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My 10 yr old daughter (has a CI) has been taking swimming lessons this year and is now on the swim team. She is great at reading lips so we haven't had a problem (her instructor says she is easier to teach and follows directions better than any of the hearing kids), but I would like to be able...

Just curious, how soon after getting the implant did they stop using it? My daughter has had hers for 9 years...

The receiver is the part of the FM system that attaches to the hearing aid or CI. My daughter has a Harmony BTE, and the receiver she uses looks like a tiny box with a tiny switch, about 1/2" big and it attaches to a special earhook called the iConnect. Then the iConnect just fits in the slot...

Thanks, that will help!

My daughter is going away for a weekend in June to Girl Scout camp (she's a Brownie) and her troop leader asked if she could teach the rest of the girls a simple song in Sign. I can't think of any kid's songs besides Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! Does anyone have any ideas for a simple child's...

If you've had to purchase health insurance from a private insurer, or if you've added work insurance after a lapse of no insurance, did being deaf affect your insurance premium? Did they your deafness as a reason to charge you more? I've always been curious how it would affect my daughter...

We had the reverse happen with my daughter's AB platinum bodyworn processor (7 or so years ago). I discovered that if she walked by an FM radio when it was on, the station would go to static. She'd go away and it would come back on. I reported it to the audi who brushed it off, saying that some...

Replacement parts for a CI could be considered a downside if you don't have insurance, but if you do, most insurances cover CI equipment/replacement parts, while they do NOT cover hearing aid related equipment. We have BCBS, and anything related to audiology is excluded. EXCEPT if it's for a...

That child contracted meningitis several years after receiving a CI, not as a result from surgery, and she hadn't been vaccinated. A child with a CI can get meningitis and it doesn't have to be because they have an implant, just as a child without an implant can get meningitis. You can have...

When we take my daughter to amusement parks, she keeps her CI on for most rides. For 'wet' rides, it gets taken off, in addition to fast rides where your head gets jerked around (like roller coasters) and it might pop off. I also do not let her go on any rides with warnings prohibiting people...

I second the suggestion to check out the yahoo group CICircle. That is a group for parents of CI kids, and this is a question that comes up quite often. You can search the archives and find TONS of info that can help you to decide which implant would be right for your son.

How long has he been implanted? How many times has he been mapped? If he is consistently not wanting to wear it, it may be because he has a bad map and needs a new one. And sorry if this sounds harsh, but he can simply not want it on because he knows you are not going to enforce it if he...

The xray after surgery is to check placement, and that is usually done in the OR. Whether or not the patient stays or not varies by implant center. For my daughter's first CI surgery in 2001, patients stayed over night. When she was reimplanted in 2007, they no longer stayed overnight unless...

My daughter's implant ceased to work after almost 6 years. We don't know why (it was thoroughly tested by the implant manufacturer after it was out and it passed all the tests). The failure occurred at the same time as an antibiotic resistant ear infection, but we don't know how, or if, that...

Are you sure the audi didn't just type a wrong word? It makes much more sense if he said "CI's are generally reserved for people who even with hearing aids can not hear WELL enough". The way he did say it doesn't make sense since the CI does not work the same way as a hearing aid in regards to...

Hmm. I can't figure that one out! The way an implant works is that it bypasses the damaged portion of the ear and stimulates the auditory nerve directly. Without a functioning auditory nerve, there is nothing to stimulate. Is the nerve completely dead, or is there some function? Maybe they...

You need a functioning auditory nerve in order for a CI to work.

Therapy alone isn't enough. When my daughter was young, we did private therapy 2-3 times a week. She loved having someone other than her family paying undivided attention to her for an hour, playing games and being silly. I was able to take what I learned in therapy and apply it at home, and we...

Well, I must have done a good job explaining the importance of deaf peers (in addition to the good speech models I've always pushed for), because after a meeting with the school superintendent, it's been decided that she can stay in her current placement next year because they don't have a...

Yes! In the current placement she gets access to both. I am arguing for her to stay in this placement. This school district gets kids from lots of other school districts that don't have proper services, not just ours, because they've put the effort into making a really good program. The...