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I don't understand why you think I'm bashing anything when all I'm doing is stating facts. Why do you find this so distasteful? Again, no. This is a physical impossibility. 24 electrodes verses 16,000 hair cells. It's simply no contest in favor of natural hearing. If someone is telling...

No, I am objecting to your claim that she has the hearing of a typical hearing child when this is literally and unequivocally impossible. State of the art cochlear implants only have 24 electrodes versus the 16,000 hair cells that exist in a healthy cochlea. Thus, it is literally physically...

That is physically impossible. Cochlear implants do not come even close to providing the same fidelity as natural hearing. This is another example of those in favor of cochlear implants providing misleading or outright false information. But when I say that children with cochlear implants...

So that's all the therapy she receives and has ever received? The occasional game and heart to heart talk? Sorry, but I don't believe you. You've never taken a class in linguistics, have you? Because everything you said in the above paragraph is pretty much dead wrong.

I'm not sure what you're looking for exactly. If you mean a simple guide for translating English to ASL, you're unlikely to find anything like that. And for the record, neither of those examples are ASL. I might translate the first one as: CITY YOU FROM NAME WHAT? and the second: SIGN...

It is, and the pay can be good if you get in with the right company (Sorenson is pretty much the cream of the crop), but it's also stressful work -- mentally, emotionally, and physically -- and the burn-out rate is fairly high.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to make you feel sick. If this is something you are seriously considering as a career, perhaps you should sit down and have a chat with the head of the program at your local school (assuming it's local); or you could at least give them a call. They could give you a...

What some might call intensive speech therapy, yes? :whistle: So if Cvtorres and his family decide that cochlear implants are the way to go, they should be prepared for the child to undergo years of intensive speech therapy. Is this the truth or scare tactics? Based on your own experiences...

Why would you expect them to be participants on this forum? That seems a rather odd criteria by which to judge the accuracy of my statements. But since they're not here, maybe you would trust a source like the University of Miami School of Medicine? Getting a cochlear implant is a lifetime...

They're still repetitive actives. But now I feel like you're just splitting hairs in order to get away from the real point: Speech therapy, with very few exceptions, is necessary for children with cochlear implants with the majority of children needing it far beyond the idealized "3 to 5...

Yet it's still a repetitious activity with specific goals (even if those goals are unknown to the child). Unless you're trying to say that your therapist just plays arbitrary games with your daughter and hopes she gets something out of it? But never mind the actual activities, the point is...

It's a drill in the sense that it's a repetitious activity that is performed until the child gets it "right" or until the therapist is satisfied, at which point they move on to the next activity. But regardless, it's all speech therapy, and it's very real necessity for children with cochlear...

That's because your child is not my child.

Why, that almost sounds like a drill. I thought you didn't do those.

Oh, I get it. Everybody's experience except yours is "wrong". :roll:

Oh, so now we've gone from "no speech therapy" to weekly sessions until the age of three (or five... which is it?), at which point, what, the child is just cut loose and no more therapy of any kind? From that point on they will function like a typical hearing child with no language delays...

Both of my hearing children are involved in speech therapy, so, yes, I do know what I'm talking about. I've seen the eye rolls when I have them repeat something until they get it right. Also, try opening your eyes and read the experiences of Deaf adults that are posted in any number of threads...

When you say no "formal speech therapy", do you mean no speech therapy whatsoever (even if it's just the parents doing it on their own)? But even if you mean zero speech therapy, that's still not the norm, and any parent is misinformed if they have their child implanted with the expectation...

Even games and fun outings can be part of an intensive speech therapy regimen, but to suggest that it's nothing but games and fun outings is, again, very misleading.

It's not a scare tactic. It's the truth, and anybody who tries to downplay the necessity of speech therapy for implanted children is giving bad advice. As has already been pointed out, Grendel's daughter is a rare exception to the point of almost being unique. It's also worth pointing out...