What makes "sense" is your continued attempts to utilize scare tactics and misrepresentations to discredit the cochlear implant. What are these so called "additional risks", "side effects" and "negative consequences" to implanting an infant?
What really gets me is your attempt to question a parents' love for their child with their informed decision to provide their child with the benefits of a cochlear implant. Do you have any decency? Are you really that bitter and mean spirited? Do you seriously believe that parents who choose a cochlear implant for their child do not love their child for who they are?
You spew the same anti-ci rhetoric that people like Harlan Lane spewed 25 years ago. There are no "longitudal risks" but you never let the facts get in the way. Your arguments were bogus then and all the more bogus now. The studies over the years have consistently demonstrated that benefits of implanting a child as soon as possible after the onset of deafness and there is no longer any credible arguments that cochlear provide benefits.
I have met many parents who have agonized over the cochlear implant decision, who weighed the risks versus the potential rewards but no matter what there decision ultimately was, they were universal in their attempt to do what they thought was in their child's best interests and there was no question of the love they had for their children.
I think there is nothing harder in the world than raising a child, likewise there is nothing more rewarding. However, seeking to provide your child with opportunities, to give them the tools to reach their full potential does not mean you do not accept your child for "who they are".
