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Bone conduction absolutely will NOT work if he has damaged cochleas. If he had conductive hearing loss (middle ear damage) they would work perfectly but so would regular headphones turned up loud (since the maximum pure conductive hearing loss is around 50dB (as in a person born without an ear...

I’m in a similar situation. Possibly moving to Ireland and would love to connect with Irish Deafies.

The earmold for the Phonak Naida. (first generation) I sometimes wear in my unimplanted ear. I asked for clear with a little blue and blue sparkles. I don’t wear it often because I have no real hearing in that ear except for 100dB at 500hz

So, there is a fairly famous "youtuber" who claims to be "totally deaf" yet this person plays computer videogames while being paid without hearing aids and with headphones. This person seems to me to be using their self described "single sided severe hearing loss with mild loss on the other...

Here is a photo of the Kanso that illustrates my point. https://mobile.twitter.com/Melissalaneous5/status/845414036636422148/photo/1

They are from different companies so a direct comparison is impossible. However, the microphone(s) for each are over the internal part which for me would place the mics BEHIND my ears and microphones are important. Human ears are designed to pick up and amplify sound from the direction where you...

BiCROS could work, so could regular CROS. I have profound hearing loss in both ears and a CI in my right ear. I could use CROS but it would be better to just get a 2nd implant which is what I’m trying to do.

There are many approved procedures to open eustatian tubes. They aren’t “surgery” they insert a tiny catheter into the tube, inflate a balloon that expands the diameter of the tube. A small metal stent can be placed to keep the eustacian tube open. This procedure could cure most people with mild...

I use my compilot with my cochlear implant and incad absolutely leave the room and actually hear the TV anywhere in my house. You can also just press the main "big button" to pause sound when you leave a room. That is helpful to me because my CI is set to 75% compilot and I only have an...

I have progressive hearing loss that probably began very early and I was severely HOH/d/Deaf (I learned ASL at my integrated school). By the time I started college at age 18 I had pretty severe hearing loss, I was profoundly deaf 2.5 years later. I got my implant At age 27, activated a few weeks...

What is funny is that my audiologist is a CODA and all the audiologists in his clinic (3 or 4 of them) told me I was NOT a CI candidate despite having NO MEASURABLE HEARING above 1kHz. Doctors, unless they are ENTs, know nothing about CIs. The audiologists wanted me to have stronger hearing...

Not everybody wants to be Deaf. I love my CI but didn't get it until 3 years ago. I love hearing and sign.

Longer doesn't mean better. Think of the cochlea as a spiral staircase. The outer rail and the inner pole start and end in the same place. ABs midscala electrode hugs the "inner" part of this spiral. Other electrodes HAVE to be longer because they are basically the outside rail.

Awwww, you're like that guy who "totally isn't a racist" because he has that black friend. I hope that you can develop the ability to see that, yes, there is a pathological process but that does not mean it is unhealthy. People are not defined by one aspect of the universe that makes up an...

Your instructor is assuming that people with disabilities don't have the ability to be autonomous thinking humans. Your instructor has gone so far that he/she is almost arguing against him/herself. As both a D/deaf person with a CI (activated 3 years and 4 days ago) and a medical professional...

I used to work in a lab that focussed on regenerating hair cells to improve hearing. The reason these things are all "far off in the future" is because it would be extraordinarily dangerous to use experimental approach is on humans before establishing their safety and efficacy. This is part of...

A few things: Not everyone or even most people with Ménière's disease go deaf. You are currently moderately hard of hearing you function in the hearing World. Semantics aside, advanced bionics has wonderful music reproduction ability. I was never a professional musician but I can tell you...

Questioning my reading compression is pretty rich coming from s person who can manage to sting proper English words together to make a coherent thought. Also, I finished graduate school 2 years ago.

At least glue ear goes away. Probably 8 times in my life I woke up with no hearing in one or the other ear. Eventually I had nothing in either. It was terrifying to tell professors that my "good ear" was totally Deaf all of the sudden. I went to the college health clinic who always sent me to a...

What about this? A Deaf child who is being raised by hearing parents who are fluent in ASL?