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I don't even know sign, so tell me how that can do any good if I don't know it. How can it be "better" for anyone who doesn't know sign? Sign is an alternative, but it doesn't provide the opportunities that would otherwise be available with implants. I thank the engineers and my surgeon...

That's the media that you see in headlines. No one here is saying that they deliver perfectly normal hearing. In fact, no one hears "perfectly". There's a middle ground. That middle ground does not equate to what some of these Deaf fanatics or Deaf wannabes that have made it out to be on this...

Did you even wear your CI? Because if you didn't wear your CI and if you didn't do any rehab, then there you go. Previous hearing or not, the more you do not use that ear, the less you will benefit from the CI. The audiologists say that things are individualized simply because they cannot...

I didn't feel like that, but then again, I've been using that ear to hear for a long time and the ear that I implanted had continious auditory stimulation. That makes a big difference in how quick one can adapt to the CI. Two weeks is still really early and you will probably need more...

I don't need and I don't use captioning, FM's or lipreading. The only device besides my processor that I use is my bluetooth streamer, and I use that exclusively for streaming music or Netflix late at night when my roommate is sleeping and for when I want to talk on my iPhone hands-free while I...

For all that Phonak has done for people who need to hear, they're behind because of the size of USB you have to use for one of your devices? Seriously? You can get a USB cable that has a mini connector end on Amazon. It's not that difficult, and while the size isn't as commonly used anymore...

I struggle with this one. If I say that I'm deaf, then people assume that I can't hear at all or very little most of the time and must depend on ASL, even though with my speech you couldn't tell the difference between myself and a hearing person if all you were given was auditory information...

deafdyke, you make it sound like CI's are more limiting than what they actually have the potential to do. What limitations are present with CI's mostly depends on someone's individual hearing history. Also, how someone's central auditory system functions in the brain plays a role in how quickly...

Unless you have a CI, you have no business commenting on how people hear or do not hear with it. All I ever heard in noisy environments with hearing aids was noise. If I listened carefully, I might get just a sliver of one person's voice. Contrast that experience with my experience, as...

What is your IDR on UltraZoom? I think it can go lower than 60 if need be, and lowering IDR can help as well if there's too much other noise. I had my audiologist boost my CV to high on my ultra zoom program, and I heard people better but it made all the background noise sound tinny. I found...

I'm still pretty floored at how much detail I'm hearing, and being able to hear the triangle playing above everything else. When the brain adapts, it doesn't just tolerate those "weird" sounds. The quality of the sound shifts from something not quite normal sounding, whatever that is for...

A CI bypasses the damaged hair cells and directly stimulates the auditory nerve. The electrode of my CI does not go all the way in so you don't hear below a certain hertz, but you pretty much hear all the frequencies that are tested on a standard audiogram, from 250 hertz to 8,000 hertz, the...

http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/Degree-of-Hearing-Loss/ These are the degrees of hearing loss according to the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. "Moderate Hearing Loss" falls between 41db and 55db. With a moderate hearing loss, one will start to have a lot of trouble...

Thanks, but I'd rather take my hearing at 20db with my CI rather than get something like this that would only give me moderate HL at best. And my CI doesn't sound unnatural or weird or artificial for that matter. Also if this is gene therapy only, it may or may not give anything meaninful to...

If you have been able to hear & understand language from hearing aids in the past, then you should be able to do that through a CI as well. No one can predict individual speech scores or signal to noise ratios, but generally CI's will be of benefit as long as you have auditory memory of...

I found the Phonak Naida Q to be really awesome, before I got my CI. Before the Naida HA, I had an Oticon PerSonic analog which I loved. I found my hearing to be better with the Phonak Naida Q, though, the "g" sound was so much better. And that HA can do a pretty good job of mimicking analogs...

The tone of your post is completely inconducive to breaking barriers. Your perspective-taking skills are obviously very limited. No one is denying you what your experience of hearing/deafness is. Others have a right to how they have experienced their deafness just as you do yours.

People with normal hearing are used to hearing normally. Their brains have already been wired to accept a certain level of language comprehension, a certain ability to hear in noise, and have a certain sound quality. Any change throws that off, and when that change in hearing ability happens, it...

I wasn't born deaf. I did, however, lose a great deal of hearing at an early age. I had severe-profound loss in one ear that became more profound in my early 30s. My other ear has had no measurable hearing since I was diagnosed. I was very ahead of other kids in my language development before I...

I've never gotten my hearing tested often as an adult. Only when it was either time to get a new hearing aid, when I entered graduate school and needed a specific accommodation, or CI evaluation time (I requested a flashing strobe light for my room, only to find out that those didn't really do...