Growing Up With a Cochlear Implant [new study in Oxford Journal of Deaf Studies ...]

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Growing Up With a Cochlear Implant: Education, Vocation, and Affiliation
Oxford Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Fall 2012
Linda J. Spencer*,1, J. Bruce Tomblin2 and Bruce J. Gantz3
Revision received May 31, 2012.

Abstract

The long-term educational/vocational, affiliation, and quality-of-life outcomes of the first and second cohorts of children with bilateral, profound hearing loss who received cochlear implants under a large National Institutes of Health–funded study was investigated in 41 of 61 eligible participants. Educational and vocational outcomes were collected from user survey data. Affiliation and quality-of-life data were collected from the Satisfaction-with-Life scale and the Deaf Identity Scale.

Qualitative results indicated that compared with their hearing, adult-age peers, this group obtained high educational achievement, and they reported a very high satisfaction of life.

With respect to forming an identity in these first 2 cohorts of cochlear implant users, we found that most of the individuals endorsed a dual identity, which indicates they feel just as comfortable with Deaf individuals as they do with hearing individuals.

Quantitative results revealed a significant relationship between ability to hear and ability to speak, in addition to consistency of device use.

Additional relationships were found between mother’s and the individual’s educational statuses, hearing scores, and communication system used.

Younger individuals scored higher on satisfaction-with-life measures, and they also tended to endorse a dual identity more often.

Taken together, these findings diminish concerns that profoundly deaf individuals growing up with cochlear implants will become culturally bereft and unable to function in the hearing world.
 
Always good to read how well children are doing with CI. Our kids are not above average.. Most children benefit tremendously from CI.

Good to read they have no problem with their identity.
Will have to read the article in order to find out how they came to that conclusion. It would indicate there's a lot of children with CI that have good contact with Deaf society.. Or did they mean deaf individuals..?

Thanks for the post.
 
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