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I wish you a wonderful journey. And please give yourself time to adapt and learn to use the device. :)

Peer pressure. The need for the mob to control your thoughts will always be there. True friends wouldn't say things like you'r enot deaf enough or whatever. If they want to be proud and deaf that's their choice, I don't get it but then I don't have to live with the hearing loss to that...

I jsut finished reading hte blog. She is a sweety. :) I was just wondering why they are waiting to do intervention until after she has her CI? She should have been or be attending whatever they offer for 'classes' now to. EI doesn't start after the child receives a CI or HA once referred...

Hmm, you have a case manager and she hasn't contacted the local school district to get them to send out a teacher for the deaf/hoh? In my experience my daughter ST who was from the local school (small school around 500 kids K-12) saw my daughter weekly during the school year for speech, she...

You know, I really don't get it when people have this thing about a profoundly deaf baby/child getting 'some' benefit from HA's. Has your life in the mainstream environment been so great because you had benefit from the HA's, because you were able to lip read well enough to make sense of...

Shel just a FYI if you have something electronic like your HA get soaked don't try to turn it back on until you've dryed it out completely. But anyway I believe the reason for not turning it right back on is if it hasn't already fried from the intial dunking the electrical jolt that restarts...

Cloggy that's so sweet. :) You are right she is very comfortable with or without her CI"s. 6am? ACKKK. LOL

Most insurance does not cover HA's but many now cover CI's. You can begin by contacting an inplant center near you. You can find one by going to either Cochlear's website or Advanced BIonics web site. they will list drs and clinics that do inplants. From what I saw when I began looking...

I actually like the new SS2 programming that is now being made available here (finally). I've used those options for about 5 or 6 months now. I'm not sure if any of them were being tested for music appreciation tho, they don't go to in depth about what they're doing at the time. Was this...

sure. Since i believe you mentioned how difficult recognizing the melodies was because of how they were played did you also have problems recognizing the instruments? (timbre I believe they stated) I really like how music sounds through the CI now, I can only wonder at how much better...

and what's wrong with discussing music perception in deaf people with CI's (which is what this particular study is about) without having the topic highjacked by someone who needs to discuss music accomplishments by deaf people without. Feel free to start a thread by showing us studies done...

It's good that you're reseaching before you move. I'd say if you want parental input from that area try the list that Rick mentioned. There may be parents there who can give you their experience in that area. You could also go to yahoo groups and see if there are any groups for FL and deaf...

I work overnight so sleep during the day. I evidently have an advantage over my co workers since they complain about the noise, the dog barking, the lawn mower, the truck going past, the phone ringing etc etc etc....I don't have that problem so sleep right through all that noise. :)

While you provided some incite and Jilio's links are good suggestions there is not a thing wrong with Rick's suggestion to try a few different internet sources to contact parents in the area that this parent is planning on moving to. He didn't state that FL schools were good or bad when it...

Thank you R2, I find it interesting that it looks like from this small sample that a deaf person who has had A/V therapy (been raised more oral?) usually does well with a CI. I suppose it does make some sense. I'll have to go explore this more I think.

I still have residuel hearing in my implanted ear, would it be much use if I sould for some strange reason want to remove the implant? Probably only for environmental sounds. I like how I hear now so I doubt I'd take it out , I would probably implant the other ear if there was a medical...

There are late deafen adults who have to still use some type of accommodation even with a CI. It is an individual thing.

but have any of us post lingals ever expericenced normal hearing? I'm not so sure I ever had excellent speech perception even as a young child. So I have no recollection of ever being able to hear pretty much everything, really one who has a mild/mod hearing loss misses much, just as aiding a...

I've been having a good time living my life to the fullest and one of my daughters just had twins 2 months ago (gee time flies they're already 2 months old eek!!) so I've been enjoying time holding and cuddling the new babies. :) One can not read these comments on CI's and just pop in...

congrats on finally getting the approval for your implant. I hope that all goes well with surgery and the activation.