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<blockquote data-quote="Tristen" data-source="post: 2521069" data-attributes="member: 81747">I can't stress enough to your friend how important doing her OWN research is. She is going to be told so many conflicting things, from so many different people, whether ENTs, audiologists, Deaf adults, Deaf school mentors, the list goes on and on. The best thing she can do is just her own research, and there's a ton out there. I read a lot of long term studies on kids with CIs, deaf kids without aids, deaf adults. I lurked on websites like this for months and months, trying to get a sense of the CI debate, ASL, TC, oralism, etc. Doctors fundamentally think deafness is something to be cured. They're always going to be on that side of the fence. I was recently at my daughter's audiologist appointment (over 3 hours away too!) and they had a poster comparing a child growing up deaf compared to with hearing aids/CIs. It was total BS. But that's their world, they want to &quot;fix&quot; everything. At the end of the day, the audiologist isn't her only resource. Like the other posters said, there are so many other resources out there. Only when she decides what she wants to do, should she go to the audiologist. And when they push speech and spoken language and tell her to not teach ASL, she needs to say, Thanks for the info, I'll make my own decision. And be done with it. They don't matter, in the bigger picture of what she needs to worry about for her daughter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tristen, post: 2521069, member: 81747"] I can't stress enough to your friend how important doing her OWN research is. She is going to be told so many conflicting things, from so many different people, whether ENTs, audiologists, Deaf adults, Deaf school mentors, the list goes on and on. The best thing she can do is just her own research, and there's a ton out there. I read a lot of long term studies on kids with CIs, deaf kids without aids, deaf adults. I lurked on websites like this for months and months, trying to get a sense of the CI debate, ASL, TC, oralism, etc. Doctors fundamentally think deafness is something to be cured. They're always going to be on that side of the fence. I was recently at my daughter's audiologist appointment (over 3 hours away too!) and they had a poster comparing a child growing up deaf compared to with hearing aids/CIs. It was total BS. But that's their world, they want to "fix" everything. At the end of the day, the audiologist isn't her only resource. Like the other posters said, there are so many other resources out there. Only when she decides what she wants to do, should she go to the audiologist. And when they push speech and spoken language and tell her to not teach ASL, she needs to say, Thanks for the info, I'll make my own decision. And be done with it. They don't matter, in the bigger picture of what she needs to worry about for her daughter. [/QUOTE]

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