Support or Against Cochlear Implants

Support or against CI ?

  • I support CI

    Votes: 22 44.0%

  • I am against CI

    Votes: 10 20.0%

  • I am lost and confused

    Votes: 2 4.0%

  • I am neutral

    Votes: 16 32.0%
  • Total voters
    50
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Oh, and I still haven't voted in the poll because I don't feel like it is an honest question. How can you support or be against a piece of equipment?

Poll: Are you supportive or against iPods?

It doesn't make sense.
 
overthepond said:
I ticked I support CI but thought about it it's wrong answer, I am NETURAL about it, as a CI user, I don't care what people think about me having CI, and is friends with Non-CI user even they are not sure about it, I don't Hype about it just correct the facts of what they heard for example they said CI makes you Hearing, I corrected that CI is like even powerful HA and I am still deaf and same person at the end of the day.

Having CI is Person's own choice. Thats why i said i don't care about other who's againist me (not that i have anyone who is!!) I chose to have CI for me not for anyone else and because I want to hear a little better. I will give advice to people who ASKS for help/advice.
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:gpost: I am a CI user and these are the same thoughts I have as well. What would be the purpose of determining what is prefferring or not prefferring a CI? It is a device among others to aid in hearing. Sorry, but I am not sympathetic to the insecurity of deaf people. How would they like it if others started to criticize their method of signing? :roll:
 
faire_jour said:
Oh, and I still haven't voted in the poll because I don't feel like it is an honest question. How can you support or be against a piece of equipment?

Poll: Are you supportive or against iPods?

It doesn't make sense.
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I'm with you and agree. I'm big fans IPOD! I can't wait to listen the music when I receive CI. :) "I support CI" is still leading over "I'm neutral & I am against CI" Don't attention to other member think about you and your daughter. If she want choice to receive CI to hear. That's great! Good luck

Did you check my last #60 post of Blog website below?
 
faire_jour said:
Not true in all cases! My daughter is getting a CI but ASL is her first language and attends a bi-bi school for the Deaf. Just because we are using a different technology on her ear doesn't mean that we are using a different communication plan.
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Good for you, and I have applauded your decision to continue with ASL many times.

Unfortunately, the majority of CIs are done to facillitate oral communication.
 
rick48 said:
As has been demonstrated just by the very small sample on this board, there are children and adults with cochlear implants utilizing a diverse range of communication methodologies, thus they not only can be discussed separately, they were in fact being done so in this very thread.
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While they can be discussed separately, they are inherently tied together, particularly in the case of early infant and child implants.
 
rick48 said:
And I am a firm believer in parents undertaking their parental responsibilities and obligations seriously and making decisions for their children so that their children can be provided with benefits and opportunities as early as possible that will ultimately give them the ability to make real choices and options when they are mature enought to make those decisions for themselves.

Providing or not providing your child with a cochlear implant is but one part of a child's life experience, however, parents delaying or ignoring a decision may not necessarily be in a child's best interests and may actually limit their options.
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And parents making a decision early and on behalf of their child is offered no more a quarantee that they are doing anything that will prove beneficial to their child at all.

Deaf children can make real choices and have very real options without a CI, as well. It is not the CI that is responsible for any child's success.
 
When CI first came out, I shared my findings with my parents and was :shock: to find out that they were dead against it!

Now that I am an adult--I have no reason for it. Just an unnecessary expense is my opinion.
 
jillio said:
And parents making a decision early and on behalf of their child is offered no more a quarantee that they are doing anything that will prove beneficial to their child at all.

Deaf children can make real choices and have very real options without a CI, as well. It is not the CI that is responsible for any child's success.
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I believe you meant guarantee, but no one I know of who chose a ci for their child did so with the belief that any result was guaranteed but I know that you specifically chose that word to avoid the fact that correlation between the shorter the time from onset of deafness to implantation and successful use of the cochlear implant has been long established. Thus, while no "guarantee" it is a well documented the benefits a child derives when implanted as soon as possible after the onset of deafness.

No one is saying that a child without a ci cannot be successful, have options and choices. Stop being so defensive and seeing the world only through the prisim of your parental decision.

Having raised a child with a cochlear implant I can tell you from personal experience that you have no idea what you are talking about when you say that a ci is not responsible for any child's success.
 
rick48 said:
I believe you meant guarantee, but no one I know of who chose a ci for their child did so with the belief that any result was guaranteed but I know that you specifically chose that word to avoid the fact that correlation between the shorter the time from onset of deafness to implantation and successful use of the cochlear implant has been long established. Thus, while no "guarantee" it is a well documented the benefits a child derives when implanted as soon as possible after the onset of deafness.

No one is saying that a child without a ci cannot be successful, have options and choices. Stop being so defensive and seeing the world only through the prisim of your parental decision.

Having raised a child with a cochlear implant I can tell you from personal experience that you have no idea what you are talking about when you say that a ci is not responsible for any child's success.
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Come on, Rick. Surely, you know that in order for the CI to be successful alot fo work goes into the therapy. To say what you just did implies that from the moment of implantation, the CI is a success. That's not true! It takes a lot of time and effort that is put into the therapy to make it work.

I think Jillio knows that and that is what she was referring to.
 
I'm going to throw my input

A parent has the right on how they want to raise their child

Their is no, ifs, and but about it.

Your child may have an illness that a certain culture or religion is against.

Will that stop you?


It is not always life threating.
 
BradB08 said:
What's wrong? Can't handle dissenting opinions?

I'm against CIs and have been for years, ever since I turned down a CI when I was 8 years old.
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Even though the originator didn't want to know reasons (yeah right), what are your reasons for being against CI's.
 
rockdrummer said:
Even though the originator didn't want to know reasons (yeah right), what are your reasons for being against CI's.
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1. I believe they're unnatural.

2. If you are Deaf, you are likely Deaf for a reason. Why change it? Again, it's nice to have the option to change it but personally, I don't see the point. Does this mean that I'm against other people doing it? Not at all.

3. I believe it treats deafness as a disease. To some people, getting a CI "cures" their deafness. I don't see it as a disease or a handicap.
 
BradB08 said:
1. I believe they're unnatural.

2. If you are Deaf, you are likely Deaf for a reason. Why change it? Again, it's nice to have the option to change it but personally, I don't see the point. Does this mean that I'm against other people doing it? Not at all.

3. I believe it treats deafness as a disease. To some people, getting a CI "cures" their deafness. I don't see it as a disease or a handicap.
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So you are against hearing aids too? All those things are true about aids too.
 
BradB08 said:
1. I believe they're unnatural.

2. If you are Deaf, you are likely Deaf for a reason. Why change it? Again, it's nice to have the option to change it but personally, I don't see the point. Does this mean that I'm against other people doing it? Not at all.

3. I believe it treats deafness as a disease. To some people, getting a CI "cures" their deafness. I don't see it as a disease or a handicap.
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OK, now my question is what do you think about hearing aids? :hmm:
 
Angel said:
OK, now my question is what do you think about hearing aids? :hmm:
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Cochlear Implants require major surgery and may affect one person's physically while hearing aids do not. So CI is "unnatural".
 
lumbingmi said:
Cochlear Implants require major surgery and may affect one person's physically while hearing aids do not. So CI is "unnatural".
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Well, that is why I feel it shoud be an individual's personal choice. *shrug*
 
Angel said:
OK, now my question is what do you think about hearing aids? :hmm:
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Hearing aids are like prescription eyewear. They do not "cure" deafness (just as glasses do not cure blindness/nearsightedness/etc) but rather they amplify those respective senses.
 
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