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I have an advanced bionics brand cochlear implant and after almost 2 years with it, I'm enjoying music more and more. I definitely focused on understanding speech for the first year and a half and it took time for the music I had grown used to as a profoundly deaf person with hearing aids sounds...

I hated hearing aids because I was too deaf to benefit from them so all I heard was noise. With a cochlear implant, I hear clear sound at a comfortable level and don't spend hours everyday laying in bed trying to get my ears to stop ringing. I even tried out a hearing aid in my unimplanted...

I've had my cochlear implant for almost 2 years (will be 2 years in February) and I can't imagine not having it. I wore high powered hearing aids for years and they just blasted sound into my deaf ears and gave me headaches. Now, I look forward to putting on my processor every morning. To the...

That's the spirit! Just have happy arguments where nobody criticizes anybody and everybody agrees!

SPs being speech processor(s)? I only have one ear implanted but a month after activation my PTA with the implant was 20dB (except for a 30 dB in the high frequency because I had never heard that before and didn't like it at all) and speech scores were something like 88% on AZ bio and I did so...

Question for LoveBlue Your signature says "Severe-to-profound hearing loss in both ears. SD @ 110db L-62% / 100db R-84% - unaided Phonak Naida IX UPs" Are those percentages your speech discrimination/sentence/word scores? If so, those are ****ing amazing scores. For testing to get a CI...

Hitler learned about eugenics from americans and their forced sterilization of seemingly subpar (meaning not as good as "normal people") people. The "genetic deaf" you refer to were students or "inmates" at German schools/asylums for the Deaf and they weren't killed in ovens, they were the...

The gift of being Deaf? I'm all for ASL and inclusive education but when people educated in Deaf schools can't hold menial jobs because of the inability to communicate, that isn't a gift. Deaf education isn't funded or implemented well and the level of literacy reflects that. Giving kids...

With thresholds that severe, your brother likely isn't a candidate for bonebridge which is a bone conduction device for conductive hearing loss. Pure conductive hearing loss can only be up to 50-60dB (someone without ears, ear canals, ossicles, but with a normal cochlea I'll have hearing loss...

A cochlear implant very well could change your world. You could be one of the many who benefit greatly and are able to hear well enough to talk on the phone, you could be even more independent. Getting a cochlear implant won't change who you are, it is a tool that is much, much, much better for...

You know what let me hear? A cochlear implant.

Your husband needs to see a neurologist. I highly doubt the cochlear implant is causing problems but a multitude of conditions can cause vertigo and imbalance. What is worrisome is that he walks like he is drunk. That is more indicative of peripheral nerve problems. Does he complain that the...

Advanced Bionics has the best technology. Multiple simultaneous stimulation points at the same time make hearing more natural (think a chord vs one note). Med El brags endlessly about their long electrode but what they don't mention is that their electrode is placed on the outer edge of the...

What are you saying? Vertigo and hearing loss often go hand in hand because the same or similar types of hair cells that are involved with hearing in the cochela are involved with balance in the semicircular canals and sacculae. I don't know what the hell smithtr is trying to say. It would be...

There are exceptions for every rule. Some oral kids might have perfect grammar but low literacy. Some deaf school kids can barely form a coherent sentence. Neither group are expected to achieve the same goals as hearing kids and that is utter bullshit. How many deaf or hard of hearing students...

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Can anybody who is in a Deaf school provide syllabuses for your English/Literature classes? I'm starting to think that schools set the goals for deaf students very low so that they look good when students reach the low goals but this severely limits what students can achieve. Hearing students...

Don't be afraid to ask questions in the future. You will find many different answers here. Some may be good, some may be confusing, some may be bad but that is what you get when you ask a diverse community a question.

I've had my Naida since February and have not had any problems other than a broken cable (which wasn't really a problem since I had an extra and AB sent me a new cable overnight). I don't think I'm just lucky. I live in a very hot and humid area, I am active, I sweat, I get caught in rain...

There are laws regarding recording phone calls that you should be aware of. I am not a lawyer and can't advise you on this. Check out the laws for your jurisdiction. Recording Phone Calls and Conversations | Digital Media Law Project If you are trying to participate in conversations, use a...