She still pretty much qualified . I remember you saying that the only part of the hearing test she had some " maybe she doesn't qualify for CI" was a closed set one with very familiar and very different words.
A sitution like that is a very legit one for " off label" implantation....and I do think that while, insurance companies will be " cracking down" on who can and can't get CI, they'll use speech perception scores, so maybe kids who don't totally fit FDA criteria may be able to benifit.
I've got to say... I do think that the screening process needs to be both strict (to avoid " gotta have the latest CI b/c I can't hear in noise/ on the phone, even though my speech scores are good otherwise) but it also needs to have some flexibilty built into it, so that if a kid has low speech perception (in all or most situtions) but has a less then profound/severe-profound loss, they should qualify.
