5-Year-Old Wants Cochlear Implant for Christmas

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I think the girl want a second one because she is struggling with the first one. Kinda like being on hearing aid. She is hoping having a second one would take care the problem. Someone must told her she will hear better with two and she believe it. Children have done fine with only one. I don't think she would really cared and would be happy just one.
 
Well, my cousin has one deaf ear and hear very well in other ear. She never wore a hearing aid on deaf ear. She is fine so is this child if has one CI on one ear. I do not care if child's parents buy other one for him/her but instead they want state to pay for other one then it costs taxpayer about 80,000.00 for another one. It should be answer No to second CI. Parents should buy their own $$ on their child not us taxpayers thru state funds.
 
I think it's comical the way the hearing parents on this board are jumping on those who say they know 35 or fewer CI users. Personally I do not know more than 35. I mean KNOW, as in being acquainted with them, their names, personalities, etc. Seems like the hearing people know more than we deaf do.

"How many people do you know?"
"Oh, millions."

FYI, by that standard, we each know thousands and thousands of CI users.
 
Beowulf said:
I think it's comical the way the hearing parents on this board are jumping on those who say they know 35 or fewer CI users. Personally I do not know more than 35. I mean KNOW, as in being acquainted with them, their names, personalities, etc. Seems like the hearing people know more than we deaf do.

"How many people do you know?"
"Oh, millions."

FYI, by that standard, we each know thousands and thousands of CI users.
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Yea, it is weird how they seem to know and associate with more deaf people than we do.
 
AliciaM said:
sick kids is the name of the hospital shel:)

also if I may interject some input here..

actually I believe children DO know to an extent what they want...I have a 4 year old cousin and he knows what he wants and doesn't want...and i can guarantee you if he had something medical that was needed on more than one side and it was working well for him he'd for darn sure ask for another. I understand that they don't know to an extent what it does and what its for and the implications etc. But when kids are used to something and its working why wouldn't to keep up progress? Especially you're hearing? I saw a video of a 4 year old getting her hearing aids for the first time and only one was put on for the first 10 minutes and during the video she says " i love it other one and pointed to her other ear without the hearing aid" obviously this boy wants to hear out of both ears...now whether the parents said it or not or whether he heard them talking or asked him if he wanted a 2nd implant he probably DOES want another. Just because children are not adults doesn't mean they don't have brain capacity to make decisions that they think they will benefit from or not benefit from.


I don't usually like to get into these heated CI debates about children because I have my own opinions on the matter and I don't like to beat a dead horse but I have personal experience dealing with children and development including children with disabilities and ones without disabilities and I have to say MANY of them are or were very aware of what they wanted in that point of time whether it be long term or short term.
I understand that there is all this arguing about is it morally right to implant a child blah blah blah...explore other avenues...but if the child is ALREADY implanted and already ENJOYING what they hear everyday why limit the child to just one CI when they could potentially excel with 2?
I am all for exhausting other avenues before cochlear implants are visited with babies/toddlers or anyone for that matter. But if something works well why is it SO wrong for the child ( and parents) to further their development?
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There is nothing wrong with parents and child want to go further their development but do not ask us to pay for them. They pay their own.
 
deafgal001 said:
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Are you that verbal abusive in real life?
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If someone being honest and direct and pointing out the inaccuracies of another poster bothers you, then I suggest you utilize the "ignore" feature.
Rick
 
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You come up with stuffs that I dont think other other people do ..it makes me think you say these things in real life when things don't go your way.
 
shel90 said:
Yea, it is weird how they seem to know and associate with more deaf people than we do.
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Yeah. You notice Reba has not commented in these kinds of threads? I am sure she has interpreted for hundreds, if not thousands of CI users, but she isn't arrogant or stupid enough to claim to know them.
 
faire_jour said:
Ok, my daughter and I made gingerbread houses yesterday and today we are going to the aquarium. Then we'll go Christmas shopping without Daddy so we can pick his present. In the evening we are going to her favorite restaurant because she wants to see the divers. Tomorrow we will spend three ours at church and then in the afternnon we will walk to Grandma's house and spend the evening with her cousins.

Feel better? I didn't realize that you cared about the dance class she is in or the playdates she has either. Want to hear about those too? :roll:
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It is very nice to learn about your daughter besides her "famous" CIs.

You've put Miss Kat and CI together all the time and interject Miss Kat and her CIs in almost anything CI related. :roll:
 
rick48 said:
If someone being honest and direct and pointing out the inaccuracies of another poster bothers you, then I suggest you utilize the "ignore" feature.
Rick
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Please practise what you preach, kind sir.

You should utilize the ignore button on both jillio and deafdyke because your diatribe towards them requires an apology.
 
AliciaM said:
because it's a sad fact that even in kindergarten children see that they are different sometimes from other ppl regardless of what disability they have...so maybe this kid knows that you are spose to have two working ears and he only has one right now...i don't think it's wrong for him to want another one ..my two cents and opinion
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Hey I was the only deaf in kindergarten who wore bodyworn FM ....It was the fact I was different, period. I do not think kids have that thought process because they do not know how well people can hear if they been deaf most of their life ( that they suppose to have two working ears. As far as they are concern, they have ears like everyone else) It's usually the oppoosite, they don't want to wear something that make them difference unless they are in a classroom of kids with two CIs. I am speaking from my own experience as I remember vividly my kindergarten year as the only deaf child.





It's the parents.
 
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rick48 said:
Only 35!!!!

This is the much ballyhooed "experience" that you have been touting for years. 35!!! That's all. That's it? That's your big "experience' You have got to be kidding us. What a joke. I have had more than 35 people with cochlear implants just in my house alone this year.

I always knew you were full of it, just didn't realize how truly out of it you really are.

BTW you have really showed your true colors today regarding cochlear implants.

ROTFLMAO!!!
Rick
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Arent the cretin arent you.... I don't even personally know 35 people with CI's. Yet, I am around them ALL the times.. I've been in a room with 150+ people with CI's before but I don't know them.

Jillio might had some sessions with hundreds of users - but she personally knows 35.

lol, now whos the fool?
 
rick48 said:
If someone being honest and direct and pointing out the inaccuracies of another poster bothers you, then I suggest you utilize the "ignore" feature.
Rick
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That wasn't the point. Theres a line between being proper and a dick. However with you, the line is way over to the shallow left.

There is a reason you're all bothered and continue posting/defending with that method in here - even after your little one is all grown up.. I wonder what that is.
 
Beowulf said:
I think it's comical the way the hearing parents on this board are jumping on those who say they know 35 or fewer CI users. Personally I do not know more than 35. I mean KNOW, as in being acquainted with them, their names, personalities, etc. Seems like the hearing people know more than we deaf do.

"How many people do you know?"
"Oh, millions."

FYI, by that standard, we each know thousands and thousands of CI users.
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Beowulf, the difference is that you don't insist that hearing parents here only know their own child's experience and that you know better because of your exp. with many, many CI children. That's what Jillio has done, and why many of us who know hundreds, maybe thousands of CI children are astounded to find that pool of knowledge she claims is so limited and non-representative (our children are in school and programs with others with CIs, attend the same conferences and camps, we have often interviewed many of them prior to getting CIs, we then keep in touch, we meet new kids with CIs at conventions and events, at mappings, and build those relationships online and off -- community is important). It is only because she has claimed greater knowledge based on experience with CI kids that we are surprised to find that she has so little compared even with us, as individuals.
 
GrendelQ said:
Beowulf, the difference is that you don't insist that hearing parents here only know their own child's experience and that you know better because of your exp. with many, many CI children. That's what Jillio has done, and why many of us who know hundreds, maybe thousands of CI children are astounded to find that pool of knowledge she claims is so limited and non-representative (our children are in school and programs with others with CIs, attend the same conferences and camps, we have often interviewed many of them prior to getting CIs, we then keep in touch, we meet new kids with CIs at conventions and events, at mappings, and build those relationships online and off -- community is important). It is only because she has claimed greater knowledge based on experience with CI kids that we are surprised to find that she has so little compared even with us, as individuals.
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So you personally know hundreds and invite them all to your place?
 
GrendelQ said:
Beowulf, the difference is that you don't insist that hearing parents here only know their own child's experience and that you know better because of your exp. with many, many CI children. That's what Jillio has done, and why many of us who know hundreds, maybe thousands of CI children are astounded to find that pool of knowledge she claims is so limited and non-representative (our children are in school and programs with others with CIs, attend the same conferences and camps, we have often interviewed many of them prior to getting CIs, we then keep in touch, we meet new kids with CIs at conventions and events, at mappings, and build those relationships online and off -- community is important). It is only because she has claimed greater knowledge based on experience with CI kids that we are surprised to find that she has so little compared even with us, as individuals.
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Showcased CI kids. Do you believe everything they say? I personally know of a few CI users who admit that they lie to keep up the front. It is weird, but they do. It sounds like the CI kids are paraded in front of audiences and are afraid to tell the truth. Take them aside and TALK WITH THEM! :roll:
 
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