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I wouldn't say it took me long to adjust. Everything sounded very natural. However when I talked, my voice sounded to me like it was talking into my own personal microphone. That took about 3 weeks to dissolve. Music was great once my audiologist added a music program, and then raised the treble...

What kind of digital hearing aids do you have? I was an analog user until mid 2013. Wouldn't give em up until humidity and moisture killed it while camping during a high altitude rain/hail storm. So there's nothing wrong with you. But then my only option through my audiologist was the Phonak...

Where does the OP say that he/she is doing "very well" with HA's? Maybe for the years in the past, but may not be the case now. While I agree that the most powerful hearing aids should be given a try on the road to implantation, the OP is noticing some degradation in hearing status. If the...

I love my implant. Voices sound normal to me. When I got my implant, voices generally sounded human from day one. I got some R2D2 only in busy stores, but that is starting to sound more normal now. In more complex situations where someone is talking several feet behind me I'm still learning to...

You do not have to "hear nothing" to the point where there is no sound with a HA to qualify for a CI. They are considered if a person's hearing aid is of "limited use", which by audiological standards means 50% or less of speech understood on top of hearing loss in the appropriate category...

Congratulations on qualifying! That is great news. I would heed the advice of your surgeon if I were you. They usually have reasons for doing things the way they do them, and I think some deference also makes it easier on some level to work with your surgeon towards getting what it is that you...

Special ed classrooms should not be, in practice, a "dumping ground" but in reality that is what they are becoming. In theory, they are places for specialized instruction that are appropriate to the needs of each child, no better and no worse. They should be like that in practice too. Special...

It doesn't matter if they can't hear in order to read silently. How do you think non-oral ASL signing Deaf professors with PhD's at Gallaudet learned how to read English silently and write English fluently? They are competent in those skills and cannot hear the spoken nuances of English. If...

What other people have said about having the choice to remove the processor or leave it on- a CI recipient will always be considered deaf, from an audiological perspective. I did my high school Senior project on Deaf culture, and read "Deaf Like Me". It's very understandable why the Deaf...

I wonder if they will have separate sales for AquaCase only and something like the "AquaCase package", the latter being for people who do not already have an AquaMic and AquaCable. I believe you can use the UHP and UHP cable for the case as well as long as it is being used for something that...

I chose Advanced Bionics myself, having my most recent hearing aid be a Phonak and having been really pleased with Phonak technology when I was doing well with my hearing aid. I am receiving my implant in 2 weeks, but it was an easy decision for me based on using Phonak technology before, the...

When considering whether someone is "behind" you have to be specific about which developmental area you're referring to. I'm not sure how EI makes deaf/hh kids sound like they are mentally disabled. They're not. It's a good bet that a good chunk of deaf/hh kids are initially behind in speech...

Not all are solely ASL users true, some are oral, some use both but I believe that hardcore ASL is still very well and alive on the Gallaudet campus. I had a prior colleague who went there, hearing, now works in EI. Students are still required to take ASL and attain a certain level of fluency...

No deaf ed does not automatically equal kids that are significantly behind but when we are talking about early childhood education or early intervention programs, you are getting a lot of kids, if not all who are referred, who are behind in some areas of development. That is the entire point of...

Also what kind of deaf kids are we referring to. Born deaf, postlingually deaf, etc. Some kids who go deaf or have progressive loss later in childhood or after they have acquired a significant language base may not need deaf-focused programs/school or the typical interventions and accommodations...

I'm not obsessed but I do prefer to use person first language, it is second nature to me because I work with people who have intellectual disabilities.. Sorry, but I've never heard anyone use "mongolot" or however it is spelled. And there is nothing wrong with person first language. It is just...

Deafdyke if you actually took the time to read my post you would have seen that originally, the very first sentence stated the words "low expectations". Why is "all the settings" so important to have in the first sentence if I bothered to mention it anyway? Better I did than not. Can you site...

Read my post fully next time, deafdyke. I stated the following in regard to low expectations: "That is what my instructors spoke often of- the low expectations for deaf children in schools, any school". I believe "any" includes Deaf schools, TC programs, oral schools, mainstream public schools...

For what it's worth.... There's a difference between referring to someone as a "monoglot" vs. someone as "a person who speaks monolingual English", or " is a monolingual ASL signer". I never stated or implied that the only "real" deaf people are monolingual ASL signers.There are no "real"...

Yes everyone does sign at Gally but I never intended this to mean that everyone is culturally Deaf. A great many are, but we still have to remember that the school was and is primarily intended for deaf people. Also "mongolots" is a really offensive term and I am sure that would not be...