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On children with CIs and how they are educated post implant. It's a pdf file so obviously you will need acrobat to read it.
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/CIEC/conf-presentationsA.ppt
Some excerpts: (hope I'm not breaking copyright!)
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/CIEC/conf-presentationsA.ppt
Some excerpts: (hope I'm not breaking copyright!)
Interviews showed that most parents of children with implants did not jump into the decision to get an implant for their child. Many parents went through a lot of soul searching before deciding to go ahead.
Reasons for getting the implant included:
Safety (GRI: 25%) “… if he could hear a car coming, and he’s riding his bike …we felt that it was just another option for him .. we never planned on him becoming only oral, because he already was using sign language so well. His language was fine....We just wanted to make...his life with other people outside of school and his immediate family a little easier.”
The opportunity to learn spoken language (GRI: 52%)
Having more “options” in the future
Classmate characteristics:
Deaf 32%
Hearing 30%
Both 38%
Current mode of communication:
Speech 51%
Sign 4%
Speech and Sign 43%
Very few parents noted psychological difficulties after implantation.
When difficulties occurred, these were related to being implanted during adolescence when not willing.