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I think for someone who were able to hear well, suddenly found themselves having a loss of hearing. If there was something to be able to bring it back, they would do it. That was the case for me. I love music. I love listening to Reba McEntire. However, I started to lose my remaining hearing...

:-) The same naughty puppy chewed through the wire of my Xbox 360 headset. grr...I can hear people, but I cannot use the microphone. That sucks.

Again - it is all on personal preference. I just prefer not to hear all the extra sounds on top of sounds that I WANT to hear. Ironically, for my music program, if I use it as "everyday", I will hear all the extra sounds and stuff because it's tuned to the point where I have a much richer...

Find a audiogram, and you'll see that an area in sorta of a shape of a banana where ALL the speech sounds are. Someone who can hear above - mostly in the 20db and 10db in the highs are capable of hearing all sounds from speech. However, there is a difference between hearing a speech sound...

First, it's not that I want to "hear worse". I just do not want to hear all the EXTRA crap that I do not need to hear that hearing people can hear. At 10db - I was able to hear the buzzing of the lightbulbs. I was able to hear the electric-static sounds coming from plugs. I was able to hear the...

I agree. I find it too easy to lipread while I'm learning to hear. Since I already have the skills, it kind of takes over the fact that I need to listen. Lipreading DOES interfere when I'm trying to listen. Ironically, my lipreading skills has gotten worse within the last couple months because...

I think she has the right to vote...she *knows* her daughter is very happy with her CI. She has repeatedly said how much better her daughter hears, how good her daughter is doing with the CI, etc etc. I would think that if faire-jour is "not sure" how her daughter feel about it, she would know...

I agree. Many people who want to get the CI has the high expectation that they will hear everything on the first day. The speech discrimination is 100%, etc...after they realize how "horrible" it sounds...even if it takes a couple months (it took me about 8 months post op to find out that one of...

My puppy just chewed my CI controller. Still works, still fine, just a couple teeth marks. When I was young, I had no problem leaving the HAs on while at school, but as soon as my mom picks me up, I would throw them down the stairs. Mom and I were in the lower class, so she cannot really...

I confessed to my fiance about it..ironically a week before he has told me not to leave my CI on the table...I'm eating my words. He was okay with it and wasn't as angry as I thought he'll be. He just kind of laughed and I asked him to help me be sure that anything that is within Stardust's...

UGH...stupid me. I left my CI on the table, my new puppy does not normally get up there, but today she go up there and grabbed my CI. It's NOT badly damaged at all. The coil/battery is fine. The control has some bite marks. It still works. Luckily, it's just the controller, but still. I...

Yes, it will benefit them if they had experience with hearing sounds prior. I'm talking about those who had ears that were never exposed to sound. My right was at 80db or 70db as a child, then as I became an adult it dropped to 88db. Within a few years, it dropped to 94db in the low, and as...

I totally agree that it was just too much to expect a child to be successful with that. At my school, it depends on invididual basis. If a child has the ability to do so like you said, they will get some sort of AVT included with their speech classes, others don't. Either because they're...

Interesting because this is how I was able to listen/hear when I was younger. That's why I was asking whether I had "speech" classes, or speech/AVT combo. I learned how to speak well and not so nasally because of this, but I also was able to pick up sounds and hear sounds when someone...

Wait until you guys have kids...then you'll look back and say, "damn, i'm just like my mother. " :-)

I totally agree. I went to a CI audiologist. Within 5 minutes of speaking with her, she says I automatically qualified...JUST BECAUSE I CAN SPEAK WELL. WTF? This was BEFORE I was even tested! I had to seek out another audiologist because I had NO clue what CI is about, and I wanted to be SURE...

I had AVT when I was a child until middle school...unless if it's different to what AVT is actually all about. I basically had speech classes. I learned how to speak properly, I learned how to listen to certain sounds (ahh, oooh, eee), etc. Not every child goes through that. Only certain...

Okay, I'm looking forward to see if you can hear birds, crickets, leaves rustling, certain dog's bark, cats mewing...those are environmental sounds. So, if you can hear them, you won't hear "better" than I can, you will be hearing the same. Are you serious? I have NEVER heard of ANYONE with...

My scores: Male, Normal speed, no noise - 98% I only got one wrong...between Joan and John Female, Normal speed, some noise - 93% got the names John and Joan mixed and Has/had. The numbers and object are easy for me to understand. Mind you - I also watch a lot of BBC America, so I've gotten...

Actually, not so odd...Med-El is very popular in Europe, so they probably are used to hearing "their" accents. This is from Med-El's site. The one from Advance Bionics is American version, so Hear Again and I and other Americans will have a bit of an easier time hearing that one. So I...