Gone with the old, here comes with the new...

faire_jour said:
Yes, without the CI she had gained 3 words in 5 years. Once she got the implant she gained 3 1/2 years worth of language in 18 months. The only change was her ability to access hearing through her device.
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I am happy she is accomplishing to your expectations. I just hope she wont be taught that her accomplishments are due to her CI not due to her own personal desire. Just watch out for those who may tell her that she is successful all because of her CI and then she could start associating her CI to her success and lose the fact that it is HER own self who is the reason for the success.

Hope that makes sense? Just trying to help out.
 
Much of my accomplishments at Miss Kat's age were due to my getting HAs (CI's didn't exist then.) It helped me to understand/learn speech. I think Miss Kat is too young at this point to fully comprehend the idea of "personal desire to accomplish"; I would bet most (perhaps not all, I will give you that) of her accomplishments are due to her CIs. FJ pointed out the difference of before-and-after.
 
AlleyCat said:
Much of my accomplishments at Miss Kat's age were due to my getting HAs (CI's didn't exist then.) It helped me to understand/learn speech. I think Miss Kat is too young at this point to fully comprehend the idea of "personal desire to accomplish"; I would bet most (perhaps not all, I will give you that) of her accomplishments are due to her CIs. FJ pointed out the difference of before-and-after.[/QUOTE

I belive that my own accomplishments were due to my desire and pasison to learn not because of my HAs.

I guess we just have different views of ourselves. I hated it when people measured my accomplishments because of my HAs because it lead me to feeling like without them, I am nothing. With the deaf children I am teaching now, it is not a good moral value to teach them. Just my two cents.
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I think children know a thing or two about accomplishment. They know about awards and pleasing people.

Anyway, while HAs and CIs make it easier, It is the child that count. I would never look at you and say "IF you had CI, you would accomplish SO much more" FJ is example of how she take her child's current CI and see how she accomplish 100% and won't let anyone tell her otherwise, even if technology or researchers tell her that other children with the same type of hearing loss and implanted at the age, but with more advanced technology do better than her child. FJ won't lower that 100% for the sake of advanced technology. that's the way it should be. Now, on the other hand, parents have to remind themselves that it isn't a cure, and that children need some kind of goals that don't requires implants or HAs so they don't feel they are nothing without their implants or HAs.
 
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