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I also have mixed feelings about kids getting implanted. I'm not against kids with auditory nereopathy or kids who get very little benifit from hearing aids getting implanted.....I do know that the implant criteria for kids is stricter then for adults (which is GOOD!) but on the other hand I've heard of kids who can hear VERY well with hearing aids,(they hear at HOH levels) being implanted, and that is just wrong. The parents of those kids should be legally held to wait on implantation until the kid is a teen and so the kid can have at least some say on being implanted. I see so many parents thinking that "the CI is the ANSWER and will make my child "more hearing."

[QUOTE="deafdyke, post: 153810, member: 233"] I also have mixed feelings about kids getting implanted. I'm not against kids with auditory nereopathy or kids who get very little benifit from hearing aids getting implanted.....I do know that the implant criteria for kids is stricter then for adults (which is GOOD!) but on the other hand I've heard of kids who can hear VERY well with hearing aids,(they hear at HOH levels) being implanted, and that is just wrong. The parents of those kids should be legally held to wait on implantation until the kid is a teen and so the kid can have at least some say on being implanted. I see so many parents thinking that "the CI is the ANSWER and will make my child "more hearing." [/QUOTE]

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