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My daughter is soon to be 3, and received bilateral Advanced Bionics CIs at 12 months old. We had your same worries about being pushed towards implants by the medical community but that wasnt the case at all. Our hospital started us out at their hearing aid center and audiologists but after...

Last week during a thunderstorm I wondered the same thing. I saw a distant but strong lightning strike out the window and it caused my unplugged toaster oven to light up on the counter. I observed this several times during the storm, and wondered if it might be why my implanted daughter is as...

Comparing internal failure rates is a good thing to do, but make sure you're comparing apples to apples. Cochlear considers an implant to have failed only if they can find the problem after it has been removed. AB considers an implant to have failed if it has been removed. I had a group of...

Our daughter wears AB harmony processors (completely off the ear using the kinderclip) and has had a very good experience with them. She will be three in October and will have used them for two years in November. Technologically, AB offers features that other manufacturers do not in terms of...

I'll second Phil's comments. My daughter is very hard on her processors but they keep on working. They've been banged on concrete as hard as she could swing them, thrown across rooms, and held in her mouth, but they keep working. She did manage to break a headpiece wire, but it was...

Corn fed. Nuff said.

Happy New Year to you too! My daughter's loss was greater than 60 in both ears and she still babbled. She would reproduce ahhh and goo on cue, maybe by reading lips? One of my fears was that we would implant her and she would stop making those noises. But after the surgery, before...

How true! My wife and I are far from fluent, but we use sign every day at work, around the farm, etc. It is so cool to see our daughter doing it too. I just wish we had a better way of learning, and more people to "talk" to.

Yes, good points. It was sponsored by the Bionic Ear Association, which is owned by one of the cochlear implant companies. Just as the HLAA meeting attendees are likely to be self selected because of the issues you describe, the BEA attendees are likely a self selected group who are satisfied...

I recently went to a conference where about 40 CI users and some spouses ate dinner in a crowded room with horrible acoustics. I was shocked to be able to sit at a table with three CI wearing adults and to have a productive conversation- when I could hardly hear myself think. I think I've also...

It sounds like you have almost as much information as we had (if not as much) when we made our decision. We didn't notice any response with the aids, and part of her last set of tests was while wearing the aids. I'm still struggling with what it was called, ASSR... behavioral... I can't...

Oops, I meant ASSR by behavioral. Those aren't the same things at all. To me, the ASSR looked like a behavioral test because she was awake and given visual stimuli as a distraction. They were able to detect a more severe hearing loss with the ASSR, which I call deeper. Sorry, I don't mean to...

Our state requires an OAE test at birth, which our daughter failed. We followed up at 3 months with an ABR, which suggested a profound hearing loss. Another ABR at 6 months was exactly the same, and a behavioral test at 9 months showed a deeper hearing loss. We aided her at 4 months, after...

I see elsewhere on here that you're tracking towards CI. Just to provide a little forward thinking, if you end up with an implant or two... there are CI processors available that do not touch or hang on the ears. We received four of the behind-the-ear processors for our infant daughter...

We were in your shoes a year ago. There is (at least) a two fold reason for the hearing aids in the months leading up to surgery. First, if the hearing tests were inconclusive or contradictory, there is a chance that you'll notice a good response from the hearing aids. If this is the...

Given an adolescent child and a communicated and concious decision then you might be able to chalk this up for a kid raging against the machine. Seriously though, give the kid's parents some praise for at least giving him some sign, giving him a tool like a CI, and allowing him to interact with...

And if you would have taken off your shoes, he would have followed suit, and the dad would have had one heck of a time keeping his footwear on. I think there is way too much meaning being assigned here to the mimic-ry of a 3 year old with a short attention span. It is very likely that at...

This is an old thread, and I can't remember the exact timeline, but there was a period of time when the vaccine was not available. What a thing for a parent to ponder, whether to implant early to give significant performance advantage with the implant, or to wait on the vaccine. I can't recall...

While it's not exactly in time for pool season this year, Congratulations to Advanced Bionics on approval of the waterproof Neptune for distribution in the United States!! I believe the announcement came on 12/1, even ahead of approval in Europe, I believe!

I love Kauai! My wife and I have been there twice since 2006 and plan on going back in 2012. We stay in the Poipu area, but the second time we were there it had changed so much with development. The first time we rented a house on Molokai for a week before we flew to Kauai. The second time...