look at this...
"Cochlear implantation has become the standard of care, so much so that in developed countries around 80% of deaf children are implanted, and in some places the figure is even higher"
Sign languages. Edited by: Brentari D. 2010, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
no kiddin......
"While many studies of the language and psycho-social development of implanted children conclude that cochlear implants are valuable, other studies of implanted children's language skills in daily communication beyond speech skills within a laboratory setting reveal that an alarmingly large percentage of implanted children are not receiving sufficient benefits and continue to demonstrate weakness in language competence. A closer examination of these studies finds that a significant number of these children do not communicate with ease in a speech-only environment even after years of rehabilitative training"
Gantz BJ, Tyler RS, Woodworth GG, Tye-Murray N, Fyauf-Bertschy H: Results of multichannel cochlear implants in congenital and acquired prelingually deafened children: Five-year follow-up. Am J Otol. 1994, 15 (2): 1-7.
13 more cites for this.
they dont tell the parents this before drill do they?
and....
"Sign language, on the other hand, is accessible to all deaf children, even to the deaf-blind child since there are tactile versions of sign language [
35]. Yet many deaf children are raised in a strictly speaking environment and are not offered sign language until after the age of five or not ever"
Curtiss S: Language as a cognitive system: its independence and selective vulnerability. Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments: 4. Edited by: Otero C. 1994, London: Routledge, 211-255...
monsters!!!!
and
"Frequently, they will urge parents to keep the child away from sign, offering the paradoxical justification that signing will be so "easy" that the child will lose motivation to learn to speak, and that the child can always learn a sign language later precisely because it is so easy "
Wrigley O: The Politics of Deafness: Family Handbook on Adult Hearing Loss. 1997, Washington: Gallaudet University Press
the very ones tasked with drilling a hole in your babies head...damn...
and
"This advice to avoid sign language is comprehensive and extends through both home and school"
Krausneker V: The protection and promotion of sign languages and the rights of their users in Council of Europe member states: Needs analysis. 2008, Strasbourg, FR: Council of Europe, Available online by Googling the title
now they are in your home.....
"Sometimes, families are encouraged or actually required to sign an agreement to this effect"
White T: The Deaf World: Audiologic considerations. 2008,
chilling......
heres more....
"40% to 74% of patients experience post-operative vertigo that can last for years"
87. Steenerson RL, Cronin GW, Gary LB: Vertigo after cochlear implantation. Otology Neurotology. 2001, 22: 842-843. 10.1097/00129492-200111000-00021.
yet the drill turns....
and
"Further, while in the early days of implantation children were not considered candidates unless it was clear that they were receiving very little language input auditorily, today children are implanted even when they recognize up to 30% of sentence material [
92]. Since 30% is a better recognition rate than many children have post implantation, these children actually might be losing ground with respect to speech skills."
92. Tobin H: Rehabilitation Research and Development Service: Practical Hearing Aid Selection and Fitting. 1995, Baltimore: Department of Veterans Affairs
this is madness....
they keep expanding the market, based on snake charms, allowing them to get their paws on more of our children to drill into in the hopes of assimilation......
the numbers are frankly
scary
"No study has yet shown that a congenitally deaf child learns spoken language by means of the implant so that he/she can cope with normal communication outside the "
laboratory"
Priesler G: Cochlear Implants in Deaf Children. Council of europe. Committee on the Rehabilitation and Integration of People with Disabilities. 2001, Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing,
as the drill turns......