5-Year-Old Wants Cochlear Implant for Christmas

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faire_jour said:
Over and over and over in that thread.
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:lol:

You're looking for a fight because you couldn't find anyone to agree with you in that thread. Not rising to it.

In that thread, we all were stipulating to the possibility that the CI was hurting. Whether it was volume, the mapping, the magnet, or processor. Nobody knew if it was a hurt issue or a behavorial issue.

I suggest you go back and re-read.

Then, post your comments there. You don't need to continue your fight in an entirely separate thread.
 
AlleyCat said:
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You're looking for a fight because you couldn't find anyone to agree with you in that thread. Not rising to it.

In that thread, we all were stipulating to the possibility that the CI was hurting. Whether it was volume, the mapping, the magnet, or processor. Nobody knew if it was a hurt issue or a behavorial issue.

I suggest you go back and re-read.

Then, post your comments there. You don't need to continue your fight in an entirely separate thread.
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In that thread, every time we responded, we said that you MUST make sure that the child is NOT in pain and appropriately MAPed, it was said 100% of the time.
 
him wanting a second CI (and parents saying no to CI) is not like forcing him wear a CI or anything.

If a parent want a second CI or support CI for their child, they should say so. They don't need their child to be in the spotlight.
 
faire_jour said:
And they said if it persisted, even though the MAP is great, and it doesn't hurt, the child should be allowed to choose.
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The main point of that thread was why a 3 year old was behaving the way he was. To date, we still don't know what was going on. If his CI was hurting him, or if it was behavior. You wanted to equate that to not wanting to take a bath or eat vegetables, and the like. :roll:

Anyhow, your earlier post in this thread said "Nope, we were talking about something that did NOT hurt, but they simply "didn't want"." You simply don't know that. Did the OP ever come back and tell you? No.

Move on, FJ. In this thread, we're talking about a 5 year old's rationality behind a CI. Leave the 3 YO thread out of this. Really ....................................
 
deafgal001 said:
him wanting a second CI (and parents saying no to CI) is not like making him wear a CI or anything.

If a parent want a second or support CI for their child, they should say so. They don't need their child to be in the spotlight.
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My daughter asked for her first CI at age 5 and her second at 7. She asked why she couldn't hear some things with her hearing aid, we explained that her hearing had gone down, and that her hearing aid didn't work that well anymore. We explained that there was a surgery that could help her hear more, and she said she wanted to do it.

The second one, she was becoming frustrated when we were testing just the hearing aid. She said that she couldn't hear with it. She asked if she could get another CI, so she could hear in both ears.
 
She did come back.. she says she is having it checked out by the audiologist. The point of the debate was about parents forcing the child after months and months of refusal. It wasn't really about the OP (just to make sure the OP don't think we are talking about her, but about what to do in a situation like that)
 
Implanting toddlers gives them the foundation to comprehend speech. That's why they do better if they're implanted earlier than later. You cannot say the same for kids over 8 years old. If you don't implant your deaf child and have him/her learn speech at early age, you are essentially cutting out that hearing opportunity.. for LIFE and it does NOT matter HOW you view deafness.
 
maybe one day,they may be able to fix (the atrophy issue) that so a person can be implanted any age.
 
deafgal001 said:
She did come back.. she says she is having it checked out by the audiologist. The point of the debate was about parents forcing the child after months and months of refusal. It wasn't really about the OP (just to make sure the OP don't think we are talking about her, but about what to do in a situation like that)
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Right. She's having her son checked out by the audi. Meaning she still didn't know if it was something that hurt or was a behavioral issue. FJ jumped to the conclusion that it was something like not wanting to take a bath or eat vegetables. I still stand by my statement.
 
AlleyCat said:
Right. She's having her son checked out by the audi. Meaning she still didn't know if it was something that hurt or was a behavioral issue. FJ jumped to the conclusion that it was something like not wanting to take a bath or eat vegetables. I still stand by my statement.
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Actually, it wasn't me that said that.
 
warpedpink said:
No it's not. At that age, kids parrot their parents beliefs. I'm willing to bet the parents encouraged it or talked highly about it and made the little boy think it would make them happy.
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Of course. And what is up with the "medical necessity"? CI is not medically necessary. For anyone.
 
AlleyCat said:
Right. She's having her son checked out by the audi. Meaning she still didn't know if it was something that hurt or was a behavioral issue. FJ jumped to the conclusion that it was something like not wanting to take a bath or eat vegetables. I still stand by my statement.
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And I stand by every statement I made in that thread, as well.
 
Bottesini said:
Well, that's old enough to know what he wants.:lol:
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:laugh2: Sure it is! A friend of mine just had her six year old ask for an elf for Christmas!:lol:

(BTW: her reasoning was that "an elf can make any toy you want." Kids at that age are still very much dependent upon something called "magical thinking." Including deaf 5 year olds.)
 
jillio said:
Of course. And what is up with the "medical necessity"? CI is not medically necessary. For anyone.
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It means the kid will die from deafness so that means I will die from my deafness soon if I dont get implanted. :lol:
 
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