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Are you saying my interpretation of what you typed is correct? It would be easier if I could just see a video of you signing things. I don't mean that in an insulting way, it is just that your written English is nearly incomprehensible.

I'm going to try to translate what you wrote to English, tell me if my translation is incorrect. "I (Smithtr) had 10 years of experience with a cochlear implant. I know how cochlear implants are supposed to [work?]. It is a risky surgery. One becomes sure of one's opinion. I understand. There...

I don't know what you are trying to say.

Heather is an exceptional person and fairly unusual. As you can see in Sound and Fury, her grandmother works with her on listening and speaking well before she gets a cochlear implant. The argument for implanting children early is not to make them like hearing people but to give them the best...

Haha. I didn't see the hair comment. Yeah, my cochlear implant processor and headpiece are bright blue. I wouldn't want to hide it because I can finally hear.

Don't feel like you are less d/Deaf because you don't know ASL. I've known ASL my whole life but have felt marganilized because I choose to speak and sign. This is your education, learning ASL might be good for social reasons and maybe for educational reasons but I'm assuming you choose NTID...

:ty: totally agree. From infancy till around age 3-4 the brain is amazingly changeable (I've been told I use medical terminology too often so I'm trying to change that). Waiting until a child is 12 or 16 or 18 so that they can "choose" a cochlear implant is not a choice at all. They are not...

This book seems very biased. Think of it like this- hearing aids can be beneficial to some people with hearing loss and help them interact with the "hearing world". But hearing aids can be taken off, allowing the person to relax in relative quiet. For people like me with profound hearing...

Argh. This keeps coming up on Facebook. I know a few people (very few) have had a choice between a BAHA and CI but they are not the same! People ask on the Facebook groups "which is cheaper?". Um....they are totally different. [this is off topic but has been bugging me for a while] People with...

If you are talking about cochlear implants, the benefits of a body worn controller are longer battery life and...that is it. I can only speak about advanced bionics because that is what I have but the BTE configuration allows for natural microphone placement (the t-mic is placed near the enter...

The problem is that the cochlea has thousands of specialized cells that are tuned to specific frequencies. They pick up sounds and transmit them to the brain to be processed. Skin has several vibratory cells (pascinian corpuscles) but these are attuned to mechanical vibration and not frequency...

I was implanted in January with advanced bionics and have done remarkably well in such a short time. Before the CI I understood around 11% of speech in quiet in a testing booth with high powered hearing aids with both ears together (and the volume of the tests was at 100db). Now, I only have my...

To address your first point, it is very easy to objectively measure the brain's response to sound using an ABR. If a kid shows no response to 120 dB of sound what makes you think that 130db of sound will be the magical token to understanding spoken language? Studies have shown that by the time a...

The surgery is absolutely safe. Much more safe than a cholecystectomy (removal of the gall bladder). The most important time in a child's brain development is between birth and age 3. One reason why cochlear implants don't always work out is because they are performed on adults who have...

Dude, I'm sorry you happened to get involved in a cochlear implant vs not debate, it wasn't your intention to get involved in this. I just have to say, as a former 100m sprinter, 100m hurdler, and 4x100m and 4x200m, running and conversing about running (esp sprints) isn't something to worry...

I apologize. It just seems like you are against cochlear implants in many posts. Can you give a link to the Johns Hopkins study? I'm interested in this subject. The thing about cochlear implants is that it isn't like a hearing aid at all. If you are a candidate for a cochlear implant...

But can't we make this all about how cochlear implants are killing Deaf culture and the parents are abusive for providing their child with the opportunity and tools to hear? (So much sarcasm). If someone who claims to be all for the "full toolbox" approach to deaf education is against cochlear...

If you are so "pro-full toolbox" why are you so against cochlear implants?

Please tell me you are just trolling. Without my CI I can totally still communicate as long as I'm signing with someone who knows ASL AND I'm wearing my glasses. I hate wearing my glasses but I wear them and have worn them since I was 4. (My parents didn't know I was visually impaired until I...

Well, now you can ask your husband "if the magnet is only on the outside, how does the headpiece stick to the implant (the headpiece has a magnet in it)?" Is is magic or is it something logical like the implant has a magnet that attracts the magnet in the headpiece? Back in the day people...