Why don't you buy or loan a book by Beverly Biderman about her being implanted late in life. She was profoundly deaf since childhood and it safe to say she had no previous hearing experience.
That would give you some insight what it is like to hear with CI - for some
CI-ed pple at least. I am sure every implantee is individual and has his own experience, but there are some commonalities.
When it comes to saying "CI users can hear" it simply means they can hear something. It does not have to be perfect hearing like a hearing person but if you never heard before a sound of -say- a boiling kettle whistling and with CI you now can- what do you call it if not hearing?
maybe you are not hearing it as well as a hearing person do but just the fact that you register this sound means you can hear some.
I am curious - have you ever HAs before? , Sweetmind? and if you did, do you feel a difference in hearing ANY sound with your HAs and without?
Besides I don't think any CI users claim to have a hearing LIKE a hearing person- they just can hear some of the sounds, some users better some users less.
Fuzzy
