Re: Wow, a lot comment on this tread at least week.
Originally posted by ideafspy
I have seen several people with cochlear implant were my enemy. Because he or she believes that all Deaf should get cochlear implant at no matter what. I believe there should be a matter, because the parent is risk put the cochlear implant their children. Their question is, “Is the cochlear implant will work for my child and hear the noisy?”
How many people with Cochlear implants have you met in your entire life. How many people out of those considered themselves as part of the hype that all deaf people should get cochlear implants?
I've heard many hearing parents asking me for how to make the decision if their deaf child should wear cochlear implant. I always tell them, "What is the point of them hearing if I could do fine with sign langauge, reading lips, and speech skills without my Cochlear Implant."
What you have said has made it seem like you built a corral and gathered up all the deaf people with CI into a group labeled as some kind of cult believing that every deaf people would benefit from wearing cochlear implants. I know of at least 5 other deaf people who wears cochlear implant. I have never heard them saying that all deaf people should absolutly wear cochlear implants. I have only heard them saying that Cochlear Implant should be thought about with a chance.
Parents just want their children to communicate with the parents. They want to share the love through the language. Many of parents believe that you have to hear to do all this above. I've educated several hearing parents that cochlear implant is not the only answer to what those parents want. Some of them even chose the cochlear implant routinue. Some of them even bought some sign language books and hung around with me and several other deaf friends.
Cochlear implant doesn’t go to your brain, it went to the cochlea. The cochlea looks like snail between the hear drum and brain. I don’t see anything wrong for children get cochlear implant as current. Since the technology improved daily in our life, help the people better their life. Same idea of “implant”: glasses, heart patch, knee, shoulder, and many parts on the body needed be fixed. It’s made no different about cochlear implant. People have to remember that implant doesn’t always cure the people. Implant is like second hand to support live better. I have seen the gross to me, implant on throat to speak better or can talk. IMPLANT ON THROAT, that causes me against to that one. I have to remember myself; the implant is helping us to able do for all of us.
Did you know that hearing impairment is the only disability that has created its own array of culture? The Deaf culture.
Too many deaf people believes that deaf children with cochlear implants would appear to make the Deaf culture to fade away. It's just a propaganda created by several Prorated Deaf adults.
It wouldn't happen anyways. Look what happened to the Black community. We got several types of black cultures. I haven't heard them bitching about their own differences. Now I hear it here about the deaf culture. I do not want this to happen at all. It's really stupid to use Cochlear as an excuse to hold against the hearing people of how they are trying to wipe out the Deaf culture.
Just educate them. That's the power of freedom in USA.
I was raised in few different places: oral, sign language, speech practice, hearing aids, FM systems, SEE, PSE, and ASL (Glad I didn’t learn the CUE SIGN—looks boring!). I went the public school for whole life as mainstream and went to deaf school for short period due no interpreter or doesn’t have my benefit believe as similar their believes. I am not interesting that anyone insult or offensive me about the deaf language, oral language, and profoundness deaf. I was learned the cochlear implant is bad for me. I grew up that I against cochlear implant for almost 18 years.
You got plenty of experience to back up what you got to say. You might got different experiences than the rest of us but that don't always make you right. If you are willing to learn from the other people's experiences, you would someday be a good old man full of wise. That's a good thing.
You might have learned how to hate CI through what you have heard about the Deaf world's propaganda. Perhaps if you had tried to go to one of those preschool classes for the hearing impaired. Help out some..and you'll be approached by some desperate hearing parents who are trying to seek the knowledge on deaf childrens and how they could cope with the rest of the real world. Perhaps you could use your experiences to help those desperate parents. Your Cochlear Implant rage will probably prevent you from being open minded and trying to understand what are those parents wantings.
Until my hearing aids turn down and increase more profound. Right now, I realized that hearing aids no longer support with my cochlear due the cells hair dying? What the caused? I don’t have time to research my both ears. I am getting one, the cochlear implant, due my family doesn’t sign. I am raising oral at home and the hearing people.
Based on what I understand about Cochlear Implant. It is designed to take over what those little hairs on the cochlear is designed to do. I am not sure but I think I am confused on what you are saying. Are you saying that you want to get cochlear implant because your family doesn't sign? Why do that if your family won't sign? Why not teach them? Sure, several of my family members are too stubborn to realize that sign language is important for me. They just don't think out for me. Perhaps yours are like that?
I signs at the public school, deaf socialization and events. I always asked myself, “Will I lost some sign?” No, because I sign at school and deaf friends and talk with voice at public. It’s doesn’t destroy the Deaf culture, because Deaf culture is too strong for this. Beside that one, I raised in Deaf/Hearing that doesn’t mean HOH. I just can’t reject both and says “I didn’t do it.” It is so vain for me says that. I am here, living, and several reasons I am here. If one of person did not like me. Try to pull my hearts out with the hand and I will not live again.
You're right. Because you were raised orally and used some type of education that many of Deaf people didn't have the benefits to have, doesn't make you any outsider of the Deaf culture. Hell, just go to a deaf socializing area...if you can fit in and just do fine on your own, you're part of the deaf culture.
Try going somewhere like India and see if you can accept it when a man gets a cow urine and splash it on his face. If you can't, you're not experiencing their culture...you're just having a culture shock. No question about it. You already are in the Deaf culture regardless of your background or what you are. You possess the skills to do just fine in the Deaf culture.
The only thing I don’t like the several Deaf person signs, “That’s Deaf way.” I know that not deaf way to scream all the time. I mean scream for 24 hours, I told them that not true, but they do scream to get attention. I cannot remember what I am says. The culture means that what we doing for the living: sign, communicate, and stuff. Not in physical fight,
That's part of the propaganda caused by the Deaf adults. Teenagers are like that too. They want to "convert" you from "deaf outsider" to one of them. They want all the credits for that.
I meet the several deaf, oral, and cochlear implant people with poor to great levels about the education or world. They told me in different answer for themselves, “I wish that I am hearing and will go school better program.”, “People made fun of my voice, wish my parent never put me this place first place.” and “My cochlear implanted was not working on me anymore. Wish never that happen.” It is interesting for me to see they say front different community.
Well, if you look at this. Why does some deaf children like to go to one of the state's deaf schools? Socializing of course. They never have the intelligence levels to decide if education is more important. There's some deaf adults who even claim that they wish they could go to public schools too. Some of them even blame their own parents for deserting their children to a state school and rarely visiting them at school. That's because of uneducated parents. That's why I enjoy trying to work hard to help some parents understand how important their decisions would be because of their greatest impacts on their children. It will stick with those children for the rest of their lives. PERIOD.
Of course, I said that I got Cochlear Implant and it never worked with me. That is because I never had the moviations to regain my hearings. My parents did try hard to make me wear my cochlear implant. Only reason that I wish that I didn't get cochlear implant was because of their hopes. They were even proverty stricken at that time. Right now, I am 23 yrs old and even try to think of a great way to pay back both of my parents for what they did for me ever since I was born. Not because of their costs of the cochlear implant but because of their costs of efforts to help me fit in the "real world."
This post would be too long so I'll continue in the next post.
Is it great that MOST deaf children graduated from high school with 4th/5th grade level reading/writing skills? :roll:
