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response She only gets slight sound awareness with her HAs. And I have been researching for months, so yes of course I know that all CI's are not successful. She has a friend in school who received a CI over the summer, and still refuses to turn it on, she will were it, but leaves it...

my daughters choice I am going through the CI process with my 9-year old daughter. She has decided she wants one. I really never talked about CI with her, until she told me she wants one. She told me over the summer, that she wants to listen to music. From there we talked about it, and she...

Yes i would love to know. And thank you to everyone who has responded so far. I wanted to also mention that she has watched the surgery on video, start to finish, with all the bloody parts and all. So she knows exactly what will happen during surgery. She also attends a deaf school, so...

She had more hearing when she was born than she does now. She spoke a few words up until around 2 1/2. She wears HA, but does not benifit much from them, she can play "listening games" and tell me how many times I hit the table, but that is about it.

Hello to all. :wave: My daughter is 9 years old and wants a CI. She says she wants to hear music, among other reasons. I have not pushed her on this in any way. We have been through the MRI, and other testing, and she is a candidate. I am still not sure on what to do. I know that it may...