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I disagree. I've been in the severe range with HA's. (very close to profound toward the end) Frankly I find it hard to understand why one should have to struggle with the limited amount of speech perception given by HA's when a CI is an alternative and gives much better clarity of speech...

from personal experience with the freedom Ci and having had natural hearing (if you can call hearing with HA's natural) the CI is quite natural. The thing about the human brain is it can adapt and turn something like simulated sound from radio waves into what it recalls that sound as sounding...

Ah, post lingual. Ok. Actually my life has improved dramatically since I got the CI. And I only had a severe hearing loss. If you find an abstract regarding a similar study in pre linguals would you share share the link or title please.

I notice not much has changed regarding abstracts concerning CI recipients since I quit reading a month or so ago. Still not much input from those who can read the complete thing and post a quote here and there to support their statements. Some things never change. :) Owen if you've...

as you've written this you are saying that the child's hearing has recovered. From reading the reponses what seems to be happening is the child is responding well to the use of HA's. Which is nice. My daughter adapted quite well to her aides when she got them, she gets the results expected by...

With the limited resources of a national health care system my guess is that the young children are getting their implants before adults. I first consulted my center in Feb. then retested about 6 weeks later got approval through my insurance and was implanted the first week in may. This is in...

Catty I've been through the metal detectors at airports at least a dozen times and have never removed my processor. My audiologist has never said it was necessary. You might want to contact the company and see what they recommend. As for me I'll continue to walk through with it on. :)

I think I rode every roller coaster at Disneyland, California Screamer is one of my favorites. :) I just remove the processor, you will natually try to control your head on something like that so the possiblity of doing damage is pretty low I would think. I refuse to let an implant restict my...

regarding static, my understanding is the mapp that could be wiped would be the one you are using at the time of the zap. I've had my mp3 player connected while doing my job and have gotten zapped and have yet to lose any programs at all. Perhaps the Freedom is more static proof. I did have...

Wonderful. Hope the time passes quickly now. and how are you doing are the voices normalizing now?

To actually learn to use asl I would need more of an immersion learning situation. I've tried the tapes and stuff but you need to use it or lose it with this language (and others i remember pretty much zilch of the hs spanish I took...which I really didn't learnt much in cause I missed to much...

hearing people do not all use the same language. they even speak with different dialects and accents etc. To a friend in Tenn. a COKE is any kind of pop/soda, to me it is a coke. I'm deaf, I'm not you and I'm happy with my way of communicating. It's just as good as yours and my child who...

You know much of the use of adults who aquire hearing loss using asl has alot to do with where they live and if they have access and the time to interact with the signing deaf community. I have nothing against your use of asl, but the option is not the best for myself because 1. I do not live...

One wonders why people think that a parent having their child implanted is expecting a 'perfect' child. I really don't think so since if the implant made the child 'perfect' there would be nothing external to have to bother with. The CI still sits on the ear, body worn processors still need...

I believe she really hasn't gotten good programming yet there is a reason for that and she isn't willing to quit like her audiologist would like and since she doesn't have the money to pay for removal and her insurance might not she is going to continue in the study. I really think that once...

My daughter is in the trial but since it's in the trail stage I believe I really can't say much about how it works. Lets just say it's a work in progress. I think it will be an exciting option if it all comes together as they hope.

I think you just sneeze with your mouth open. if you try to stop the sneeze the whole thing is kinda forced back so much harder on healing ears then just opening the mouth and letting it go. Of course be sure to ask your surgeon/dr. just to make sure. :) good luck.

Your opinion really . I find these articles and blogs to be a good addition to the use with teh CI, just because CS will help a child struggling to aquire english comprehension. since there have been parents who've said that this is the first they've actually heard of CS I think it is very...

Just having better access to sound will help the person with a CI speak better. if one hears ones intonation one can correct it if necessary. Sure a profoundly deaf person can learn to speak well (using HA's or not) but it takes much more effort to ensure that all is correct and if no hearing...

Very well said. :)