Profoundly deaf - anyone like me, have CI?

Hear Again said:
chevy,

what do you mean by the bolded statement? can you explain?

also, children with ci's do attend deaf schools. in fact, it isn't uncommon for deaf schools to have programs specifically designed for students who have ci's. i also know of many children with ci's who are successfully mainstreamed especially when they are raised in an oral-only environment. (i know that's probably going to rub some of you the wrong way, but it's true)
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If young children with CI attend deaf school but never use ASL.
 
JClarke said:
I am tempted to email to these professionals, but what I have researched, but I am not sure if it would be true. I read People who over 18, is a deaf mute, is profoundly deaf, uses signs and are well invovled in the deaf community is not candidiate for a CI - this what I thought, being a deaf mute; I am not a mute. I talk very well, I sign fluently (Auslan) and am well invovled in the deaf community but I balance well within the hearing world, such as my workplace and other hearing socialisization.
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I know plenty of people who use sign who get CI's, even those born profoundly Deaf.
 
But, faire_jour -- I am 21 years old. It would have been different if I was an candidate, ten years ago; therefore, the technology back then wouldn't be enough to be one.
 
Chevy57 said:
If young children with CI attend deaf school but never use ASL.
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that's not the case for ALL children. for example, faire_jour uses asl with her daughter, miss kat. she is one of many examples of parents who continue using asl with their child despite implantation.
 
10 years ago, those with ossification of the cochlea were not candidates for CI. Now, there is a surgical procedure that can drill out the boney growth in the cochlea so that the electrodes ban be threaded. Also, freedom has split electrodes for partial ossification. As you said, medical advances have changed in 10 years.
 
CHEVY57, take your heated discussion elsewhere, thank you!
 
etalton said:
10 years ago, those with ossification of the cochlea were not candidates for CI. Now, there is a surgical procedure that can drill out the boney growth in the cochlea so that the electrodes ban be threaded. Also, freedom has split electrodes for partial ossification. As you said, medical advances have changed in 10 years.
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That is what I have read a bit; interesting though.
 
JClarke said:
But, faire_jour -- I am 21 years old. It would have been different if I was an candidate, ten years ago; therefore, the technology back then wouldn't be enough to be one.
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There was a movie called "Hear and Now" a few years ago about a profoundly Deaf couple who get CI's in their 60's! They had both been born Deaf and they both got implants and (eventually) were very happy about it.
 
JClarke said:
But, faire_jour -- I am 21 years old. It would have been different if I was an candidate, ten years ago; therefore, the technology back then wouldn't be enough to be one.
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your age shouldn't make a difference. i know a profoundly Deaf (big "D" deaf) ci user who is 85 and using her ci to the fullest extent possible.
 
JClarke said:
That is what I have read a bit; interesting though.
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I read up on it too..after the fact. I didn't know at the time of surgery, but I had meningitis as a child and had ossification, but to a minor degree. They were able to take x-rays and find a spot that was clear to drill. Had that not been the case, I would have had to find a hospital that did the drilling procedure.
 
But the only issue, what is 'ossification' mean, what is it?
 
I just bugged myself to google and defined; turned into bone, while ageing. Interesting.
 
Sorry! about heating discussion.

I was 11 years old to throw out hearing aid. I never think about CI.
 
I just sent a question to the cochlear centre in Sydney to see if they can answer my question.
 
It all comes down to personal choice. For me, it was an easy decision. While I may have had meningitis as a child, I did not lose my hearing then because the fever broke in time. After being a hearing person for over 50 years, CI was the only choice I could make. For others it is different.
 
Similar to what I have asked, in the first post, if peolpe with similar condition as mine, would be eligible to be candiate for the CI.
 
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