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I have a question for CI user. When you got your CI and help you to hear a sound better in English grammar?

If don't have CI and can't hear the sound exactly like English?

Is CI help you to hear better a lot than HA?

Does it make you improve in English very well like hearing people?

I want to know. I am learning. I am exciting to get a CI in future. I want you to tell me about your experience. I am interesting into CI. :)
 
Pinky678 said:
I have a question for CI user. When you got your CI and help you to hear a sound better in English grammar?

If don't have CI and can't hear the sound exactly like English?

Is CI help you to hear better a lot than HA?

Does it make you improve in English very well like hearing people?

I want to know. I am learning. I am exciting to get a CI in future. I want you to tell me about your experience. I am interesting into CI. :)
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Getting a CI won't make your English grammar better. What you need is practice writing. Practice, practice, practice. CI isn't for everyone.
 
How about you?? Can you speak very well since you got CI?


I found your post from other thread. Why do you think

"Young children generally have an easier time of healing/recovering from CI surgery than adults do."
 
Pinky678 said:
How about you?? Can you speak very well since you got CI?
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No, I can't speak very well, but that is only because I didn't have much speech therapy growing up. I can speak a little. But, that's okay with me.

And as for the quote in the other thread, it seems to me like children seem to bounce back faster than adults do from CI surgeries.
 
Pinky678 said:
How about you?? Can you speak very well since you got CI?


I found your post from other thread. Why do you think

"Young children generally have an easier time of healing/recovering from CI surgery than adults do."
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That's a personal question, Pinky. I don't think it's any of your business, really. I also don't think she was picking at you. It's true. Speaking clearly doesn't make your GRAMMAR any better!

I know. I'm hearing and have been speaking clearly since the age of three, and my grammar needs alot of work. Speaking well doesn't necessarily mean a person's grammer is going to be top notch.
 
Oceanbreeze said:
That's a personal question, Pinky. I don't think it's any of your business, really. I also don't think she was picking at you. It's true. Speaking clearly doesn't make your GRAMMAR any better!

I know. I'm hearing and have been speaking clearly since the age of three, and my grammar needs alot of work. Speaking well doesn't necessarily mean a person's grammer is going to be top notch.
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Oceanbreeze is right. I have good grammar skills not because of my CI, but because I worked hard on practicing my grammar skills, reading many books, and studying hard in school while growing up. It takes a LOT of work! And takes many years, too! I knew no English when I was 6 years old. But, with years of hard work, I can write pretty well now!

Just getting a CI won't make your grammar better. It's not magic, Pinky.
 
I just asking that all. I thought you are deaf. I didn't know that you're hearing. Oops my bad!

Oceanbreeze said:
That's a personal question, Pinky. I don't think it's any of your business, really. I also don't think she was picking at you. It's true. Speaking clearly doesn't make your GRAMMAR any better!

I know. I'm hearing and have been speaking clearly since the age of three, and my grammar needs alot of work. Speaking well doesn't necessarily mean a person's grammer is going to be top notch.
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Ok I understand. I want to learn from everyone have CI. Why I can't take CI??

I want to tell you about my third cousin. He is 5 half years old. He has 2 CI. He started to learn speak real quickly. He went to speech therapy to practice speak with sentence. He did good job. I was surprise. I wish I could get ci in first place. It's too late for me.

I just want to hear when I get CI.
 
Pinky678 said:
Ok I understand. I want to learn from everyone have CI. Why I can't take CI??

I want to tell you about my third cousin. He is 5 half years old. He has 2 CI. He started to learn speak real quickly. He went to speech therapy to practice speak with sentence. He did good job. I was surprise. I wish I could get ci in first place. It's too late for me.

I just want to hear when I get CI.
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Be proud to be deaf! ;)
 
authentic said:
Be proud to be deaf! ;)
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This is not addressing any of his questions - please stick to the topic on hand.

I already knew how to speak (was hearing until I was 9) but my friends/family say that I lost my 'deaf accent' after getting my CI, and my pronunciation improved greatly!
 
neecy said:
This is not addressing any of his questions - please stick to the topic on hand.

I already knew how to speak (was hearing until I was 9) but my friends/family say that I lost my 'deaf accent' after getting my CI, and my pronunciation improved greatly!
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Thank you for stick the topic! I asked my husband for question. I said, "Do you think when I get CI and will important to hear a sound?? How about grammar?" He respond me on text.

Pinky's hubby: Yes and no you will have to learn all those sounds. Like you have to learn sound associations. Like you hear sirens you look for it and get out of the way. Or you hear a baby cry any go to comfort the baby. Or the classic one is the ice cream truck. You hear the music then go buy some ice cream. There are a lot of sound associations. Words will come. Like someone yells look out then you duck or get out of the way. Or someone says shush then you have to quiet down.
 
Pinky678 said:
Thank you for stick the topic! I asked my husband for question. I said, "Do you think when I get CI and will important to hear a sound?? How about grammar?" He respond me on text.

Pinky's hubby: Yes and no you will have to learn all those sounds. Like you have to learn sound associations. Like you hear sirens you look for it and get out of the way. Or you hear a baby cry any go to comfort the baby. Or the classic one is the ice cream truck. You hear the music then go buy some ice cream. There are a lot of sound associations. Words will come. Like someone yells look out then you duck or get out of the way. Or someone says shush then you have to quiet down.
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I grew up with a deaf girl who excels in grammer and english and was on honor roll in a public mainstream High School in that area.

She completely deaf but went to mainstream school with me. She cannot even speak but only write and sign and we went thur jr and high school with only a notetaker and didn't get interpeter until our senior year when it finally sort of became a law in our state to provide one. I have not seen her after our 1st year college but last I heard she got a doctorate degree in English and still does not wear any hearing aids or CI or even speak.

Me on the other hand worn hearing aid all my life and can speak ok but still have problem with sssss words or short and long vowels etc sometime. My grammer isn't that all great but still ok and now I am implanted for 5 year and I still speak the same as I did long time ago in high school and my grammer is not any better either as you can see on my post I am writing here.

So therefore from what I seen and what I expereinced myself, hearing does not help your grammer or english. It the moviation or the teacher willing to spend time with the student to learn afterall the hearing childern learn it by doing lots and lots and lots of writing not by hearing it.

However hearing words does seem to help hearing childern learn to spell word more correctly compare to deaf childern from what I seeing but I still do not believe it help with their grammer or english any better. I think it up to the teacher and parents williness to educate deaf childern our language and yes I do know it take more effort and time both on deaf childern than it would on hearing childern which is why there some slackness when it come to deaf education.




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I have a question for CI user. When you got your CI and help you to hear a sound better in English grammar?

No. You will have to work on your English grammar.

If don't have CI and can't hear the sound exactly like English?

I don't know what you mean.

Is CI help you to hear better a lot than HA?

Yes.

Does it make you improve in English very well like hearing people?

No. CI is not a cure for hearing, so it doesn't improve your English like hearing people. You will have to work on your English. Just like there are non-native speakers who have bad English. Do they need a hearing device to help them with their English? I don't mean to be sarcastic, but it's the same idea.

It sounds like you really want to improve your English. I wish I could help you with ways, but I don't know how. I took advantage of that in school.

Maybe in college by just starting out with English courses?

Does anyone have advice?
 
If your main concern is your English skills, you should take some English courses and read more books. Getting a CI won't improve your English. It is both immersing yourself with lots of English-speaking people as well as reading up on specifics/rules of the English language that will improve your English skills. You don't need a CI to help you with English immersion, because you are doing that right here on this forum, on the computer, watching movies/TV with CC, and anything else that you read.
 
LuciaDisturbed said:
Getting a CI won't make your English grammar better. What you need is practice writing. Practice, practice, practice. CI isn't for everyone.
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That was what I thought but since I dont have a CI, I felt it wasnt appropriate for me to post my opinion here but last night, it was exactly what I thought. If one wants to improve their English, read, read, read, and write, write, write. I dont have a CI and my English skills are pretty decent or so I think. :)
 
kimpossible said:
If your main concern is your English skills, you should take some English courses and read more books. Getting a CI won't improve your English. It is both immersing yourself with lots of English-speaking people as well as reading up on specifics/rules of the English language that will improve your English skills. You don't need a CI to help you with English immersion, because you are doing that right here on this forum, on the computer, watching movies/TV with CC, and anything else that you read.
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Also not CI. But the quoted post I think applies to me. I already read a lot before I came here to AllDeaf, but I think in only three and 1/2 months my English skills are getting better just from observing and writing here. I think this will help you too Pinky with English skills before you get CI.
 
I just wonder that all. MY HA isn't help me to hear enough. I have to practice on English Grammar and roots word. Don't make fun of me! I am not proud be deaf because deaf school is stink education! It's very long story. It was not my faulted. I have a bad experience at school. I wasn't impress with stink teachers aren't pay attention for other students during classroom. It's very long story. If I am dwell about past. It made me crying. I hope you guys are treat me well. I am going back to school this fall. I want to be improve with English. I am happy with my hearing husband is support me. He wanted me to learn English more. He don't want people to make fun of my grammar. I am very frustrate. :(
 
In my experience, it sounds very close to the way I used to hear during the time I used an HA, but slightly better with the frequencies associated with speech. It is never a fixed experience, our brains are constantly trying to perceive sounds from the CI, so yes it is improving over time, but the rate is so miniscule, sometimes we don't notice an improvement til it becomes very obvious. It differs with everyone, some may benefit close to what a normal person hears, others unfortunately only can perceive noise or sound. Speech is still a constant uphill challenge, but we need to constantly practice by being exposed to speech, whether from a person or radio/tv/phone and try our best to determine what was said. At some point, it can come through, but it is something that's very time consuming. Hope that helps. :)
 
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