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Yeah, I think I will bow out of this one.

One can be melodic with access to a limited range of frequencies. For that matter, even someone profoundly deaf can develop a melodic speaking voice with enough therapy and training. Your anecdote doesn't contradict anything I have said.

What's your point? The simulation is not going to sound the same to her as it does to us. It's like having a color blind man look through a filter that simulates color blindness and having him declare, "But that's not how it looks to me at all!" Serious question: How would he know?

dB and frequency are two different things. You do know this, don't you? There's a disconnect between what you think you're seeing and what you're really seeing. When a CI is in place, the eardrum is still responding to whatever sound wave is hitting it. That's simple physics. However, a...

Grendel implied as much when she said that her 5-year old "measured [at a] level of a typical hearing child, including access to all speech sounds," and you did too when you said, "My child (and the majority of kids with implants) have access to all the sounds of speech." CI allows access to...

Read my post again again. I'm not talking about expectations. Here's a simulation of what a cochlear implant sounds like: Cochlear implant: simulation on speech and music - YouTube It's an inarguable fact that current CI technology is simply no match for natural hearing in terms of...

It is a physical impossibility for a CI to give access to the full range of speech sounds. We're talking 24 electrodes versus thousands of cilia in the inner ear. CI allows reception of sounds at a limited number of points along the speech banana, but that's a long ways from giving access to...

Classic example: She might have access to enough speech sounds to effectively use spoken language, but she doesn't have access to all speech sounds and certainly not to the "level of a typical hearing child". Another common claim is that children with cochlear implants have "natural access...

stormpraiser91: This is an extremely controversial and volatile topic that has been discussed here many times, and any attempt to answer your list of questions would likely result in another lengthy thread full of heated arguments and raw emotions, so you'll have to understand if folks here...

Although it is funny that the lead character just happens to be an expert on whatever eclectic topic happens to be driving that story's plot.

I'm familiar with the use of regional signs, but I'm not as familiar with sign "dialects". It does makes sense, though. I've heard that Galludet alumni can recognize each other based on signing style.

The school I'm attending has a stellar reputation though they are not yet accredited. A favorite story among ITP students is how a gal with a PhD in psychology got a few quarters into the program and dropped out because she found it too challenging! It's essentially a four-year degree packed...

The general rule of ASL is time-topic-comment, or object-subject-verb, but sometimes short sentences don't follow this structure, especially in casual conversation. So there are a few possibilities: The book is showing incorrect examples and you've misunderstood the intent The book is showing...

YouTube doesn't actually control the content on their site since it's all user driven, so whatever closed captioning you get is generally whatever the uploader has elected to put on there. On a different note, I've noticed that many video games have very poor captioning. The only developer...

The ASK/QUESTION sign if signed toward self also looks like the gesture for "Come here." This confused my son once when I was trying to get him to ask me something. Instead of clarifying his question, he walked towards me!

That's about it. By law "reasonable accommodation" doesn't necessarily mean good accommodation. As long as they are making a good faith effort to provide closed captioning (meaning they are at least attempting to provide it in some capacity) then they are in full compliance with the law even...

Another name for these is adverbials.

Usually at the same time as the sign you want to emphasize.

"Cha" is what you mouth to indicate that something is very large (as in volume). There are different adverbials used to indicate height ("tah") and distance ("fah"). "Pah" is commonly used with the sign for SUCCESS and could be interpreted as "Finally!". While it is coupled with other signs...

The fingerspelling app is next to useless, unfortunately. You really can't learn to read fingerspelling by watching a series of still images played in succession since handshapes are never that clear and distinct in real life.