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My 8 y/o daughter wears both HA and CI and she prefers to have her long hair cover them when she goes to her school (mainstream). Sometimes she wears her hair up too, which makes them more visible, so really I think it depends on her mood.

Funny you mentioned that. Her audi said there's a possbility that my daughter can hear sounds from across the room or across the street, 007 ears, as she called it, provided that she programs her CI for that. But she's not going to do it. How is this possible? Does it just overamplify the...

Overthepond: In my daughter's case, she has progressive hearing loss. We noticed signs of her hearing being impaired at age 4, so she already had a concept of what most of the sounds are. After the CI activation, the audi mentioned that she had to basically re-learn the sounds processed by the...

Thanks for sharing, sr171. The issue with my daughter was, too, hearing the high frequency sounds. It's comforting too that, with what you have described, she'll be able to hear things that she couldn't hear with HA, i.e. birds singing, and crickets :lol: Her audi (I'm assuming that's the...

My daughter recently got her Initial Stimulation for her CI. Just like what her audiologist told us, with the CI, she is basically starting from square 1 as far as hearing goes. Before that depended on both hearing aids. During the process, she was basically overwhelmed (she's 8 y/o) and...

Hey mrhealthie. Kumusta ka? Saan ka galing?

Dallas, Texas that is. I'm sure glad I found this site. I have an 8 year old daughter who received her CI several weeks ago and underwent 'initial stimulation' this week. Before that she had been wearing hearing aids since she was 4. She knows a little sign language and has been...