Even so, if you read any threads of posts made by CI users and their experiences (namely Contradica, Lucia, Lotte and others who'se name escapes me at the moment) - it's clear their hearing level increased greatly after being implanted with CI. Almost invariably everyone can hear more than before with their HAs.
Of course there are some unfortunate exceptions like PuyoPiyo, or Smithr, but that's not the CI's fault that the desired hearing level wasn't achieved.
Or maybe the better level of hearing WAS achieved, but comprehension is another story, and some implantees reqqire more work than other.
Usually those with decent spoken language comprehesion do well quite quickly after implantation. This is particularly true for late deafened.
I am pretty sure if you can understand speech now, you would understand even better with CI, But that's my opinion.
Fuzzy
