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For me, just curious because i know one or two members here who got CI at age 2 or so.
Naturally, there are many nowadays for babies who were born deaf and receives a cochlear implants. Do they still need a speech therapy? For how long will they no longer need speech therapy?
 
Frisky Feline said:
For me, just curious because i know one or two members here who got CI at age 2 or so.
Naturally, there are many nowadays for babies who were born deaf and receives a cochlear implants. Do they still need a speech therapy? For how long will they no longer need speech therapy?
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Deaf or hearing, anyone that has trouble with speech can/will/should get therapy as soon as they develop a big enough vocabulary. I know a couple who had their 2 year old son in for speech therapy, and he has perfect hearing.

Bottom line is, the earlier, the better. Adults are the most difficult to work with, as they've been speaking a certain way for so long, it takes a lot longer to train them to speak a different way. This is why foreigners that come to the USA have such difficulty adapting to our way of speaking.
 
green427 said:
Deaf or hearing, anyone that has trouble with speech can/will/should get therapy as soon as they develop a big enough vocabulary. I know a couple who had their 2 year old son in for speech therapy, and he has perfect hearing.

Bottom line is, the earlier, the better. Adults are the most difficult to work with, as they've been speaking a certain way for so long, it takes a lot longer to train them to speak a different way. This is why foreigners that come to the USA have such difficulty adapting to our way of speaking.
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This is not what I am asking about what you posted as above.

I am talking about infant who got CI at age 9 months old to 12 months old. When do they start to take a speech therapy and how long will they no longer need a speech therapy? I wasn't talking about adult deaf or hoh or CI people or hearing kids with delayed speech & language or foreigners.
 
I believe most do. It would be part of their auditory rehab as well, learning what the sounds are and making the connections, and learning to speak. They'll probably keep up with speech therapy until it's decided the child no longer needs it, the length will vary from kid to kid.
 
I have no idea how do you make an infant "talk", but surely you would try and make the baby listen to you talking.
You try to make things interesting by trying to make many sounds - not only the regular speech, but making silly sounds as well, just as with any baby/child.

Most babies at this age just babble, my guess is you talk to the Ci baby just as you would talk to any regular hearing baby,
and encourage it to imitate you - -so "mama", "dada" "baba" and so on, I suppose..?

Fuzzy
 
cdmeggers said:
I believe most do. It would be part of their auditory rehab as well, learning what the sounds are and making the connections, and learning to speak. They'll probably keep up with speech therapy until it's decided the child no longer needs it, the length will vary from kid to kid.
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Too bad that we have not gotten the factual information yet. I am curious.
 
All babies don't know how to talk when they are born and don't undy speech either, until a few months old, (some learn at a faster rate, tho') and after repeating the phrase over and over...such as "DaDa/MaMa"......a deaf baby would not speak at all...but soon as they have some coordination control...would try to sign with their little hands....perhaps even move their mouth to mimick the parent...?

I had often "wondered" if a deaf baby made sounds whenever it cried....(and I still don't know for sure).....?...Feeling also that a deaf baby is more "visual" than a hearing baby....

Even a hearing baby has problems pronounceing words/phrases correctly, as they all "baby talk".....
 
there's early intervention programs for the infants/toddlers, and I'm sure they have a lot to do with the therapies and such for them early on, then working them up to actual speech therapy.
 
Frisky Feline said:
For me, just curious because i know one or two members here who got CI at age 2 or so.
Naturally, there are many nowadays for babies who were born deaf and receives a cochlear implants. Do they still need a speech therapy? For how long will they no longer need speech therapy?
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One or two? You're not sure?
Are the parents d/Deaf or hearing?
I recall the mother of the twins in Sound & Fury" (hearing) needed speech therapy because she spoke like her d/Deaf parents...

But according to studies, children implanted that early will follow normal development. Speech therapy as required I would say.
 
Article

Here's an interesting article..
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Language Development in a Hearing and a Deaf Twin With Simultaneous Bilateral Cochlear Implants
Caterina Ruggirello* and Connie Mayer

Abstract
This case study is an examination of the language development of a single pair of fraternal twins—one with a profound, sensorineural hearing loss who received simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants at 1 year of age and the other with normal hearing. The purpose of the study was to compare the twins’ language development over time from 6 months to almost 3 years of age.
Findings suggest that early simultaneous bilateral implantation supports the development of age-appropriate language, thus increasing the potential for overall progress commensurate with hearing age peers.

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"age-appropriate language" would suggest speech therapy like any other hearing child... as required.
 
Cloggy said:
One or two? You're not sure?
Are the parents d/Deaf or hearing?
I recall the mother of the twins in Sound & Fury" (hearing) needed speech therapy because she spoke like her d/Deaf parents...

But according to studies, children implanted that early will follow normal development. Speech therapy as required I would say.
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Twins? Twins parents are hearing. The little Deaf girl who wanted a CI's parents are Deaf. she was about 7 who got a ci. It make sense to have a speech therapy. just clarify this.

No i am not sure if there are one or two. i recall that ci user member who received a Ci at around age 2. I dont know any other about it. I am not going to name the members here because i am not sure. :ugh3: From what I understand that everyone said, the best thing is to have a Ci at the early age which is understandable. so i suppose babies got a ci at 9 months old, correct? if so then they need to attend to the speech therapy right away for them to figure out with their brain that attach to their voice and listen. right?
 
Frisky Feline said:
Twins? Twins parents are hearing. The little Deaf girl who wanted a CI's parents are Deaf. she was about 7 who got a ci. It make sense to have a speech therapy. just clarify this.

No i am not sure if there are one or two. i recall that ci user member who received a Ci at around age 2. I dont know any other about it. I am not going to name the members here because i am not sure. :ugh3: From what I understand that everyone said, the best thing is to have a Ci at the early age which is understandable. so i suppose babies got a ci at 9 months old, correct? if so then they need to attend to the speech therapy right away for them to figure out with their brain that attach to their voice and listen. right?
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No. The brain will do that without therapy.. Just like any other child.
They would have little to no delay in speech, as you can read in the articles.
So, speech therapy might not be needed, at least not because they started hearing late. Perhaps because of other reasons, like hearing children get speech therapy.
 
Frisky Feline said:
Twins? Twins parents are hearing. The little Deaf girl who wanted a CI's parents are Deaf. she was about 7 who got a ci. It make sense to have a speech therapy. just clarify this.
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Yes, the parents of the twins were hearing, but the mother has Deaf parents. She grew up in a Deaf world and in the documentary she explains how she needed speech therapy because she spoke like a deaf person.
So sometimes children that can hear and grow up with deaf people need speed therapy.
 
Cloggy said:
Yes, the parents of the twins were hearing, but the mother has Deaf parents. She grew up in a Deaf world and in the documentary she explains how she needed speech therapy because she spoke like a deaf person.
So sometimes children that can hear and grow up with deaf people need speed therapy.
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Naturally, not all. however,
so are, some of hearing parents of hearing kids need speech therapy.
 
Frisky Feline said:
This is not what I am asking about what you posted as above.

I am talking about infant who got CI at age 9 months old to 12 months old. When do they start to take a speech therapy and how long will they no longer need a speech therapy? I wasn't talking about adult deaf or hoh or CI people or hearing kids with delayed speech & language or foreigners.
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My apologies..... :aw:
 
Cloggy said:
No.. there's no need for the hearing parents to have speech therapy..
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Cloggy that is unless there is some other condition unrelated to hearing such as the one you sited about a gal that had picked up her deaf parents accent.
 
Cloggy said:
No.. there's no need for the hearing parents to have speech therapy..
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I didnt say hearing parents. I said hearing parents of hearing kids do get a speech therapy.

For deaf kids to get speech therapy if deaf parents want them to continue the speech therapy. Sure.
 
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