SuePatten

Hello,

My name is Sue and I'm a senior undergraduate at ASU. I am training to be a speech and language practitioner. One of my speech and hearing professors required that we talk to anyone who has a child with any sort of disability to get a feel for writing questions for clinical interviews. I chose to center my questions on hearing aids and cochlear implants because I am extremely interested in that area of study. If you are the parent of a child with a hearing aid or cochlear implant, or if you have one of these items yourself, could you please help me by answering these questions?

1. Was there a hearing screening done at the hospital upon birth? If so, what was the result?

2. If the test showed no hearing problem, or if a test was not performed, when was it first noticed that there was a hearing problem?

3. At what age did you or your child receive a hearing aid/cochlear implant?

4. How soon after receiving amplification did you or your child start working with a speech or hearing professional?

5. How long after beginning treatment with the SLP was it until you or your child began using speech sounds or saying words?

6. What were some of the first words?

7. Do you or your child have a problem with the hearing aid or cochlear implant speech processor (or any device that attaches outside the head)?

8. Do you or your child enjoy music, TV, or video games that are dependent upon sound? What is the favorite?

9. Did you or does your child enjoy playing and communicating with other children? Are they children with normal hearing?


Thank you very much for your help!

Deafness

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sallylou

One, surveys like this aren't allowed on AD.

Two, being deaf is not considered a disability by many ADers.

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Bottesini

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Please read these rules.

Your questions are already extensively discussed here.

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Bottesini

I missed the disability part.

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It's a joke Nathan!

sallylou

Got it covered. Forgot the link. That's your job.

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Lissa

My hands are tied

Sorry, AD rules states we cannot help.

DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK, look through properly. Go interview real people face-to face

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sallylou

We are fun if you want to hang around and chat.

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Happy holidays!

Lissa

Are we?

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Bottesini

People are always challenging us on whether we are fun or not.

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It's a joke Nathan!

Lissa

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shel90

Thank you! Usually those who major in clinical fields will see deafness as a disability. I wish those majors had Deaf studies classes incorporated.

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JennyB

We need to remember that some do identify with the medical/disability model. Most of the people who use hearing aids do identify with the medical model. We aren't disabled...but others are.

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shel90

I am referring to hearing people. If a deaf person wants to see him/herself as disabled, not my business but hearing people? If the majority of them would stop seeing us as less capable, maybe more deaf people would have equal rights and opportunities.

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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." -George Santayana

souggy

And most of them are post-lingual, right?

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dogmom

I am musing that the thinking behind all these surveys, etc. - as well as the actual surveys -required by prof's in certain fields, help perpetuate the idea that Deaf people are disabled cuz it seems like the survey by default comes at it from perspective of, seeing the Deaf person as a "specimen", and/or as someone who needs assistance, someone who "overcame" something, someone who received "services" etc. And in this instance, right away we have a bias because one of the questions asks about "normal" hearing.

JennyB

yes - or I know some hearing impaired disability aligned pre-lingual people who have been taught to be disabled by parents. Most of them come over to the "dark side" later on though

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shel90

Oh, how I hate that when I was a child growing up as an oral mainstreamed deaf kid. My teachers would tell me how special I was because of how I was able to overcome my deafness to function normally. WTF?!

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dogmom

what a thing to say to a kid, Shel.....I can see why you'd be pissed!

shel90

Not only that..they would say that to me in front of the class. Not all were like that but too many. It was just pure humiliation.

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dogmom

geez....I understand about humiliation!