It is never to late to learn things even with CI.
No it's not, however the degree to which you can learn to hear, to understand thru a CI,
depends HOW OLD you were when implanted. The earlier the better. period.
Anyway, you know perfectly well there is complication in the surgery and it can make the deaf go deaf if the surgery is not successful.
First of all, I am sorry, I am confused - "the deaf go deaf"?? "complication in the surgery"???
WHAT complication? Also, I am not sure what you mean by
'deaf go deaf',
but guess you pertain to the remaining working nerves being damaged
during surgery?
oh well, in place of those last, badly working nerves (what do you hear thru them, anyway, hmmm??)
you are getting 22 electrodes that will enable you to hear close to what a hearing person hear.
How well you learn to RECOGNIZE the sounds the hearing person can do easily, depends - again -
how old you were when you were implanted.
If you get implanted
as a baby -born deaf - it is highly guaranteed you will
hear like a hearing person does,
if you -born deaf- will get implanted LATE in life - as late as past 3 years old,
the
outcome is not as successful -meaning - you may have trouble recognizing what you hear.
you even may not be successful hearing thru CI
at all - simply because of being implanted later in life.
I still remember one of the AD members who got his implant late in life and was severely disappointed. He was born deaf, implanted late.
I don't remember his username, except that he was an animal lover, a vegetarian and, I think, either Chinese or Japanese.
Fuzzy