Deaf mother can hear after ear op

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A Shropshire mother is enjoying all the sounds the rest of us take for granted thanks to a miracle operation which has restored her hearing after more than two decades in near-silence.

The rush of noise proved a lot for Joanna Brown to accustom herself to at first.

The mother-of-two, of Warwick Close, Market Drayton, who was born deaf, is getting used to noises such as birdsong and mobile phone text alerts after a successful cochlear implant.

The two to three-hour operation involved inserting the implant into the inner ear and replacing the damaged hair cells responsible for hearing, before it was connected to a speech processor worn behind the ear.

The 27-year-old had the operation at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Birmingham, as part of a study into the procedure in January and is moving closer to having her hearing restored completely after several return visits to see specialists.

She said she wished she had had the operation years ago.

From Shropshire Star
 
I HATE articles like this...it makes it sound like the hearing is the same as what a hearing person would hear! NOBODY hears like a hearing person with the device, not (usually) in amount of sound, and not in type of sound either!
All it does is make the deaf person hoh. Hard of hearing people DO hear, but not like hearing people!
 
I'm curious how much hearing did she lost as it says she was born deaf which could be around 90% of hearing lost, and yet, she is able to hear with the use of this Cochlear Implant, hmmm my doctor said that I had 90% of hearing loss ( but I wasn't born deaf, I lost my hearing at the age of 5 slowly ) yet I won't be able to hear if I decide to have a Cochlear Implant now I'm a bit confused here, maybe I should get a second opinion... :ugh:

Do you have anymore information on this Alex? I'm curious to know more about this story here....

Thanks a bunch ;)
 
my doctor said that I had 90% of hearing loss ( but I wasn't born deaf, I lost my hearing at the age of 5 slowly ) yet I won't be able to hear if I decide to have a Cochlear Implant now
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Huh? A lot of people with progressive losses have gotten CIs, and they do almost as well as late-deafened people. I know that research indicates that CIs are more effective in cases where the person had normal hearing.
 
almost forgot to add, I remember reading that kids who LOST their hearing, even if they only had a month or so of normal hearing do better with CIs then do kids who were born deaf or conceived deaf.
 
deafdyke said:
Huh? A lot of people with progressive losses have gotten CIs, and they do almost as well as late-deafened people. I know that research indicates that CIs are more effective in cases where the person had normal hearing.
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Can you please explain this a bit more clearly, what does progressive losses mean?....
 
Progressive losses mean that the hearing gets worse over an amount of time.Like someone could start out with a unilateral mild loss, and then end up with a profound loss.
 
deafdyke said:
I HATE articles like this...it makes it sound like the hearing is the same as what a hearing person would hear! NOBODY hears like a hearing person with the device, not (usually) in amount of sound, and not in type of sound either!
All it does is make the deaf person hoh. Hard of hearing people DO hear, but not like hearing people!
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what does deaf mean? Ofc, you don't hear nothing that means you are zero with all your blank sound.

And what does hoh mean? Ofc, hoh is not a hearing. Hoh is hoh with almost closer to 100% hearing. It's not the same thing as a deaf.

Hearing is very accurately with 100% perfect.
 
that article has some errors.

a cochlear implant doesnt replace the damaged hair cells....it stimulates them.

also with a CI you hear about 80% of what a normal person hears.

many people tell me that with it you hear like a robot noises. no thats not true, its very realistic. i can tell the difference between anything that makes a noise such as dropping a peice of metal to dropping plastic. i can tell between a violin and a guitar. I can hear people talking on the phone. But I cant understand the words they are saying. With a few years of speech therapy i probably can but im a very lazy person :slap:



-edit- just for the record....i was born hearing, lost my hearing at age 4 by meningitis...by age 6 my speech was similar to a 2 year old. at age 7 i got the cochlear implant. at age 8 my speech was similar to a 6 year old. by age 10 my speech was similiar to a 11 year old. never tested again after that.
 
Nope, that's not precisely accurate. Deaf does not refer to a total inabilty to hear. The gross majority of deaf people have some residual hearing.
Hoh is hoh with almost closer to 100% hearing. It's not the same thing as a deaf.
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I would say that hoh means that you can hear quite a bit of speech with hearing aids or CIs. I know that one person has said that if you can talk on the phone easily then you're hoh.

with a CI you hear about 80% of what a normal person hears.
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Well it depends. That's best case scenerio. There are people who only have access to enviromental sounds with CI. Some people do hear at that level, but for others it's all accros the board. (just as with hearing aids)
 
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^Angel^ said:
I'm curious how much hearing did she lost as it says she was born deaf which could be around 90% of hearing lost, and yet, she is able to hear with the use of this Cochlear Implant, hmmm my doctor said that I had 90% of hearing loss ( but I wasn't born deaf, I lost my hearing at the age of 5 slowly ) yet I won't be able to hear if I decide to have a Cochlear Implant now I'm a bit confused here, maybe I should get a second opinion... :ugh:

Do you have anymore information on this Alex? I'm curious to know more about this story here....

Thanks a bunch ;)
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we have cochlear implant done on two ears it works great mine was 72% went down to close to 32% after five yrs depending on programing etc.Go to bobpetersmd@aol.com you will find our profile there or go to their link .hope that helps ! if not im me if you want to?
 
Well it depends. That's best case scenerio.
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best case scenerio is actually hearing as well as a hearing person.
I have someone who works with me on the panel for the alexander graham bell, and he was tested at something like 98%
 
Born hoh...actually conceived hoh!
best case scenerio is actually hearing as well as a hearing person.
I have someone who works with me on the panel for the alexander graham bell, and he was tested at something like 98%
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Yeah, but maybe he was wicked gifted or lost his hearing....I mean research has indicated that CIs work best in people who had hearing to start with!
 
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