Have I sought "counselling" re: increasing hearing loss to deafness- over the last 40 years? As previously mentioned before I took CdnHearing Society/Toronto Hearing Help classes since 1992 to 2007. They offered Speechreading/Coping with Hearing Loss in classes of 10 to 12 hours a couple times in the year. I actually took part on a York University/CHS study on how persons used CHS classes to cope with their Hearing Loss. Duly published in the Journal of Aural Rehabilitation. Thanks to CHS I was "processed very quickly" through the Cochlear Implant process at Sunnybrook/Toronto.
As mentioned before I did in actual fact read an "interesting" book; A journey to the Deafworld" Harlan Lane et al. re: "cultural deafness" ENT doctors and the deaf. How many here actually believe any of this? Cochlear Implants "instruments of genocide".
I have also mentioned before that I knew I would become deaf since 1992-after losing all hearing in Right ear. I measure 85 db loss in both ears then. From ENT tests-cancer or tumours etc which didn't explain the loss. Genetic! Yeah it happened on December 20, 2006. Enough for the moment
Implanted Advanced Bionics-Harmony activated Aug/07
