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My son is bi-lateral and plays football (contact).. We consulted with both his audie and the dr. and they both gave us the "heads up". My son has been playing for 2 years and loves it.

You know, it's funny , because Jillio you seem to come off as the end all know all of Deaf culture and community and I take great offense to that. At time your responses are downright arrogant to parents who have implanted their children.While I think, (and you always seem to bash my 2 cents)...

Well Cheri: My Deaf nephews and niece (who ALL HAVE Deaf parents and are immersed in the Deaf community and use ASL as their language) all go to a hearing, mainstreamed school.. not one of them go to a Deaf or oral school... I guess in their case they aren't the "deaf people who know what's...

That's baloney!! Of course, there will always be parents on both extreme sides, but the parents that I know of whose children have CI's , their children also sign. Is it fluent as a native ASL signer? No, but they can hold basic conversaion.... I , am lucky. I have a little microcosim of the...

Well, as the mother of two sets of twins, one obiviously fraternal, and the other identicial, I personally disagree with that statement. That is not based on any empricial data, just personal and I am entitled to my own opinion.

:giggle: Yes, I do see major differences... My son was the first one out of the bunch.. he was also the youngest... For him, his speech is sooooo clear that there is no deaf inflections at all... THe older children, most definitely.. they still sound deaf and rely on sign language in school...

Shel.. this is one point I hate to disagree with you on, but I must. In my personal case, you absolutely can compare a deaf child to a hearing child. You see, my deaf son has a hearing twin brother (fraternal)... My deaf son was implanted at 11 months.. .and then got his second implant at...

Shel: To answer your question, my mom simply never got involved because she has bitter resentment towards hearing people and the hearing community. I was speech delayed... I lived next door to my hearing aunt and uncle and my grandparents lived 10 blocks away... but I still was speech...

I am a CODA......... I am the oldest of 3 children.... I learned how to sign before I learned how to speak..... I was speech delayed and required speech therapy services from 4 years old until I was in 5th grade... I sounded very much like a Deaf person... I still revert back to it when i am...

This argument is soo silly......I am tired of hearling Deaf people say that we are denying our children of "Deaf Culutre"... I am in in very unique situation.. my parents are Deaf, my child is implanted. There are Deaf aunts, uncles, cousins, too...Why did I choose the implant for my child...

The second one is not an exact continuation of the first story... Main characters are not in the 2nd one, just a FYI!

DD: As a CODA, as well as a mother of a deaf child, I really resent your statements...... My child is deaf and is implanted as well...... I did not want to CHANGE him just open up more doors and give him more opportunites... When I found out that my child was deaf, I cried.. and cried for...

Believer: Welcome !!! I must applaud you......... my child is bi-lateral and it was the best decision that we ever made. Our child was implanted at 11 months and then got the second implant at the age of 5. Our surgeon tried to discourage us from the second implant, but by that time, my child...

Very well thought out essay......Who wrote it?

Just putting my 2 cents in........... my child has bi-lateral implants and is doing wonderfully. The surgeron tried to discourage us from proceeding, but we are glad that we did it, and so does my child. Test scores jumped significanly once both ears were on the same "wave length". Glad that...

Yes, I would like to keep that private and hey, if you don't believe me, that's fine too......... I have nothing to lose or gain by posting.

I never even thought of that, but sadly, no I am not one of the twins. I just picked the name cause it implies more than enoough trouble. Great guess, though!:cool: I really don't remember how the subject of bi-lateral came up, I'll have to ask But I do know that Peter gave his father the...

My son is bi-lateral and is doing extremely well... In the first year of the two devices, his tests scores shot up......... Prior to that , he was making gains, but in moderate amounts. Then when he was implanted in the other ear, his test scores went up years, instead of months HTH

The biggest misconception is that the parents of CI children "made' the chocie for him/her....... I totally disagree with this statement......... In fact, it's these parents that are giving their children a CHOICE..... How......Well, my son was implanted at a very early age............If he...