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I would think there are many more out there who aren't. Since most deaf children are born to hearing parents (who undoubtedly have no signing background) it is not possible for the deaf child to get equal amounts of exposure to both signing and speech right from the get go. It takes time to...

Tomorrow makes 1 week since Abby was re-activated. We weren't expecting it to work (doctors told us auditory nerve failure) so it was a complete shock when she started responding in the audi's office. When we left, she was on a similar program to what she used to use, and the audi enabled the...

Not that this was directed at me, lol, but I don't think there are too many people who get to experience sign and speech in absolutely equal amounts right from the very beginnning to ever be able to have an unbiased comparison. If oral is what you started out with, I think it's natural that...

Thanks for the links everyone!

I guess I didn't write about her placement correctly. Maybe I am calling the program by the wrong name. Around here, Kindergarten is half day. In our district she was in a regular, mainstream Kindergarten and was only pulled out for speech and the TOD. The teacher knew nothing about deaf...

We are absolutely keeping with sign. For all the bad that happened this year, moving her into a TC program was the best thing for her. I actually wish she had started out kindergarten there instead of the mainstream. It sucks that she has to go to school an hour away, but it's worth it. Our...

Anyone or anyone's child have a malformed cochlea and get reimplanted? Did you (or your child) get back to the level you were at with the first one, and how long did it take? My daughter is 7 and was implanted in 2001 with the CII and did well with it. She has a malformed cochlea (less than...

I'm just saying that speech problems aren't exclusive to the deaf, there are plenty of hearing people you can't understand a lot worse!

Frankly, if my child had a HEARING teacher that had distorted speech, I think I'd have a problem with THAT. It just makes it more difficult for ANYONE to understand if they have to try and decipher someone's speech on top of trying to comprehend what is being taught. I had a Calculus...

You gave your child all the tools you could, INCLUDING access to sound through hearing aids. You wanted him to hear something or else you would never have used the aids, right? But what about the children who do not get ANY benefit from hearing aids? This was my daughter's situation. A...

What is a CI, if not an alternative solution to deafness? If you've exposed your child to only sign, but NOT the CI, then you too are guilty of placing your child in a situation where they don't have access to other 'alternative solutions', and of forcing them into the mode of communication...

Wow, based on that article, they left an awful LOT of stuff out of the Dr Phil show! According to the article, the girls ARE in school and getting support, they do get benefit from the implants, and there are no other major disabilities. I certainly didn't get that from the show!

I watched the show. The girls are 6 yrs old now, and all are still in diapers. It really seemed like they had no services, or at least none were mentioned in the show. They had CIs, but no mention was made of them or how they do with them. The Mom said they have a lot of balance issues, and Dr...

I contacted the researcher quoted in the article directly because I wanted to know if this implant would work on a non-functioning auditory nerve (my daughter may have that), but just like a CI, it does NOT. The auditory nerve must be functioning to benefit. It will be at least 5 yrs before...

Is there a sign for E-MAIL, or is it just the sign for mail with an e in front? Sorry if this has been asked a dozen times before; I couldn't find it.

Cloggy, sounds like you've got MY daughter! 7 yrs old, implanted for 5.5 yrs, and I can no longer get a word in edgewise! And you know what? I LOVE it!! Enjoy!

Just curious (not just the quoted poster, but anyone), do you know any parents of CI children who think the CI is a 'magic cure'? I haven't met any, and I was wondering if anyone had actually met one of these people who has come out and said they expected their child to be cured of deafness...

The original post doesn't give much information, so we really have no idea what is going on in this story except for the outcome. Do you really imagine this father was sitting in his Barcalounger rubbing his hands together with glee and just waiting for his adopted boy to arrive so that he could...

Is the schedule completely booked and the earliest date for ANYONE is 3 months out, or is that only for adults and they are holding earlier 'spots' open for children that they won't put an adult into? If you got the first available slot and it is 3 months away, I don't see how that is unfair...

Yes, websites like ASL Pro and ASL Browser? I guess I called it 'browser' because it was in ASL Browser, lol. Sorry for the confusion...