Candidacy for CI

Hear Again said:
I no longer remember what thread it was in, but I was referring to your comment about speech being barely audible at 40-50 dB and my response indicating that even though I had moderately-severe hearing loss, I could still understand some speech unaided in a quiet environment -- especially if the speaker was male.
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Ah. I just meant that if in the booth you had 40-60 db be your threshhold (the quietest you can detect sound) you aren't going to be understanding speech. And that is why CI users are MAPed to have their thersholds quieter than that.....does that make sense?
 
faire_jour said:
Ah. I just meant that if in the booth you had 40-60 db be your threshhold (the quietest you can detect sound) you aren't going to be understanding speech. And that is why CI users are MAPed to have their thersholds quieter than that.....does that make sense?
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Yes, it does. :ty: for the clarification. :)
 
I don't have any experience with CI, but I'd understand a lot less of conversations if I couldn't lipread. I can't solely lipread and understand, i.e. watch someone across a room who I can't hear at all and understand them only by lipreading, but in noisy environments I have to look at people's faces constantly, and even then I struggle.

I liked the comment about whiplash- when I'm in a noisy pub/restaurant with a group of friends that is so true!

I don't have any experience with any kind of therapy, but I can see both points of view- it sounds beneficial in the long run to teach someone to understand more without lipreading, but then thats only if it works, for that person. I have had hearing tests where the people would stand facing away/behind me and speak, versus facing me, and the difference in my understanding is frustrating for me. I can 'hear' in that I know they have made a sound, but I have to guess as to which sound it is, from the context. The difference between hearing tests where the tester says a list of words- cat, bat, dog, frog etc and conversation is that you can guess relating to the context. It might sound, if there's background noise, like my mum is saying 'I fed the bat some new food', but as we have two cats it's more likely to be that she is saying cat.
 
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