http://cochlearimplantonline.com/
This is a great website!! Rachel Chaikof made this website!
This is the story I wrote that she asked me for.
Melissa, a blogger from My Journey with Nucleus Freedom, and I met each other through a Facebook group called The CI Community. For the past few weeks, we’ve been sharing our stories and talking about our life in general. Melissa is an example of a cochlear implant user who grew up with hearing aids and then received a CI later in her childhood. She noticed positive differences in her hearing with a cochlear implant compared to her hearing with hearing aids.
I’m Melissa, I’m 18 years old and I have a Nucleus Freedom. I received my cochlear implant at ten years old. My life has changed so much since then. I wasn’t born deaf but my hearing was destroyed by aminoglycosides antibiotics after my premature birth at 28 weeks gestation. I was diagnosed as severely deaf at 9 months old and got my first bilateral hearing aids at 14 months. I attended a deaf school from 3-11 years old , the class sizes were so small and you got more 1-1 attention with teachers and there was a oral and SSE policy, so teachers used both while communicating with us deaf children. I was so upset when I left because I loved it so much! My hearing loss deteriorated at around 7/8 years old so my parents, my audiologist and I decided to go through the cochlear implant assessment to see if I was eligible, after a long year of tests and assessments I was found to be eligible! I had my operation at the nearest hospital to me who did cochlear implants. After my operation I was quite sick and tired but I was so excited for my activation day! After my activation I was able to hear many sounds that I could never hear before and still today I am hearing new sounds although I’ve been implanted eight years. I am currently in college studying childcare, I enjoy working with children but it is a challenge sometimes, my cochlear implant doesn’t give me perfect hearing, I still struggle and stuff but it’s great and I could never live without it! I still rely on lip-reading heavily but I can hear people talking when I am not lip-reading but I chose to lip-read as it makes words clearer. My favourite sounds have to be fireworks crackling and the rain. I am not a music fan, I never have been and don’t think I would want to listen to music, to me at the moment it is not important. Growing up with my Cochlear Implant was great, I heard so much and it improved my speech, before the implant I wasn’t able to hear some letters such as ‘CH’,’S’,’SH’, but now I can and it has helped me to communicate better with people.
Please read my blog at www.deafgirllovesoaps.blogspot.com
This is a great website!! Rachel Chaikof made this website!
This is the story I wrote that she asked me for.
Melissa, a blogger from My Journey with Nucleus Freedom, and I met each other through a Facebook group called The CI Community. For the past few weeks, we’ve been sharing our stories and talking about our life in general. Melissa is an example of a cochlear implant user who grew up with hearing aids and then received a CI later in her childhood. She noticed positive differences in her hearing with a cochlear implant compared to her hearing with hearing aids.
I’m Melissa, I’m 18 years old and I have a Nucleus Freedom. I received my cochlear implant at ten years old. My life has changed so much since then. I wasn’t born deaf but my hearing was destroyed by aminoglycosides antibiotics after my premature birth at 28 weeks gestation. I was diagnosed as severely deaf at 9 months old and got my first bilateral hearing aids at 14 months. I attended a deaf school from 3-11 years old , the class sizes were so small and you got more 1-1 attention with teachers and there was a oral and SSE policy, so teachers used both while communicating with us deaf children. I was so upset when I left because I loved it so much! My hearing loss deteriorated at around 7/8 years old so my parents, my audiologist and I decided to go through the cochlear implant assessment to see if I was eligible, after a long year of tests and assessments I was found to be eligible! I had my operation at the nearest hospital to me who did cochlear implants. After my operation I was quite sick and tired but I was so excited for my activation day! After my activation I was able to hear many sounds that I could never hear before and still today I am hearing new sounds although I’ve been implanted eight years. I am currently in college studying childcare, I enjoy working with children but it is a challenge sometimes, my cochlear implant doesn’t give me perfect hearing, I still struggle and stuff but it’s great and I could never live without it! I still rely on lip-reading heavily but I can hear people talking when I am not lip-reading but I chose to lip-read as it makes words clearer. My favourite sounds have to be fireworks crackling and the rain. I am not a music fan, I never have been and don’t think I would want to listen to music, to me at the moment it is not important. Growing up with my Cochlear Implant was great, I heard so much and it improved my speech, before the implant I wasn’t able to hear some letters such as ‘CH’,’S’,’SH’, but now I can and it has helped me to communicate better with people.
Please read my blog at www.deafgirllovesoaps.blogspot.com
