krazykatkitty
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How old are you when you got diagnosis Deaf?
Since I was 4 months old. My parents saw that I never responded to any sounds so they had me get an ABI which confirmed I was deaf. A month after being fitted with high power analogs, I had access to amplified sounds.
How long have ABR's been around?
First phonak box at 2 years old or thereabouts. this was in the late 70's/early 80's
I was 22 at the time, and it was a total shock. Found out while trying to join the military. Since then my hearing has slow gotten worse with each hearing test.
I don't consider myself to be "big D" Deaf since I grew up with hearing most of my life. That being said, I became severely-profoundly deaf at age 24. My hearing loss was diagnosed at
age 3 and was mild at the time. From that point on, it progressed to severe-profound by age 24. Now that I have CIs, I am 100% deaf without them.
"Big D" normally in New Zealand people use the big D for Deaf but The word Deaf spelt with a capital D is a noun that denotes a culture and a community. The use of sign language as one’s first language is the main characteristic of people who identify with this culture and community.
With a small d, deaf, is an adjective which refers simply to hearing loss - e.g. deaf children means children with impaired hearing who may not yet have had contact with the Deaf community. which is found from NZSL Week
A Lots of people didnt aware about the "big D" in NZ :O I hope it something new and interesting for you :P
Since I was 4 months old. My parents saw that I never responded to any sounds so they had me get an ABI which confirmed I was deaf. A month after being fitted with high power analogs, I had access to amplified sounds.
What year did you recieve the ABI? Because ABI is kinda very new right now, it's only have just come out in maybe the last 5 years or so, maybe even less.
Or are you talking about ABR's?
ABI = Auditory Brainstem Implant
ABR= Auditory Brainstem Response
I think he's referring to an ABR. If deafdude had an ABI, he wouldn't be able to use hearing aids.
That's what I thought.
And the ABI surgery is so much more complicated than the CI surgery, and with poorer results than the CI. I would never go for it in my current lifetime and even the next lifetime. If any surgeons has to touch my brain to do it, I would never go for it, while during the CI surgery your brain is never touched. :Ohno:
for that explanation.
Here in the U.S., Deaf also means someone who is a part of Deaf culture while deaf means someone who is not.
I've been a part of my Deaf and deafblind communities since 1995, but I still do not consider myself as Deaf since I grew up orally and could hear well most of my life. I also do not rely on tactile sign the way I did pre-CI.
I probably could be considered Deaf, but I just don't view myself as such for the reasons I've mentioned.
Yeah I bet that in every countries have a different way and culture which is very interesting.. I will be going to 2009 Taipei Deaflympics and I will meet many Deaf people from aorund the world