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I was in a small, family run movie theater a couple months ago with my daughter, who wears a Harmony with the Firefly activated, so it flashes green when it detects sound (which is all the time). In the darkened movie theater you could see the light flashing, and the owner creeps up to her and...

There would be no point in stealing a CI BTE because there is no market for resell, regardless of how much they cost. There are still so few people with implants that there would be no one to sell it to. They all have serial numbers. Because the CI is a medical device and governed by the FDA...

We keep four batteries charged in rotation so we always have a backup. I think 2 batteries come with each processor when you first get it, and additional batteries can be purchased separately.

My daughter has Advanced Bionics and wears the Harmony BTE. We've never really had a problem with the processor falling off, so she's never had to wear an earmold. But since she is only a child I always worry that it COULD fall off, which is the reason we use the Kids Clip to secure it to her...

I think that until the child actually bites another child, you don't need to notify the parents. But once the first child is bitten you would need to address it. You probably wouldn't be allowed to name names, it would be more like a form letter "FYI, we have a biter in the class. We are working...

There just aren't that many adults out there who were implanted as young children to be able to report on this. The oldest of the 'implanted as young child' implantees (those implanted before the age of 4) are only college age now. In my experience, it always seems like the ones I hear about...

How old is your headpiece? Advance Bionics warranties the headpieces for 3 years. I don't know whether Cochlear and Med-El have similar warranties, but you can check their websites to find out. We had a cable fray on one of my daughter's headpieces and they Fed Ex'd a new one right away. I...

FYI... Straight from my daughter's $17,053 surgeon's bill for her implant in June, $14,554 was billed for 'surgery' and $2,499 was billed for 'lab pathology'. Of the $17,053 bill that came out of the surgeon's office, our insurance paid $2,219. There's not exactly a ton of money to be had by...

A hearing aid and a CI are pretty comparable in size, though the different power options could make it a little bigger. My daughter has a Harmony. It runs on rechargable batteries. The PowerCel Slim lasts around 14 hours before needing to be recharged, and the PowerCel Plus lasts around 24...

I asked our surgeon about that 5 years ago, and was told there was 'one in the works', yet I've never heard anything about it again. It's very difficult to find a helmet that fits over the CI (we had to carve out the foam to fit, and it still falls off), and it would be great if there was one...

My daughter too. We are learning sign (at school and home), yet she is in a mainstream setting. Doing great to boot!

LOL! Took it out of context! That's what I get for reading, typing, and carrying on conversations with the kids over my shoulder...

Just because a child doesn't attend a deaf school doesn't mean they can't be exposed to 'both worlds'.

I'm assuming that based on the CI kids I know, who are all mainstreamed or in TC classes in public schools. That's just my impression!

This thread started off with a legitimate question, but somehow got turned around into another way that parents are denying CI children their rights. I guess my DAUGHTER shouldn't have a CI because I'm depriving her of playing FOOTBALL! She doesn't even like to get dirty! LOL

"non CI? with about more than half of deaf kids being implanted these days?" Are 50+% of deaf people profoundly deaf and eligible for a CI? I would think that the numbers of mild, moderate, and severe hearing losses make up a bigger percentage of the deaf? I've never heard the actual...

My daughter was implanted in 2001 with Advanced Bionic's CII. The doctor chose the implant because of her malformed cochlea, but AB is the brand we wanted anyway. We chose AB because it seemed like they would be doing the most for software updates in the future. She started with the BWP, and...

I've found that I know more about CIs than most doctors. If a doctor isn't a specialist in a field, he may know some basics about most things, but that's about it. I always have to explain the CI and how it works when we see a new doctor...

If you or your child has been reimplanted (for whatever reasons), I would love to pick your brain! My daughter was recently reimplanted after a soft failure, and while we've been told it can take a year for her to get back to where she was prior to the reimplantation, no one has said what it...

I think it depends on what they use to close it. For my daughter's reimplantation surgery they used the dissolvable stitches and put that glue over the top of the incision area. After 4 days we were able to get it wet, but were told to NOT put any kind of creams on it because it would break it...