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Such a nice way of getting back to me.. You mean... You cannot see a confident girl born deaf that is listning to cues before she can start presenting at a show. You cannot see that CI is not just a tool? You cannot see that CI is a huge benefit when you want to listen to people? You really...

No.. my life experience is much more than my daughter.. It stretches for quite a few years and my daughter is only a part of that for the last 10 years... And no, I have not had extensive experiments with DHH people. With all your insinuations regarding sexual preferences and strapons, I wonder...

:roll: No you cannot. The absence or loss of a sense cannot be compared with gender and sexual preferences. Because, that would mean that a straight male who is deaf would have different problems communicating that a gay female... From a communication point of view they would have the same...

My experience is with my daughter. Any yes. I see deaf and hard-of-hearing people as hearing impaired. Aren't they? I agree. It's because they are hearing impaired. Most hearing people wouldn't understand sign language so that doesn't surprise me. Online there's not much "voice-on" so that is...

When connected to FM system, Lotte's processor has the option for both scenarios: hearing the teacher and surround sounds or only the teacher..

You really cannot compare the two. Being gay is a way of being. Being deaf can be handled as a way of being, but in the end, not being able to hear is limiting your ability to communicate with many other people. To solve that, you can learn signlanguage and communicate only with people that...

Not at all.. Reactions of parents differ. With us, Lotte didn't hear anything, and doing the ABR finally gave us the official message. But we already knew she couldn't hear. Like you I'm sure, we tested Lotte in many ways. Thing is that some parents want to hear "All is OK." and I'm sure some...

# (1) This is a point in the article of Knoors and Marschark. It's important that the language is provided by a rolemodel. Learning languages without such a rolemodel and without being exposed to it to a high degree can be damaging to the overall result. When we started sign language I never...

AlleyCat, Please grow up.

Yes.. Digital sound straight to your brain. There's a cable that will connect from the player into the CI processor. Give it a try..

How would be a good way to give that news?

Interesting... a 35+ year old CI. So.. He got it as a 5-year old child in 1977 or earlier... Is it only me that has a problem with your imaginary friend that gives you "inside" information? In 1977 CI just started.. and why do I have the feeling they did not implant children? or this.

In case of the power grid breaking down, no more batteries... she will not be able to hear. I just gave you an example, and you're still at 100%. Impressive. That's new for me. Where did I say that.. Assuming again.. You should really stop that.. That would be 4th for her.. I'll sign "Because...

Found an interesting quote.. Doreen Pollack

LOL.. Well done by your son. Brings back memories.. Lotte (my daughter, The girl that DeafDyke knows cannot function without CI..) now has 2 swimming diploma's. We tend to let them swim a lot when we are in Holland. Lotte had swimming-lessons 4 x a week... Took the swimming course without being...

.. now you're starting to get the idea..

Tragic... Source: Ottawa Citizen Adults on the internet stalking children should be punished severely. Children at school is a whole different thing. I hope that this tragedy is used in schools in order to help the 1000s of children that are being bullied right now.

Always good to read how well children are doing with CI. Our kids are not above average.. Most children benefit tremendously from CI. Good to read they have no problem with their identity. Will have to read the article in order to find out how they came to that conclusion. It would indicate...

Lotte doesn't discovers many new sounds, or at least she's hardly surprised when she hears a new sound.. Today she discovered a new one that did surprise her. The sound of bubbles coming from her cola.!! At first she said "what's that.?" when she poured her cola. Then we let her listen with her...

Oh yeh.... Same thing... Why wear an earring when you can have a BTE hanging on your ear.. Have to save this post for future reference...