with no end in sight. You should remember that it is not ONLY Deaf people who get CI's. Remember about the people who are born hearing and then gradually lose their hearing as they get older...

lol cheers for that mate

I believe that it is up to the individual to choose whether they want a CI or not. It works for some people, and doesn't work for others. I don't like the ideas of babies being implanted at an early age, and being told they are hearing as they get older. I also don't like them being denied...