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DD: not all oral deaf bemoan their deafness. It's not mutually exclusive with the spectrum view of disability.

Less reliance on interpreters is not the same as never needing one, though I agree that it's a bit of a bogus reason. I would point out, however, that OI can often give you a much more direct message than ASL, depending on how well you lip read and how good the interpreter is.

What Interpretrator describes has been my experience with oral interpreting; although I think there are some people who just do oral, I've never had OI that wasn't done by an ASL interpreter. (Which is actually how I first learned to sign ...) But I'm not sure that's what you asked about -...

Rosetta Stone won't be useful if she can't hear it - they don't show videos that would be useful for a lip reader.

Having had this kind of surgery twice as a relatively young child, I can only say that I am very glad it was not my choice at the time - I was very resistant to the idea of surgery. Which brings me to my second point - those of you who are saying that a CI is different because it's surgery...

Just like it's harder to learn ASL once that window of opportunity passes, it's harder to learn spoken English (and how to interpret sound in general) after a certain age. The brain simply loses a lot of its plasticity as we age.

I call shenanigans. One, you don't wear the processor in the shower/bath, and the internal piece is not internally powered. Two, the processor doesn't have the amperage necessary to hurt you, *even* if you placed a terminal directly in the blood stream where it would have the most effect...

Not all mothers are able to breastfeed. (Before someone brings up the "they did it for thousands of years" argument, I should point out that the infant mortality rate is way lower than it used to be, in some cases because we have alternatives to breastfeeding.) That said, being on a...

Capmeister: indeed. I would go so far as to say that the claim that deafness isn't a disability is closely tied to ableism within the Deaf community, and is potentially harmful to the disability rights community (largely because it ignores the possibility that people who self-identify as...

Identifying with more than one group is not necessarily indicative of a lack of identity formation. Identity formation is important to one's sense of self; but not identifying strongly with a specific group doesn't mean you lack an identity.

Not a hearing aid, actually, but a boot that plugs into the bottom of the hearing aid like an FM system's receiver or a DAI cable.

To be fair, most of the research into ASL comes out of Gallaudet - which, you may note, is hugely involved in promoting the use of ASL. That alone doesn't make the research illegitimate; these topics are niche (and polarized) enough that any research done will be funded by people who have an...

Is IP relay also limited by this? (Not that it changes my point - there's a lot of variability from opr to opr, and often it's more along the lines of latency than throughput.)

Quite often, I will try to provide that sort of info, and be told by the oper that it's not their job to "handle the call for [me]". True enough, I suppose ... my solution is usually to just copy and paste those numbers in from notepad. As far as the feeling that we type too slow? I can...

Activation date is set! :dance:

Ah yes, the fine American tradition of blaming the victim.

I am physically disabled in addition to being HOH. We, the physically disabled, are often treated as though our mental capacity is in question, and there is often little patience for us. Your last point, re: blame, is more complicated, and it would be quite a lengthy post, but suffice it to...

Since it's a middle ear implant, that means it would be appropriate for conductive losses but not sensorineural ones, right? (Just a bit confused by the original post.)

If you read the post you quoted, I gave you an example of a child (me) who relied entirely on oral language, who 'reverted', as you put it, to a different language rather than explaining in his preferred language. It's quite common among hearing children who are bilingual.

I lived in Germany for a while when I was a little kid, and spoke German at home, because it was what everyone around me was speaking (although I could have used English with my parents, since that was their native language, I didn't). When I didn't know a word in German, I clarified in...