Those sites are authored by bunch of Deaf zealots that were against CIs from the start. They were opposed to them from the start, the moment they were invented they were out to discredit them. They were prejudiced from the start.
Anyone who has any use for a CI is organist to you. If you are such a moderate why does any info about them cause you to go right to how somrone's trying to assimilate people?
You say you want to grow the community. If people and the parents of CIs kids are going to get this gruff from deafies like yourself who would even want to bother?
Here is a thought why don't you ask some of the CI users here how they work for them.
Your just as much of an assimilationist as they are. The Deaf babies belong to you, and the hearies have no rights.an organist...
interesting..
as for your second part, because thats exactly what CI and the combined system do..the very reason d'etre of CI is to assimilate, that's why they drill them into Deaf babies the first chance they get..
an organist...
interesting..
It does not cause any harm.
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You just can't stand that those kids are not in the Deaf World with you.
It is all about the Deaf world and what some its members not being Alberto handle that the future is now the present.
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To use the Jewish analogy some people will never be able to handle Isreal's independence. Those numbers you keep referencing are only to push your anti-CI agenda.
Your just as much of an assimilationist as they are. The Deaf babies belong to you, and the hearies have no rights.
This man's invention has 30nyears going for it. It would kill you to give his the slightest bit of recognition.
Those sites are authored by bunch of Deaf zealots that were against CIs from the start. They were opposed to them from the start, the moment they were invented they were out to discredit them. They were prejudiced from the start.
Harm to the children.
From what I've been able gather, Jezie and Hoichi, you guys have gotten most of your info, and cites, from that Paper you posted about reducing harm from cochlear implants.
I wonder if you've really checked their sources. Firstly, the article was published in 2010 and most of their study sources are from the 90s. I didn't check the entire article. It became quickly clear that it's largely useless.
First we have their claim that "a significant number of these children do not communicate with ease in a speech only environment even after years of rehabilitative training". Then they have this long list of sources, with links to them. Now most of them just had the abstract, which btw is the most informationless part of the study, you have to pay to get the actual study. But they did have dates, most of which was from 1994-1997. A couple from 200 and 2001. One which couldn't even be found so it's probably been redacted. The ones that DID have the entire study available actually didn't even support their statement. So basically they're cherry picking parts of studies. Mostly the conclusion was the opposite, that the long the implant was worn, the earlier age of implantation and shockingly being in an oral only environment.
For example..... The most recent source they had cited to support that statement was a study from 2011. It was a study that only involved 10 children (yes size matters in studies) and it concluded with "More over the average language development rate of subjects in the first year of device use was equivalent to that of children with normal hearing..
Next. Right after claiming that a significant number of CI kids cannot communicate with ease they say "even those successful individuals demonstrate some cognitive difficulties". Then they cite 3 sources. The first source is about the fatigue that hard of hearing and deaf people experience trying to communicate with the hearing. Great point, BUT the study didn't even involve CI kids Hahahaha it was children with mild to moderate hearing loss.
Sorry, but these are HUGE red flags for this paper and calls into question the validity of anything they have to say.
The Paper in question, which you didn't post Jezie did but she's the one hounding C-Nice currently about harm, not you.......but still it's he one I'm sure you two have gotten a lot of your info from.thats not true, i posted more than one paper and article, im curious which ones have you read to make this claim?
which article are you referring too?
as for checking sources i most certainly do, unlike you, i even read the bibliographies, i enjoy this type of thing...
how about you?
which sources have you read?
which study are you referring too?
which paper?
The Paper in question, which you didn't post Jezie did but she's the one hounding C-Nice currently about harm, not you......
.but still it's he one I'm sure you two have gotten a lot of your info from.
http://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7517-9-16
But most of my comments have to do with their source materials, their citations, that they've cherry picked from and don't support their claims.
But seriously you want to know exactly which one?
Their first source to support their claim that even CI kids that are successful have cognitive difficulties is this......http://jslhr.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=1780935
The fact that they're using THAT study, one that doesn't even involve CIs calls into question the entire article. Lots of red flags with their source material but that one was without doubt the most questionable.
im curious
are you also claiming CI has caused no harm and do not cause any harm like cnice?
how many of the cites that i have proved to you in this and other threads have you read to make this claim?
coming from you this is a very interesting statement..
The Paper in question, which you didn't post Jezie did but she's the one hounding C-Nice currently about harm, not you.......but still it's he one I'm sure you two have gotten a lot of your info from.
http://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7517-9-16
But most of my comments have to do with their source materials, their citations, that they've cherry picked from and don't support their claims.
But seriously you want to know exactly which one? Their first source to support their claim that even CI kids that are successful have cognitive difficulties is this......http://jslhr.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=1780935
The fact that they're using THAT study, one that doesn't even involve CIs calls into question the entire article. Lots of red flags with their source material but that one was without doubt the most questionable.
No, not at all. The paper just calls into question the depths and widths if that harm, just HOW many. They skewed their info.
Like CI companies may exaggerate the benefits, those people exaggerated the harms. They both have their agendas, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
So only those who part of your culture get to have a viewpoint. How democratic?how is it.....you....a non Deaf, someone who doesn't knwo our language, nor is a part of our culture, is not one of us