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When my ASL was weaker than it is now, I had the chance to see a French documentary about Deafness, and understood the FSL almost as well as I understood ASL at the time (which is to say, I got the gist of what was going on, and that was it). It's a fairly well known documentary - In the Land...

Is a cps a cycle per second (cps = Hz)? And does this apply to all implants, or just Cochlear Americas ones?

I ended up going with the Harmony. I've used CART since my second semester of college, and it's been incredibly helpful. Disability Services at my university seemed to think I might stop using it now that I have the implant. I don't know - I'm somewhat skeptical. But I guess we'll see how...

August 8th - cutting it a bit close, since I go back to college in early September, but that's how it worked out. At least I'll have CART as a backup.

I'm a 'he'. I suspect the dizziness is exacerbated by either the codeine I'm taking, or by the fact that I had a tympanoplasty done at the same time - having fluid in my middle ear usually makes me dizzy, so the packing might have the same effect. Either way, I'm too happy that this has...

I would advise against driving, even if you're going to stay in a motel overnight. I just had my surgery on Wednesday (finally, yay!), and although I wasn't too dizzy the first night, I've had some really strong waves of dizziness since then. Not constant, mind you, but unpredictable. If...

Fragmenter: Jillio is hearing. It's her son who is deaf.

You've posted a lot of variations on this theme, but I think there are two flaws in your argument. One is that the benefits involved are greater than you suggest. For example, you keep pointing out that even hearing people have difficulty hearing in noise; while this is true, the threshold...

Yes, the Harmony has receivers available that work with any of Phonak's FM system. I'm told Oticon is working on making their FM systems compatible with the Harmony; don't know if it's compatible with the Freedom or not.

I have access to several IEEE journals through my university (yay for web publishing), so I thought I'd post some more details. The subject was a postie - started losing his hearing at age 23, completely (bilaterally) deaf (and implanted with a CII - unilat, not bilat) at age 34, and the...

I don't know enough about CIs or dogs to be sure, but I'd bet good money it wasn't the RF. Induction fields aren't *that* strong, and you have an induction field surrounding pretty much every electronic device in your house; that's why a hearing aid or CI in t-coil mode buzzes when you're near...

I'm going to geek out here for a moment - my apologies. You're noticing that the word "frequency" is used in both situations, but they're different. Frequency refers to the number of times per second something happens. 1 Hz, or 1 Hertz, is once per second; 2 Hz would be twice a second...

Hi all, just wanted to let you know that my surgery has been canceled (actually, I suppose postponed is more accurate, but it sort of feels like it's been canceled). I've had problems with intubation in the past, so they decided to give me sedatives and do the intubation while I was awake...

Very sexy, but the article needs to be taken with a grain of salt. This kind of design contest has almost nothing to do with feasibility. I'd guess the designer's thought process went: "what if we put a hearing aid in an earring ... it'd have to be a big earring. Hmm. And a fuel cell would...

Not everyone who gets no benefit from HAs would get benefit from a CI. And knowing how to spell "tinnitus" might suggest a familiarity with the topic that would make your position a lot more credible.

Is she resistant to the idea of the CI or is it the surgery she's reacting to?

Because although that's true for you, it's not true for everyone who is autistic.

Autism covers a pretty wide spectrum, and many auties aren't overstimulated just by sound. And as far as judging whether an individual would benefit from sound based on whether or not they interact with you in a way that you expect (as opposed to seeming withdrawn, for instance), well, I think...

One of my CART providers told me that one of the classes she covered started out the year with the professor 'introducing' a blind student's service dog to the class ... and then the CART provider. I'm not sure which annoyed her more, being introduced in the same context as the service dog, or...

There's two issues here. One is language acquisition. I don't know what studies are done, but the anecdotal evidence I've seen all says that if the family cues, the child can learn to cue natively. (Still not without speech/language therapy, but it makes things quite a bit easier by extending...