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When people find out my son is Deaf and they do the whole "Oh, I'm SO sorry" thing, we'll look them in eye and ask bluntly, "Why?" It's funny watching them fumble for an answer that won't make look like a complete dick.

I had no idea that people moved their mouths differently when speaking with an accent. You learn something new every day.

Her objection seems to be based on the premise that speech therapy and language coaching is a bad thing in and of itself, so she is downplaying the extent to which her child benefits from it. Frankly, I don't get it.

I think the big thing parents need to know is that it's almost completely up to them. If you don't walk into the IEP meeting well-informed and well-educated and ready to be an "expert witness" on your child's behalf then the school district is going to walk all over you, and you likely won't...

I'm in the home stretch now. Just two quarters of practicum, then hopefully steady employment.

Nobody has said that Grendel made the wrong choice for her child. The only thing any of us have done is offer corrections when she and others provide false or misleading information. I would expect anybody to do the same for me. It's nothing personal.

I do not consider it "attacking or criticizing or dismissing" to state the facts in response to incorrect information.

Well then it appears you made contradictory statements, and I picked the "wrong" horn of the contradiction to take issue with. Fair enough. I apologize for the confusion.

You mean this?

Same thing happens with hearing aids. What's happening is that all sound is being indiscriminately amplified forcing the brain to work harder to pick useful information out of the "wall of sound". That's why some days my son just doesn't want to wear his hearing aids, and frankly, I don't...

Because that's exactly what you said: "...she hears all the sounds that you do, likely many more." This is precisely what I've been saying, so why are you arguing?

Except that he generally doesn't set things up, so he'll run up to us, whip out some classifiers, use them to tell a story about someone doing something and something else came over and did something to the person and it was really funny, and then he's off again, and sometimes we have no idea...

It's possible, but she did later say that her daughter "hears all the sounds that you do, likely many more", which makes me think I didn't misunderstand her meaning the first time around.

I'm honestly not seeing a difference between what you said and what I said you said. "full access to speech sounds at the levels of a typical hearing child" = "can hear speech sounds with the same fidelity as a typical hearing person" *shrug*

To a degree, yes. He absolutely loves having stories read/signed to him, and he often tells me what's going to happen before I turn the page (if it's a book he's read before). Or sometimes if he's experienced something recently, he'll reenact it with minimal signs.

I never said people couldn't gain benefit from CI. They obviously can. I was simply pointing out that Grendel was incorrect to say that her daughter can hear speech sounds with the same fidelity as a typical hearing person.

I still have no idea what you're objecting to. All I've done is state the facts. Why does this make you so angry?

Very briefly, my son is 5-years old and profoundly deaf. He wears hearing aids but only to give him access to environmental sounds. He theoretically has access to speech sounds, but he doesn't respond to them. My wife and I have been learning ASL for the past several years and use it at home...

I find this response confusing. What exactly are you objecting to?

Here's a simulation of what cochlear implants sound like: Cochlear Implant Simulations Please tell me that even the 32 channel sample (pretty much state of the art for current CI technology) is as good as natural hearing.