Are you Deaf/HOH/etc?

What is your hearing status?

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i have heard the term "perilingual" for kids deafened between age 1 and 3.
 
Yeah, perilingual is a new term coined by the implant industry. Go figure why some are hearing it.:laugh2:
 
I gonna take a deep breath here and respond that......I'm no longer sure.....
 
AlleyCat said:
My guess is that I would call that post-lingually. If you are deaf before you learn language, then that's prelingual. If you were already speaking because you could hear and know speech, then that seems like post-lingual ... Just my 2 cents?
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Close. Age 3-3.5 is the cut off for prelingual because a child is in the middle of the most important phases of language acquisition during birth-3.
 
AlleyCat said:
I don't know what the medical term is for determining pre- and post- lingual deafness. I was always under the impression that if you hadn't learned speech or language yet and were already deaf, that'd be pre-lingual. Going deaf after learning language would be post-. I'm not so sure it has to be with age, it depends on rate of speed. Again, my 2 cents. :)
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Makes sense, but the cut offs are age related because they are based on typical developmental schedules.
 
My parent found out I was hoh at 4 1/2. She thinks I was 3 lost my hearing. So, that means I'm prelingually hearing loss.
 
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Interesting so many deaf from birth who were older when it was discovered. I was 18 months when my brother have temper tantrum, throw toaster oven through kitchen window. Everyone scream, jump...except me.
 
sunny_signs said:
Interesting so many deaf from birth who were older when it was discovered. I was 18 months when my brother have temper tantrum, throw toaster oven through kitchen window. Everyone scream, jump...except me.
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The average age for diagnosis just a few years ago was 2 1/2 for kids that were prelingually deaf or congenitally deaf.

BTW...I checked "other" in the poll.:lol: I didn't think it needed an explanation.:giggle:
 
jillio said:
The average age for diagnosis just a few years ago was 2 1/2 for kids that were prelingually deaf or congenitally deaf.

BTW...I checked "other" in the poll.:lol: I didn't think it needed an explanation.:giggle:
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I don't know what age I was. I only know my mother left me at the hospital when I was born because I was 'broken'. She's not around anymore to ask questions. My auntie and uncle, who took me from the hospital, are the only ones to fill in some blanks for my first year.
 
I was born Deaf. My parents didn't know for sure until I was about 3 years old. Mum says she thinks I might be deaf when she using vacuum cleaner and I never woke up or reacted. Then she try other home test and I seem can hear and other times I seem can't hear. Bit similar what parents did home test in book called 'Deaf Like Me'. Much much later she realised parts I seem to hear was of vibrations or reflections, etc, nothing do with sounds.
 
rebeccalj said:
I don't know what age I was. I only know my mother left me at the hospital when I was born because I was 'broken'. She's not around anymore to ask questions. My auntie and uncle, who took me from the hospital, are the only ones to fill in some blanks for my first year.
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Wow! That was a rough start, no doubt!:hug:
 
I was 15 months when diagnosed. But Mom and Dad maintain they knew as early as 3 months. They just couldn't get a pediatrician to take them seriously. They got the "STOP comparing me to my older sister (who is hearing)" drivel. Of course, this was 40 years ago.
 
AlleyCat said:
I was 15 months when diagnosed. But Mom and Dad maintain they knew as early as 3 months. They just couldn't get a pediatrician to take them seriously. They got the "STOP comparing me to my older sister (who is hearing)" drivel. Of course, this was 40 years ago.
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It is still a pretty common story. I think most parents suspect long before the pediatrician stops blaming the concerns on over protective parenting and starts paying attention.
 
So Deaf that I brought two Convo shirts to Dallas and wore both of them in the big deaf crowds.

Today I was wearing the Proud shirt chatting with the VP of Sales from Purple on the same plane :cool2:
 
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