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As for the number of deaf persons implanted at Sunnybrook/Toronto over the last 18 years-850. Advised at a recent Cochlear Implant patients meeting. They deal with 1/5 of Ontario-I understand. Another note: 60% of all referred persons are rejected for Implants-various physical problems. This excludes babies/children which are handled by Sick Kids/Toronto.
The major difference between a Hearing aid VS Cochlear Implant is an operation- installing the internal processor as well as being deaf or having a profound hearing loss. Implanted Advanced Bionics-Harmony activated Aug/07
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As for the number of deaf persons implanted at Sunnybrook/Toronto over the last 18 years-850. Advised at a recent Cochlear Implant patients meeting. They deal with 1/5 of Ontario-I understand. Another note: 60% of all referred persons are rejected for Implants-various physical problems. This excludes babies/children which are handled by Sick Kids/Toronto.
The major difference between a Hearing aid VS Cochlear Implant is an operation- installing the internal processor as well as being deaf or having a profound hearing loss. Implanted Advanced Bionics-Harmony activated Aug/07
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Only 35!!!!
This is the much ballyhooed "experience" that you have been touting for years. 35!!! That's all. That's it? That's your big "experience' You have got to be kidding us. What a joke. I have had more than 35 people with cochlear implants just in my house alone this year. I always knew you were full of it, just didn't realize how truly out of it you really are. BTW you have really showed your true colors today regarding cochlear implants. ROTFLMAO!!! Rick |
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Taylorjade, Well said! Its funny there is a PSA on the radio these days about a father and his toddler daughter in the supermarket and all the time he is talking to her about various food items while they shop. The voice over extols the virtues of talking to your children and making even everyday experiences a fun learning experience. I guess that is ok to do unless your child has a cochlear implant and then its "hyper intensive speech therapy" as one poster constantly whines. What you are describing is how we interacted with our daughter when she was young. We talked to her about everything and as a result, today as a young adult, she talks to us about everything going on in her life. Keep it up because more than just building language, you are building a bond and the foundation of a great relationship with your child. Rick |
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It's pretty unlikely that he is in that type of environment and is probably basing his decision/wish at least partially on others' opinions. Even if his parents or others didn't talk directly to him, he probably might've overheard/eavesdropped on their conversations and decided that it would be better for him to have two. 5 year olds know what they want short-term, but they don't forsee long-term and the implications of a big decision like that. Honestly, if he wants one and his parents are all for it, I see no problem with getting a second one. I just don't think insurance should pay for it. |
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When people do relate personal experiences regarding their children, they are immediately told that it is not about them and their child, that their child is not representative of other deaf children, and/or their personal experiences are only anecdotal and thus of no value. Rick |
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also if I may interject some input here.. actually I believe children DO know to an extent what they want...I have a 4 year old cousin and he knows what he wants and doesn't want...and i can guarantee you if he had something medical that was needed on more than one side and it was working well for him he'd for darn sure ask for another. I understand that they don't know to an extent what it does and what its for and the implications etc. But when kids are used to something and its working why wouldn't to keep up progress? Especially you're hearing? I saw a video of a 4 year old getting her hearing aids for the first time and only one was put on for the first 10 minutes and during the video she says " i love it other one and pointed to her other ear without the hearing aid" obviously this boy wants to hear out of both ears...now whether the parents said it or not or whether he heard them talking or asked him if he wanted a 2nd implant he probably DOES want another. Just because children are not adults doesn't mean they don't have brain capacity to make decisions that they think they will benefit from or not benefit from. I don't usually like to get into these heated CI debates about children because I have my own opinions on the matter and I don't like to beat a dead horse but I have personal experience dealing with children and development including children with disabilities and ones without disabilities and I have to say MANY of them are or were very aware of what they wanted in that point of time whether it be long term or short term. I understand that there is all this arguing about is it morally right to implant a child blah blah blah...explore other avenues...but if the child is ALREADY implanted and already ENJOYING what they hear everyday why limit the child to just one CI when they could potentially excel with 2? I am all for exhausting other avenues before cochlear implants are visited with babies/toddlers or anyone for that matter. But if something works well why is it SO wrong for the child ( and parents) to further their development? |
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because it's a sad fact that even in kindergarten children see that they are different sometimes from other ppl regardless of what disability they have...so maybe this kid knows that you are spose to have two working ears and he only has one right now...i don't think it's wrong for him to want another one ..my two cents and opinion
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So if a 5 year old deaf child said that she does not want a cochlear implant that would not be a conclusion she could have reached on her own? She too would have been influenced by others? Most likely her parents, right?
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That is b/c there were A LOT of kids who weren't being served well in the mainstream or who did not suceed in the mainstream! Your daughter responded the way an audilogically hoh kid would have, and suceeded with traditional "hoh interventions" That's great for her and you.........but I really think if you had experianced a more typical oral deaf experiance, you would GET what we're saying. Just b//c your daughter did OK, it doesn't mean that another kid would have! You have NO idea how easy you had it! |
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What do you think happened? We just put a cochlear implant on our daughter and suddenly she began to speak? That words and sentences and expressions of thoughts just miraculously began to pour out of her little mouth? What our child was able to accomplish--accomplishments which you and your cohorts have belittled and/or dismissed for years---were and continue to be the result of tremendous effort on the part of many people, myself, her family, her audiologist, her S&L therapists but above all my wife and my daughter. If you think it was so "easy", it just crystallizes how little you know and further how little you understand. You are someone who simply regurgitates whatever she hears or reads from others without the slightest bit of insight and thought given to what she types. Unlike you and your friends, such as the self proclaimed "expert" who knows a whopping 35 people with cochlear implants after nearly a quarter of a century in the deaf community, I have had the privilege and honor of meeting and knowing hundreds of individuals with cochlear implants. Adults, children, people from all walks of life and situations. I have seen the sacrifices and efforts that they and their families have made, and yes I have seen those that have not had the same results as my child has been fortunate to achieve but I have seen many who have. Too many in fact to, as you are want to do, dismiss their results as just being lucky and easy. I thank God each and everyday for the results my daughter has been able to have with her cochlear implant but I also know that those results were not achieved through prayer alone but by hard work and effort. I have also seen over the years that many other children and adults have also been able to take advantage of the benefits a cochlear implant has to offer. Instead of constantly trying to dismiss these people why don't you try for once, to actually listen and attempt to comprehend what they and we are saying. Rick |
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I think the girl want a second one because she is struggling with the first one. Kinda like being on hearing aid. She is hoping having a second one would take care the problem. Someone must told her she will hear better with two and she believe it. Children have done fine with only one. I don't think she would really cared and would be happy just one. |
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Well, my cousin has one deaf ear and hear very well in other ear. She never wore a hearing aid on deaf ear. She is fine so is this child if has one CI on one ear. I do not care if child's parents buy other one for him/her but instead they want state to pay for other one then it costs taxpayer about 80,000.00 for another one. It should be answer No to second CI. Parents should buy their own $$ on their child not us taxpayers thru state funds.
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I think it's comical the way the hearing parents on this board are jumping on those who say they know 35 or fewer CI users. Personally I do not know more than 35. I mean KNOW, as in being acquainted with them, their names, personalities, etc. Seems like the hearing people know more than we deaf do.
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