You know what - I came to the conclusion that even if the child would hear relatively well with HA - a child with moderate sensori neural loss - it will still receive even more benefits with CI.
I use HA all my life and decided I wouldn't mind to have been implanted right away back then instead of all those unsatisfactory years with HA.
HAs - whatever way you look at it- it's just a sound amplifier. It does not enable to hear sounds that can not be hear. It only amplifies what can be hear.
Even if the child seem to be hearing with sich HA -from my own memory I know it's still struggling to hear. So what if I could put together the whole sentence because I understood 3 words out of 5? it was torture.
it always was, is, and always will be. I would much rather understand everything or at least 90%.
And since we are talking about "how well the kids hear with HA" - it's obvious not well enough. Bad enough to consider CI, anyway.
Fuzzy
