CI candidacy....

LTHFAdvocate said:
You don't need to be categorized as profoundly deaf any more to be a CI candidate under the FDA system. 60 % word recognition under best aided conditions combined with the right audiogram is generally sufficient. What constitutes the right audiogram depends on age. For adults, you can have residual low frequency hearing as high as 50 dB, and as long as your word recognition is 60 % or less, you qualify. This happens sometimes because 50 dB hearing at 250 dB does very little to help you with understanding speech.

The FDA criteria includes nothing about unaided word recognition, FYI. It just isn't a consideration. Most clinics abide by FDA criteria because insurers don't pay when they perform a service that is outside of the FDA criteria.

Sheri
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:hmm: that's encouraging me..I may think of starting my own CI journey soon .. we'll see :h5:
 
deafdyke said:
*shrugs* I was just basing that on something the mom of a deaf kid over at DumbNotes, said. Her son could hear 60%ish with HAs, but was classified as profoundly deaf (and got implanted) b/c without aids he only could hear 10%.
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Well from experience hearing around 90% is much better then hearing 69% in a nice quite sound booth with no noise. Of course when more real life situations are introduced the 69% droppeed to 10 for me so I did end up qualifying through my insurance. So I can see how a boy who hears 60% could qualify. And I hope he does well with the implant. :)
 
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