Pros and Cons of Cochlear Implants

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Hello! This is for a class project I'm doing. I'm interested in hearing from you what YOU think are the pros and cons of cochlear implants. Also, if you have any experience in audio-verbal therapy, I'd like to hear your opinion on that. Thanks!
 
Just do a search, as this has already been answered several times on this board.
 
Auditory verbal therapy is EVIL. I'm sorry but the mentality behind it is just .......beyond cruel. It doesn't allow the child to speechread.....It's also based on a very outdated theory, that children learn speech by sound exclusively. It's actually not true. Kids learn spoken language by a combonation of speech AND seeing/speechreading. It is also too intense for most if not all families. Imagine raising a toddler/kid and having to constantly make every single moment into a Spoken Language Learning Session. Right here, we have a mom who raised her HOH daughter with AVT. She said that the AV therapist suggested turning a visit to a grocery store into a Formal Language Learning Session, by naming every single item of groceries, rather then just normal mother-child interaction. AVT also makes a mockery of deaf children b/c it implies that we cannot develop spoken language without being in an eternal speech therapy session. Why not just normal speech therapy?
 
deafdyke said:
Auditory verbal therapy is EVIL. I'm sorry but the mentality behind it is just .......beyond cruel. It doesn't allow the child to speechread.....It's also based on a very outdated theory, that children learn speech by sound exclusively. It's actually not true. Kids learn spoken language by a combonation of speech AND seeing/speechreading. It is also too intense for most if not all families. Imagine raising a toddler/kid and having to constantly make every single moment into a Spoken Language Learning Session. Right here, we have a mom who raised her HOH daughter with AVT. She said that the AV therapist suggested turning a visit to a grocery store into a Formal Language Learning Session, by naming every single item of groceries, rather then just normal mother-child interaction. AVT also makes a mockery of deaf children b/c it implies that we cannot develop spoken language without being in an eternal speech therapy session. Why not just normal speech therapy?
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I was going to say something but I realized it is just pointless.
I must say, however, that no choices (unless they involve torture) are EVIL and you should consider the source of your information. And sometimes you can think you are chatting with an audiologically Deaf person but you might be chatting with a hearing person or a hard of hearing person. Consider the source.

Don't listen to me. Don't listen to anybody on this forum. Do research on actual peer reviewed journals.
 
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