No way it is definately not 90%. I know quite a lot of children who are deaf born to hearing parents whom do not have a ci due to ear anatomy reasons or just purely cos they dont want their child to have a ci because they think their child benefits from HA's quite well.
Cochlear Implants
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Sound or silence? Implants give deaf people option
More parents are choosing implants to help deaf children such as Drake Weland hear. But some deaf leaders say the decision is a big one and the devices are not for everyone. Drake Weland's parents are almost certain he would not want to live in silence. Drake was 11 months old when tests showed he was profoundly deaf. A doctor told his parents that an electronic implant could deliver sounds to his brain and help him learn to talk. The doctor said the devices, called cochlear implants, work best in babies - so Drake's parents had the surgery done right away. Their choice is increasingly common, especially for the 90 percent of deaf babies born to hearing parents. But the practice concerns some deaf people, who say that parents should wait until children are old enough to decide for themselves.
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Of the 28 million people worldwide who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, 300,000 are eligible for the implants, said Christin Driscoll with the National Campaign for Hearing Health in Washington, D.C.
(That means about 1% are candidates)
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The surgery is especially popular among the 90 percent of deaf children who have hearing parents -- parents who want to talk to their children, and want their children to talk to the greater world. Babies as young as 9 months old are getting cochlear implants. And this has created a deep fissure in the identity-conscious deaf community.
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(Look on Google for more sources. Also I believe over 100,000 now have CIs)
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It says that the CI is "popular" among hearing parents, but not that 90% of kids get them.
The total number of CI's is about 150,000, but only half are kids.
The total number of CI's is about 150,000, but only half are kids.
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Actually, the number is higher than that. I'm not sure what is the AB numbers, but Cochlear recently hit the 120,000th implantee milestone. So...I'm pretty sure it may be more than that.
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While this is really not true...HOWEVER...
This may make MORE sense -
90% of the CI users are born by hearing parents. That makes a big difference, and that I can see.
However, what people tend to neglect is that thousands of these people were BORN hearing, and became progressively deaf. They're NOT culturally deaf. I know three people that are not culturally deaf, yet they have CI. There's many others that I can name (I don't know them personally), that are not culturally deaf and have CI.
I bet the numbers of "culturally Deaf" CI users are MUCH lower than those who are.
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Cochlear has 3 out of 4 users. I think AB only has around 50-75,000 total. (half are children under 18)
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I had Cochlear Implant since age of four... and I'm now 22, that makes 18 years of having CI.
I only had implant replanted at age of seven because I went down on Plastic Slide and it has messed up the CI in my skull that the cochlea for the CI to connect wasn't working at all.... it took a month for the doctors and the audiologist to figure out what was wrong, why it wasn't working.
At first, I thought my batteries had just died so I went up to my mother for new batteries, and after changing it, it still didn't work. So we went through whole pack of batteries and it still didn't work.
So mom called TMOS, our audiologist that works there and set up the appointment. On the next day, I went there and they tried to reprogram it, to see if that would work. Well, nothing... I couldn't hear a thing. The magnet work, the CI work, but I couldn't hear a thing.
So after two weeks of trying to figure it out, my parents and the Audiologist call the CI Surgeon doctor at OSHU (Oregon State Hospital University) to set up appointment... went there and then went through many Xrays and so on... they finally found the problem through Xray, seeing the part of CI in my skull is broken, the reason why I couldn't hear a thing.
So the surgery was scheduled...but it was postponed due to Chicken pox that I got just few days of after finding out what was the problem. So after two whole months of not being able to hear, I was finally able to go through the surgery, and get the CI.
But there's one memory that I clearly remember. I remember Mom and Dad asking me Do I want CI. I don't have to get it if I don't want it, instead I could just learn ASL and go to Deaf state school for the deaf....But they also bribed me.... they said if I want CI, they will buy me Barbie doll house along with two new barbie dolls and barbie car. Yeah, I was bribed, I was really into barbie stuff so I did agree to getting CI...
Although I have wondered what my life would been like if I have refused, and went to Deaf state school and learned ASL, be completely in deaf culture. That I know I'll always wonder about.
But that's the story... sorry if It was long... but to the point, I had CI since age of four and only had one failure and that was due to the plastic Slide. Apparently I was the first to have the finding of the plastic slide.... the reason why we're not allowed to go down to the plastic slide... That's how the CI company found out.. I was the one that caused the finding. lol
I only had implant replanted at age of seven because I went down on Plastic Slide and it has messed up the CI in my skull that the cochlea for the CI to connect wasn't working at all.... it took a month for the doctors and the audiologist to figure out what was wrong, why it wasn't working.
At first, I thought my batteries had just died so I went up to my mother for new batteries, and after changing it, it still didn't work. So we went through whole pack of batteries and it still didn't work.
So mom called TMOS, our audiologist that works there and set up the appointment. On the next day, I went there and they tried to reprogram it, to see if that would work. Well, nothing... I couldn't hear a thing. The magnet work, the CI work, but I couldn't hear a thing.
So after two weeks of trying to figure it out, my parents and the Audiologist call the CI Surgeon doctor at OSHU (Oregon State Hospital University) to set up appointment... went there and then went through many Xrays and so on... they finally found the problem through Xray, seeing the part of CI in my skull is broken, the reason why I couldn't hear a thing.
So the surgery was scheduled...but it was postponed due to Chicken pox that I got just few days of after finding out what was the problem. So after two whole months of not being able to hear, I was finally able to go through the surgery, and get the CI.
But there's one memory that I clearly remember. I remember Mom and Dad asking me Do I want CI. I don't have to get it if I don't want it, instead I could just learn ASL and go to Deaf state school for the deaf....But they also bribed me.... they said if I want CI, they will buy me Barbie doll house along with two new barbie dolls and barbie car. Yeah, I was bribed, I was really into barbie stuff so I did agree to getting CI...
Although I have wondered what my life would been like if I have refused, and went to Deaf state school and learned ASL, be completely in deaf culture. That I know I'll always wonder about.
But that's the story... sorry if It was long... but to the point, I had CI since age of four and only had one failure and that was due to the plastic Slide. Apparently I was the first to have the finding of the plastic slide.... the reason why we're not allowed to go down to the plastic slide... That's how the CI company found out.. I was the one that caused the finding. lol