since we will now post studies for the next 10 pages, which is perfect here is one for the discussion.
allot interesting in this one study, and i have plenty more as you see for this discussion.
infants and Children with Hearing Loss Need Early Language Access
'Even for a child who has auditory aids (hearing aids or CI) and seems to be doing well with them,
the early learning of sign language, in particular, offers additional benefits. First, young hearing children develop language through not only auditory but visual cues; the same is true for young deaf children. Developmental neuroscience research indicates that rapid synaptic formation for lower-order somatosensory and visual cortices, which happens during the first four months and begins to level off after eight months, paves the way for higher order association cortices.
39 Deaf infants should benefit from early exposure to sign language, since the strengthening of sensorimotor pathways involved in the development of sign language (that is, forming linguistic hand shapes and movements to convey meanings of words or sentences) may facilitate early development of spatial attention and receptive understanding of the communication modality'
then we have this pay attention its important..
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Speech alone, however, is not sufficient language input for a deaf child. Although CI is available for children who have bilateral severe to profound hearing loss that is unresponsive to amplification, and it typically shows strong success with children implanted before 18 months,
52 individual variation is pervasive.
53 For instance, research reports that successful CI outcomes best correlate with higher socioeconomic status and parental speech characteristics, specifically mean-length of utterance.
54 In contrast, a
persistent 21 percent of implanted children receive no linguistic benefits from CI (instead, they perceive only noise).
55 For the 79 percent of implanted children who range from receiving minimal to substantial linguistic input from CI (
that is, from being able to recognize alarm bells and fire engine sirens but not speech sounds, to being able to use the telephone),
the device still neither restores nor effects normal hearing. Even a skilled recipient of CI receives no benefit when an implant malfunctions or when an external apparatus must be removed, such as for sports events or sleeping (which can be interrupted by an emergency that requires communication). Thus, their communication abilities need to be supplemented by contextual clues and speechreading, which makes language a constant task that requires focused attention and substantial effort. All these children need, and deserve, a language that they can use with ease, just as hearing children do.
Further, there is a growing body of evidence that CI, as a technology, presents no advantage to a deaf child over a hearing aid (HA) or other form of assistance with respect to the development of cognitive abilities such as executive function. Executive function has been found to be less well developed in children with CI or HA than it is in hearing children'
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3072291/
allot in thsi paper we can and will go through i thought thought o start with these numbers.
considering Sign language denial is a standard policy of action and principle in the combined system of CI
this is why its very important for us to actually discuss this..
the above numbers for a piece of technology held as some messiah by you and others here, certainly offers some interesting thoughts..