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Hello Bott. Go Hawks, and an uncharacteristic nod to the Cyclones this weekend! I saw that there were other issues in play, which only strengthens the fact that a few months of CI use might not have held many positive results. Truly in this type of situation results might be more subtle...

The first settings can be so low that they aren't perceived as usable sound. It depends on the map and how the AuD plans on advancing it. CIs are not like a switch that work from the minute they are put on. I hope beba is encouraged to talk with the audiologist about this, and not discouraged...

Welcome! I'm the hearing parent of a 2 year old who has been using bilateral implants for not quite a year. I wouldn't give up on the implant just yet. If he was implanted in July, that would mean activation in August or September, so Nov would only have been a few months of CI use, and...

Interestingly, the hospital in our town has not had an ASL interpreter available for 8 years, because they say there just aren't any to be had. But then again they tell us it has never come up, and they never used the terp they had way back when. Kind of makes me want to go back to school...

Sign language may be an efficient way... but my kid would be the only one in the school who could use it because of the lack of not only peers, but interpreters. As far as the deaf school in Iowa, it is 280 miles away. I know people who put their 10 year old on a bus every Sunday night and...

This is a large part of why we chose CI for our daughter. She needs every communication avenue that we can provide for her. This story hits close to home... Full text: Is anybody listening? Excerpts: Kaufman said she was told by director of Special Services LuAnn Glaser there are no...

That's quite a definition of hearing that you've made up there. Hearing is the perception of sound stimuli. Look it up. Yes, my daughter immediately responded to sounds in her environment, and could discriminate between tones and hand claps, and even find them from a completely different part...

Aside from the technology and decisions, I thought you might also like to know about the surgery experience. Our daughter went in for both implants on the same day, they started surgery around 8am, and she left the hospital and went home with us around 2pm that same day with two implants. It...

I get your gist and agree with it, surgery is surgery, but I can't help but point out that my 12 month old daughter went in for bilateral surgery at 8am and was home and running around our house eating crackers and playing by 4pm like nothing ever happened. And one month later when they...

And a person would be one step farther behind in terms of the ability to upgrade to future releases of external devices. Right?

I would be concerned if I wasn't implanting the latest and most updated version of the company's product.

Hey guys. For my daughter's first year she wouldn't have noticed if we put suffix endings on signed English words, or used ASL word order-- But as she began using the CI with excellent results, our expectations were for her to not only master English, but complex English, grammar and syntax...

Hello CS! No we have not been to any SEE workshops, but that sounds interesting. We mainly use the big yellow SEE dictionary for nouns and verbs, so we're undoubtedly using a very customized version of what is a structured manual language. If you had information about a workshop or skillshop...

So, the Freedom internal is the older technology, right? I'm still trying to figure out how a company can present and heavily market new technology, and then when it is recalled, ask potential patients to consider an older technology that under normal circumstances would be considered the...

Our day care center told us today that they've been having parents come in and say how happy they were that the day care was teaching sign language... only... they haven't been. Apparently, Our 23 month old CI and sign using daughter has been! The signs that have apparently rubbed off on her...

We've had a very good experience with bilateral Advanced Bionics Harmonies for our daughter who was implanted at 1 year old. Have you considered other brands- AB or Med-el? I'm not sure I would want to be "settling" on a decision of this magnitude. Be completely comfortable with your decision...

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How do deaf people get adequate medical information in pharmacies? I manage a retail pharmacy and have worked in many others, and not only have I never had a deaf patient, but I have no idea how I would easily counsel one. What are your experiences?

Our daughter's hearing loss was identified at birth, and she has since been bilaterally implanted, but we did choose to utilize manual communication. We were kind of in the same boat as you in that we expected our daughter to eventually function primarily in the spoken English world, but...