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That would be the hard part, I'm sure.
I have a question: parents of babies implanted with CIs say it's because they want to maximise the use of the auditory nerve. Hearing aids don't stimulate the auditory nerve?
Ok, I am wondering why parents feel it's so urgent to implant their babies if hearing aids can do the same job of stimulating the auditory nerve. I mean, why not use hearing aids and wait till the kid is older before doing CI?
I do understand that hearing aids don't work for all deaf people. I am just speaking about parents whose babies CAN get sound from hearing aids but opt for the CI anyway.
Sure they do. They just don't bypass the cochlea.
but a baby can't speak so how can they determine it's not able to process language?
I can only imagine that it's a very tough decision. If babies get sound from HAs but not enough to process language, the parents probably want to move to CIs more rapidly.
OK. I'm not arguing for it or against it; just trying to guess what those parents might be thinking and feeling.
ok...which brings me back to my original question: if parents use the argument that CIs implantation in babies is crucial for stimulating the auditory nerve, why aren't they're satisfied that hearing aids do the same?
Again, i am referring to babies who can get sound from hearing aids.
I have a question: parents of babies implanted with CIs say it's because they want to maximise the use of the auditory nerve. Hearing aids don't stimulate the auditory nerve?
Ok, I am wondering why parents feel it's so urgent to implant their babies if hearing aids can do the same job of stimulating the auditory nerve. I mean, why not use hearing aids and wait till the kid is older before doing CI?
I do understand that hearing aids don't work for all deaf people. I am just speaking about parents whose babies CAN get sound from hearing aids but opt for the CI anyway.
"Sufficient" is extremely subjective. Who determines what is "sufficient" sound reception? There are those who are profoundly deaf who hear nothing in the speech ranges on their audiograms, or maybe a minimal, and yet, they are able to discriminate and produce speech very well. In reverse, there are those with severe losses that have quite a bit of residual hearing in the speech ranges and can discriminate or produce almost no speech.
We also need to keep in mind that those guidelines are just that. A guideline. Age requirements and aided requirements are bypassed on a constant basis.
When I was little, I was dx'd with a severe to profound loss but I have never been able to do a good job of discrimating speech sounds though I did learn to speak well.
My loss is in the profound range now. I don't know what caused my hearing to go down - only that I started having problems with bad ringing in my ear when I was 19.
Yeah. I hear absolutely nothing without my hearing aids. Zilch. But with them, I can discern speech, tone, influctuation, accents, etc. But obviously it takes time before one is able to do that so how can one determine a baby will not be able to discern speech at all even with hearing aids?
Yeah. I hear absolutely nothing without my hearing aids. Zilch. But with them, I can discern speech, tone, influctuation, accents, etc. But obviously it takes time before one is able to do that so how can one determine a baby will not be able to discern speech at all even with hearing aids?
There is a combination of tests that can be conducted -- including a non-behavioral test on a sleeping or sedated child that measures brainstem response to auditory stimulation -- which can determine if the hearing loss is such that signals at the level of sounds that comprise spoken language sounds don't even reach the processing center. Regardless of whether a child's brain has the processing capability to discriminate and recognize tone, inflection, etc., if the sounds can't be accessed to begin with, no processing can happen.