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Alas, this is all too normal, as my 4 1/2 year old with normal hearing who has a fifteen hear old sister with moderate-severe loss is exactly the same. Our audiologist says that it is the product of being in a "language rich environment", which I think is just a nice phrase for having parents...

Children under 18 months and those who are older but have some type of communication disorder are generally tested using a test called a sedated ABR (Auditory Brainstem Response) or ASSR. Clicks are presented and the brain's response to the clicks are recorded. Children over 18 months but...

Thanks Boult. Dunno why the dog didn't eat anything else. Of course, a four year old's head is going to be relatively close to a large dogs mouth, maybe other stuff with equally offensive radio frequency emissions was harder to reach? I don't think I want to test this theory using my...

I'm kind of embarassed, this is the kind of stuff that I don't know. I know a LOT of implanted people (on the order of literally hundreds), but I'm not an audiologist or a medical provider, I'm a lawyer. Though my daughter and I are both HI, we both wear hearing aids. Neither of us is in...

Got a call today from a family that I did an cochlear implant appeal for a few months ago. They said a few days after their son was re-mapped to the highest stimulation levels possible (required because he has pretty severe cochlear ossification) that the dog was acting strangely around the...

Not from the perspective for obtaining insurance coverage for the implant, for several reasons: 1) Several insurers (United Healthcare being the largest) have overall corporate policies specifically excluding CIs for pre-lingually deafened adults. Once the child turns 18 and can legally make...

Ask your surgeon if they use a facial nerve mointor when doing CIs. Most ENTs do. They significantly reduce the chance of facial nerve damage, as an alarm goes off any time the facial nerve receives any type of stimulation. If it is hard to get in touch with your surgeon, ask your surgery...

The hair cells not communicating with the auditory nerve sounds like auditory neuropathy, at least based on the definition of Auditory Neuropathy at Wikipedia Auditory neuropathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Individuals with Auditory Neuropathy definitely have very different sets of...

A few of my favorite books involving CIs or HI in general: Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World, by Michael Chorost (ISBN-13: 978-0618717606) Lend Me an Ear: The Temperament, Selection and Training of the Hearing Ear Dog by Martha Hoffman (ISBN-13: 978-0944875568) There was a...

Just to clarify, of the $60,000 associated with the cost of cochlear implant surgery, less than 5 % of that goes to the surgeon. The vast majority of the amount paid for cochlear implantation goes to the the facility for use of the operating room, supplies, device, and anasthesiologist...

Sweden has it right in multiple dimensions. If the parents decide they want a CI, at Karolinska, the child automatically gets a simultaneous bilateral (no fighting with insurance companies) and they do them as young as seven months of age. Quoting from the October 2006 issue of the Euro-CIU...

While I respect your right to your opinion, I completely disagree with several aspects of this statement. I am in the unique situation that my hearing impairment developed long after my child's did. We both have congenital sources to our impairment, but her impairment started at birth and mine...

I drive a 2004 Prius and frequently transport children and adults with CIs, hearing aids, and BAHAs. No one has ever made a single complaint to me about interference. That being said, my 16 year old daughter says the security system at one particular Borders store drives her nuts when she...

It's not on pubmed either. Sheri

Unfortunately, a lot of the links on the ListenUp site are dead. I really should offer to Kay to update this page.

What about directional microphones? With newer digital HAs, if there is a lot of background noise, the programs can be set to automatically cut off the mikes picking up all the noise that is behind you, which might make it seem like they have suddenly stopped working. One of my HAs has a...

88 % of private insurers include some kind of coverage for cochlear implants. Medicare covers CIs, Medicaid coverage differs on a state-by-state basis -- all states cover them if you are under 21, but not all cover adults. If you are looking for an individual plan that provides CI coverage...

I agree with you, and in fact, included those in my discussion -- I clearly addressed surgeon's mistake under #3, which I categorized as an equpiment failure, caused by the person doing the surgery. I believe cochlear ossification/malformation comes under a combination of #1 and #2 -- the...

It is one of the specific Waardenburg subtypes -- Type II. But I think even within THAT group, there is extreme variability.

This entire thread started because of someone posting: Drew's Dad made an extremely valid point because I also agree that it seems that when you hear about a CI "not working" you rarely hear about WHY it isn't working, and the impression that is left is that something is wrong with the CI...