Cochlear recalls Nucleus CI500

posts from hell said:
Many years of programming while you were a child, I bet.

The big reason I stopped using my hearing aids: My mom said that it broke and was sent into for repairs. I did not have any hearing aids on at the time. Nobody was telling me to check it for feedback, batteries, etc etc.. They all knew it was broken. I felt free.

The minute my mom went in to pick my hearing aids up and paid the repair bill - i told her "I am not going to use it anymore."

The part I appreciated the most: She sucked it up.
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LOL. I remember every teachers keep telling me to put HAs on, speech therapy keeps telling me to put HAs on. My parents too. ahh, When i went to gallaudet and stepped my foot on the campus of gallaudet. FOr the first time i totalllllly FORGET to put HAs on. :shock: for many months later. I cleaned up my dorm in college and found my HAs somewhere in the room. I put it on HA and feel weird about it but put it back in the box. I think I haven't wore my HA for about 5 years. At the time, I was going to graduate from gallaudet. I lived off campus and all of a sudden i put HAs back because of the musics when I go to bars a lot. *shrugs* LOL
 
Frisky Feline said:
LOL. I remember every teachers keep telling me to put HAs on, speech therapy keeps telling me to put HAs on. My parents too. ahh, When i went to gallaudet and stepped my foot on the campus of gallaudet. FOr the first time i totalllllly FORGET to put HAs on. :shock: for many months later. I cleaned up my dorm in college and found my HAs somewhere in the room. I put it on HA and feel weird about it but put it back in the box. I think I haven't wore my HA for about 5 years. At the time, I was going to graduate from gallaudet. I lived off campus and all of a sudden i put HAs back because of the musics when I go to bars a lot. *shrugs* LOL
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Yeppers. At least you're putting it on on your own accord. :)
 
Cloggy said:
Ah.. you took it literally...
Read it again, and think "metafore"...

Do we expect that?
Do Chinese people expect Americans to know Chinese when they come to China?
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do you speak English and sign ASL in Norway?
 
Cloggy said:
What do you know about a raising a deaf child with CI in a hearing environment?
Please... enlighten me..

If you cant.. then you can learn a lot.... if you want to...
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There are bunch of us who with CI raising in hearing environment, not me.
 
Babyblue said:
Success stories are great.. I have no problem with it. I asked a few questions and basically gotten no answers. I just felt a twing when.. Cloggy stated that his little girl ran home for a fresh pair of batteries. Yes, she knew where to go to get them.. but the reason behind it was out of fear of not being able to hear and missing out or whatnot.
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I have a question from the part of Babyblue's post I quoted above. Is fear really the right term? Who wouldn't want to be included rather than "missing out" if they knew a way they could be included? In this case those she was with were NOT going to be using sign.
 
GrendelQ said:
Questions? Yes, I do wish there were more families or young people represented here who are at bi-bi schools, who are fully utilizing spoken and signed languages. I'd have questions for them, about their outcomes, because unfortunately, despite our success with the approach, current studies don't bear out our findings, yet I think the future will prove otherwise and I'd like to find a cohort of those who have taken or are taking a similar approach.
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why are you so fixated on studies? are we your lab rats or something?
 
Cloggy said:
She has no problem walking around deaf until other people get up in the morning. She will play alone, including singing and talking to dolls, who talk back. When others get up, she wants to hear and will put her CI on.. In the evening she will happily give the CI to us to hang the at the storage space, and will go to sleep..

A couple of days ago she ran home from school... One battery had gone dead, and she feared that the other would soon give up, so she ran home to change batteries ASAP..
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Fear is the term he used.... Fear and dread is what I felt. So Yes, it is the correct term.

Jane B. said:
I have a question from the part of Babyblue's post I quoted above. Is fear really the right term? Who wouldn't want to be included rather than "missing out" if they knew a way they could be included? In this case those she was with were NOT going to be using sign.
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Difference between now and then, I used to fear my battery to die or dread. Fear of missing about is possible, but it is still fear, regardless.


Which is why I asked Cloggy if he asked his child how she feels when her battery dies.
 
DeafCaroline said:
Exactly and hearing parents can learn a lot from them.
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I sure do! I miss many who have left too, like Contradica and Vallee, lady ... Sehkmet, I think it was, several who got their cis somewhat recently as adults, some remain like daredevel and drphil, some come and go. There's the newly adult generation, like Sheila and shushugah and bbaseballboy who got them early ... Here on ad, I've probably learned the most from them and from their posts about what it means to be a deaf CI user in a mainstream environment.
 
GrendelQ said:
I sure do! I miss many who have left too, like Contradica and Vallee, lady ... Sehkmet, I think it was, several who got their cis somewhat recently as adults, some remain like daredevel and drphil, some come and go. There's the newly adult generation, like Sheila and shoshana and bbaseballboy who got them early ... Here on ad, I've probably learned the most from them and from their posts about what it means to be a deaf CI user in a mainstream environment.
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Shoshana? I'd think twice before tossing that name out there. There are things you do not know about her.
 
posts from hell said:
Shoshana? I'd think twice before tossing that name out there. There are things you do not know about her.
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Sorry, my mistake, i meant shushugah. I've corresponded with shoshanah & realize she was implanted very late, much like Travis was. She's someone to learn from too!
 
Jiro said:
why are you so fixated on studies? are we your lab rats or something?
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Wow, more questions from you?

Answer: I'm not.

Which is it: do you want to criticize me for saying there are more deaf/hoh who use English than ASL based on the statements of deaf people without providing studies to back it up, or do you want to criticize me for being fixated on studies and data instead of basing my statements on the words of deaf people? Does it screw with your goal when I say i want to utilize both?
 
GrendelQ said:
Wow, more questions from you?

Answer: I'm not.

Which is it: do you want to criticize me for saying there are more deaf/hoh who use English than ASL based on the statements of deaf people without providing studies to back it up, or do you want to criticize me for being fixated on studies and data instead of basing my statements on the words of deaf people? Does it screw with your goal when I say i want to utilize both?
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The reason I didn't go anywhere with what you said is because it was an already designed oppressive tactic. Disgusting.

Of course, there are 36million americans with hearing loss. Of course there 500k-1m that uses sign language. Of course there are about the same hearing population that uses sign language. I am not going to be a scientist with you today.

Move on. No need for more dismissive statements.
 
posts from hell said:
The reason I didn't go anywhere with what you said is because it was an already designed oppressive tactic. Disgusting.

Of course, there are 36million americans with hearing loss. Of course there 500k-1m that uses sign language. Of course there are about the same hearing population that uses sign language. I am not going to be a scientist with you today.

Move on. No need for more dismissive statements.
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I've seen you post those numbers here many times. Apparently dc has not and believes ASL using deaf/hoh to be in the majority and most deaf/hoh are in and support bi-bi deaf schools.

I said that we know that there are more oral deaf than ASL using deaf, and more who are part of and support oral and mainstream educationsl environments, but that we buck the trend and participate in this forum because our choices align with the minority of deaf/hoh that self filter onto this board, and promote ASL.

This is not dismissive.
 
The vast majority became deaf later in life or born to hearing parents that choose to raise their child hearing.

The children that were raised orally had no access to ASL because their parents did not allow them to or did not the opportunity to. Some sought out ASL when they grew up.
 
AlleyCat said:
And I've gotten angry PMs from these parents who accuse me of trolling after I post a deaf story about myself. I've shared stories and be told to go eat green brownies. I don't think there's a sincere interest from these parents in learning much from us. :)

Edit: you may be playing Devil's Advocate, DD, but you're not exactly being productive in doing so, hm? Fanning some flames, it would seem.
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Why don't we view that comment in the context it was used, shall we?

http://www.alldeaf.com/hearing-aids-cochlear-implants/92361-ci-deaf-hearing-53.html

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GrendelQ said:
I've seen you post those numbers here many times. Apparently dc has not and believes ASL using deaf/hoh to be in the majority and most deaf/hoh are in and support bi-bi deaf schools.

I said that we know that there are more oral deaf than ASL using deaf, and more who are part of and support oral and mainstream educationsl environments, but that we buck the trend and participate in this forum because our choices align with the minority of deaf/hoh that self filter onto this board, and promote ASL.

This is not dismissive.
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Exactly. I see it as dismissive when you come in and say "Hey.. That is not true" with your agenda.

This will be my last post on this matter. Not going to waste any more time on you.
 
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