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Keep rocking and forget to count any more birthdays! Cheers and big piece of birthday cake for you.

Assuming the "cultural deaf" person can write to the" non signing deaf" person in the language they both" may use in the area they both live".

Read the multiple comments on various matters relating to deafness. Which ones you accept/don't accept could broaden your understanding of the ongoing discussion. Welcome to Alldeaf.com

From very direct experience-daily-disconnecting my Cochlear Implant back to SILENCE. It is also disconnected when I go to sleep. If I could "hear anything when disconnected" then the classification would "hearing impaired" I am not sure"why"an ongoing "debate" on deaf actuality? aside...

Another exercise in meaning of "oral deaf". Presumably referring to a "late deafened" person who can still speak however being deaf can't "understand" any spoken response. Excluding, of course using a Cochlear Implant. Whether one uses ASL/BSL et al is another matter. Whether...

Thanks Botts

What does a "deafwish" entail? aside never have encountered that term?

Whether a tattoo could be a "hearing aid or Cochlear Implant" but how many persons would surmise that "it symbolizes being an outsider"?

The other thread="big trouble etc" was locked this morning by Calvin

I guess it is "ironic" re: the above on some members commenting on Condor1970 orginal discussion re his daughter;s "response to her Cochlear Implant". Perhaps if someone in the future wants to request members opinion re: Cochlear Implants/Hearing aids reread all the comments- generated...

Some background to add to his daughter's current situation

Is there something else involved? When she disconnects her Cochlear Implant presumably she hears nothing How exactly does that square with "fitting in" with her hearing friends? Does she use ASL? Do all her friends know and use ASL as well? Was she not advised in order for her brain to...

Oh well-on astroids fell last week-maybe next year?

Isn't one of the reasons-parents consider a Cochlear Implant for their deaf babies-to "assist in learning to speak"?

maari vekki: Some thoughts based on past experience. I have had hearing aids from the middle 60s to December 2006. I became bilateral DEAF. on the 20th. I never considered wearing one then two as much of a problem. The speed of increasing hearing loss is highly specific to each person...

Given the cost factor- surgery etc. how does one know that there will no further increase in their hearing loss? What then? Another operation? As I commented #25, Jan 11/12 not much consideration for more trials.

Whether you can work in a noisy environment by adjusting the "volume control" you should discuss very specifically when your audi does the first "map". The next one you will have a better idea on what level your Implant should be "set at". It is most important for you to be very exact with...

Hi Geoff: Some thoughts from a person who has had a Cochlear Implant for just over 8 years. One can't compare C I to Hearing aids which increase the sound coming in while a CI is "imputed directly to your "nerves" which your brain accepts as sound. After getting used to so much sound now-...

Forunately in the real world I don't have deal with the "local deaf group-Toronto" as to whether my being DEAF fits with their "cultural suppositions"! This computer comments" cliques" does "suggest" very different perceptions- how "friendly local deaf really are". As stated above-why...

In deaf chat-a column on cliques in deaf groups. Some "insight"to the ongoing continuance of"reason proferred to restrict members "allowed"==deaf enough?