Can a baby learn talking when hearing through hearing aids?

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DeafCaroline said:
Did you see the first post by the OP? "I guess that what matters to me most is this: can my baby hear and gradually learn talking only with hearing aids of high quality? Or is implanting our only choice since he is too little to have acquired language skills?"

She wanted to know if babies can learn to talk with hearing aids or if CIs are her only choice.

That question had already occurred to her.
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Yes, but I was referring to the area of audition which spilled into the area of accents. Namely mine was a reference to the fact that a deaf person with CI (even hearing aids) can and have picked up their regional accent. I cited three cases. Whether they have a "deaf voice" is not the issue. Just pointing out the fact todays technology is so nuanced that when applied early in their childhood while growing up speaking English have a German accent, British accent, Australian accent, or an American accent, even a southern accent in the case of FJ's video example of two girls playing with each other.
 
kokonut said:
Yes, but I was referring to the area of audition which spilled into the area of accents. Namely mine was a reference to the fact that a deaf person with CI (even hearing aids) can and have picked up their regional accent. I cited three cases. Whether they have a "deaf voice" is not the issue. Just pointing out the fact todays technology is so nuanced that when applied early in their childhood while growing up speaking English have a German accent, British accent, Australian accent, or an American accent, even a southern accent in the case of FJ's video example of two girls playing with each other.
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And that has virtually nothing to do with what the OP was asking.

How do you know how nuanced technology is? You don't have a CI. You are still using HAs and simply repeating what some hearie tells you about technology because you are so desperate to align yourself with the hearing.
 
Sunshine said:
What? Really?
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Yup. All the "deaf" people are that way because they are a product of a broken system. They see the, in their perspective, the "Deaf" and go "sorry, my signing is not good", "sorry, I raise oral".. Things like that.

They should never say sorry to another Deaf person. Why? Why are they feeling powerless to another Deaf person?

Using the deaf/Deaf only causes division, hence I don't believe in using it.

Like I said, another thread for this.
 
AlleyCat said:
And who cares at this point about the videos and trying to prove a point about quality of speech. This got old.
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Again, not about quality of speech but about CI technology that would allow CIers the nuanced ability to pick up their surrounding regional accent while growing up. That's an unmistakable fact. But to say that all will have that regional accent? No. There are factors involved to make that happen.
 
kokonut said:
Again, not about quality of speech but about CI technology that would allow CIers the nuanced ability to pick up their surrounding regional accent while growing up. That's an unmistakable fact. But to say that all will have that regional accent? No. There are factors involved to make that happen.
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This thread is not about CI. And again, what do you know about CI? You don't have one. You are relying on what hearing people are telling you about CI.

So, tell us, oh wise one, what exactly are those factors?
 
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