F1885> The 50% is the actual experience at Sunnybrook/Toronto over a 18 year period. As for SpeechReading re regular phones seems remote to me. I had my TTY phone since Jan/92 and became bilateral deaf in Dec/06.
I use the VCO feature to this day accessing 711.
I did discuss not being able to use my Cochlear Implant-telephone- with the audi there- just accept not being able -a somewhat "minor matter" as I had lots prior experience in using my TTY
My experience just shows not everything is "fixed with a Cochlear Implant". To me just the human variability.-brain's neuroplassity in action.
Implanted Sunnybrook/Toronto Advanced Bionics-Harmony activated Aug/07
