Docs want to force CI on her! She benefits great from HA!

They are starting from scratch when talking about interpreting the signal from a CI.
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That's very true. The sound from a CI is different from "regular hearing" or hearing aid hearing..........but on the other hand the hearing from a hearing aid would give them more of a vague idea of what sounds were. They have a base for processing sound, whereas someone with no hearing with aids wouldn't.
The writer never speaks to speech perception, only to DB, but if her daughter is a CI candidate, she obviously scores within a certain range, regardless of tones heard in the booth.
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Good point. I know someone who only has a moderate loss, but her speech perception is very low. On the other hand, with the way that some doctors and audis are pushing it, it wouldn't suprise me if her daughter's speech perception was bad without aids, but decent with hearing aids. I mean.....I was at an oral deaf exhibit hall this past week. One of their criteria was " does your kid have trouble hearing in noise? " Ummmm almost everyone (including unilateral losses) have trouble hearing in noise.
 
I wouldn't say it's Deaf or anti-CI propaganda. Even in the hearing population, anything that is near the head is considered as "brain surgery" for some reason.
 
souggy said:
I wouldn't say it's Deaf or anti-CI propaganda. Even in the hearing population, anything that is near the head is considered as "brain surgery" for some reason.
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Never thought of it that way..interesting.
 
souggy said:
Yeah, not sure if it's a gross overgeneralization or an over-reaction.

I remember when I got knee surgery, one of my aunts were alll "he's going to get an amputation!"
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So, nobody can accuse people of being "D"eaf or anti-CI if they say CI surgery is brain surgery. :D
 
souggy said:
I wouldn't say it's Deaf or anti-CI propaganda. Even in the hearing population, anything that is near the head is considered as "brain surgery" for some reason.
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I agree. It's the exact same thing I run into with people who have normal stomach viruses, indigestion, morning sickness, or the flu saying they have 'food poisoning.' Honestly? Food poisoning is serious! Just because you drank half a keg of beer on an empty stomach, ate three pounds of taco bell at 4 in the morning, and spent the next morning ill in the bathroom DOES NOT mean you got food poisoning.
 
Of course there is always going to be some portion of the population who are too stupid or ignorant that they would label anything having to do with the head as brain surgery, however the decades long references to cochlear implants as brain surgery by those who oppose cochlear implants are too numerous to awkwardly dismiss as being uninformed. Their specific reference to brain surgery is by design not happenstance.

This is a scare tactic that has been used over and over again and thankfully unsuccessfully.
 
souggy said:
I wouldn't say it's Deaf or anti-CI propaganda. Even in the hearing population, anything that is near the head is considered as "brain surgery" for some reason.
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So I guess pulling out widsom teeth is brain surgery?
 
shel90 said:
So, nobody can accuse people of being "D"eaf or anti-CI if they say CI surgery is brain surgery. :D
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:confused: They are wrong!!! CI is not on brain surgery! They are so ridiculous! I told to someone early. I said CI is not surgery on brain. CI's surgery behind on the ear. The deaf people with anti-CI are propaganda. They didn't research about CI operation enough.
 
Pinky said:
:confused: They are wrong!!! CI is not on brain surgery! They are so ridiculous! I told to someone early. I said CI is not surgery on brain. CI's surgery behind on the ear. The deaf people with anti-CI are propaganda. They didn't research about CI operation enough.
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Note the smiley face.

She wasn't being serious.
 
Bottesini said:
Are you serious???
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About that comment, I was being sarcastic and silly so Souggy was right about me being silly. Of course, people will still continue to accuse people who call CI surgery brian surgery of being anti-CI or whatever.
 
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