Researchers identify forerunners of inner-ear cells that enable hearing

Way Cool! I learned a new word! Postlingually!

Deafdyke is not wrong about the language part of it. I'm trying to learn pronunciation now and it is a mine field. English is a hacked language taken from an incomplete language(Latin) and borrowed from several other languages.

However, I see Jane's point. Why not add full hearing to the tool box?

If the argument is: Even people that can hear can't fully communicate. Then we would need to agree on what is an acceptable level of communication. Having said that, you'd have a very big uphill battle pushing ASL vs full hearing because hearing people don't learn ASL.

This doesn't mean the tool box the kid gets isn't useful for communicating with parents, friends or co-workers who are deaf.
 
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omg thats so cool im sure it would make real diff to t recently impaired provided you have t proper requirements for the treatment....

also it a huge boom on t reasearch side.....
 
Bottesini said:
Did any of you actually read it?

I wouldn't mind being able to stand up without falling...
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Hearing people vastly underrate the sixth sense, which is sense of balance. If that could be restored, it would be great in itself. :cool2:
 
ncff07 said:
... but before I was implanted that was a discussion my audi and I had ... just implant 1 ear at that time instead of going bi-lateral ... to "save" an ear just in case a cure was found for deafness or the other implant malfunctioned I would have a "back up" I could considered getting another implant in the future ... I doubt this method will be available in my lifetime though ...

Edit: also makes me wonder if that method of regenerating those cells would work after someone has been implanted.
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Yes, me and my audiologist discussed "saving" an ear. I think I'll just sit back and wait and see what's out there.
 
deafdyke said:
How do you know being born with hearing loss doesn't give them advantages? I've been told by hearing people they envy the fact that I can turn off my hearing.
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I don't get the whole gay = deafness thing again, but I know none of my coworkers wish they had my hearing loss. I wish I could hear what they do every day and if there was someway to change it, I would. I can't think of any advantages of not hearing my family or enjoying the sounds I've come to love. Frankly speaking, if I could be cured of my learning disability too, I'd do that in a heart beat and not look back. I doubt either have enriched my life in any way. I know my lousy job and paycheck is owed in large part to my LD and inability to hear.

Laura
 
VacationGuy234 said:
There are intense feelings on both sides. The Deaf Community has the view that there is nothing wrong and doesn't wish to lose members. On the other hand, the early years of a child's development depends on good hearing for later life communication with the hearing world.

These are contentious issues. In the end, the best interest of the child needs to be considered.

I've been following the research and I'm hoping there will be a solution for me in my lifetime.

It's been a long road..
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If there was a way to restore hearing the speech would follow...but it would take hard work and a willingness to speak on the part of the patient. Someone that wants to sit back and let speech happen without taking an active role, won't benefit. However, success does depend on the severity of the hearing loss and age at that time of language development. It'd be wonderful, not just late deafened, but also those hearing impaired that have fared well with HA. I suspect though that results are quite a ways off yet....but isn't it wonderful?
 
Lau2046 said:
I don't get the whole gay = deafness thing again, but I know none of my coworkers wish they had my hearing loss. I wish I could hear what they do every day and if there was someway to change it, I would. I can't think of any advantages of not hearing my family or enjoying the sounds I've come to love. Frankly speaking, if I could be cured of my learning disability too, I'd do that in a heart beat and not look back. I doubt either have enriched my life in any way. I know my lousy job and paycheck is owed in large part to my LD and inability to hear.

Laura
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If I was a lot younger I would think of fixing my hearing and get rid of my speech defect , but at my age now it would not change my life that much. And I think I would hate hearing so many sounds I never heard before. The only thing I really wish I could hear better is my grandchild .
 
It's all about perspective is what I'm trying to say. There's also a lot of intersectionality......I remember I used to talk to Nancy, (very radical feminist type) and she got it. Heck, 40 ish years ago being GLB was considered a MENTAL ILLNESS......
It's exactly like how Kate Bornstien had sex reassignment surgery. She was born a man, and then had the SRS surgery. She thought that she wanted to become a woman....and then realized that she wasn't a man or a woman.
It's very simlair....Our society is fixtated on "OMG it's SO wonderful to be able to HEAR normally, or walk normally or see normally."
I completely understand for example seeing mental illness, or autism or intllectucal disabilty as a real life limiting impairment.
But if you offer ALL the tools possible, then being dhh, blind/low vision/wheelchair/walker user just becomes a part of yourself. (and I do understand 100% about how someone who aquires a disabilty could find it limiting) But someone born dhh/blind/low vision/walker/wheelchair user, if they are given the full toolbox, and simply given the tools to make themselves feel proud of being dhh/blind/wheelchair user, then it just becomes a part of yourself.
Would it be easier? Yes, but anyone who isn't a straight white Protestant middle class male struggles in our society. Yet nobody is suggesting SRS for women, or skin lightening surgery for blacks/Asians, or for the poor to become rich or for people to change religions.
 
and again, how do you know being Dhh doesn't confer advantages that would vanish if the hearing loss vanished?
 
VacationGuy234 said:
Specifically, what advantages to you see accompanying being deaf/Hard of Hearing?
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...Plenty.

And there are so plenty of successful Deaf people have great jobs, high degrees, and etc. They don't wear HAs (or CIs) and ASL.

It's society's attitudes toward people with hearing loss, whenever you like that fact or not.
 
Jane B. said:
Why do you care if it results in "hearing like a hearing person" or not if it results in very good communication?
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I have very good communication with others using ASL and written English. What's the issue?
 
VacationGuy234 said:
There are intense feelings on both sides. The Deaf Community has the view that there is nothing wrong and doesn't wish to lose members. On the other hand, the early years of a child's development depends on good hearing for later life communication with the hearing world.

These are contentious issues. In the end, the best interest of the child needs to be considered.

I've been following the research and I'm hoping there will be a solution for me in my lifetime.

It's been a long road..
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We can communicate with the hearing world....through written English which is becoming more and more used than spoken English through texting, social media, and Internet.
 
deafdyke said:
It's all about perspective is what I'm trying to say. There's also a lot of intersectionality......I remember I used to talk to Nancy, (very radical feminist type) and she got it. Heck, 40 ish years ago being GLB was considered a MENTAL ILLNESS......
It's exactly like how Kate Bornstien had sex reassignment surgery. She was born a man, and then had the SRS surgery. She thought that she wanted to become a woman....and then realized that she wasn't a man or a woman.
It's very simlair....Our society is fixtated on "OMG it's SO wonderful to be able to HEAR normally, or walk normally or see normally."
I completely understand for example seeing mental illness, or autism or intllectucal disabilty as a real life limiting impairment.
But if you offer ALL the tools possible, then being dhh, blind/low vision/wheelchair/walker user just becomes a part of yourself. (and I do understand 100% about how someone who aquires a disabilty could find it limiting) But someone born dhh/blind/low vision/walker/wheelchair user, if they are given the full toolbox, and simply given the tools to make themselves feel proud of being dhh/blind/wheelchair user, then it just becomes a part of yourself.
Would it be easier? Yes, but anyone who isn't a straight white Protestant middle class male struggles in our society. Yet nobody is suggesting SRS for women, or skin lightening surgery for blacks/Asians, or for the poor to become rich or for people to change religions.
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no matter don't care. that is why. that is why point. that is very lots fo different variety.. shrug
 
KarissaMann05 said:
...Plenty.

And there are so plenty of successful Deaf people have great jobs, high degrees, and etc. They don't wear HAs (or CIs) and ASL.

It's society's attitudes toward people with hearing loss, whenever you like that fact or not.
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"Plenty" how about getting more specific by giving us your list?

I do agree that society's attitudes are involved but only part of any problems being it involving hearing or other things.
 
Jane B. said:
"Plenty" how about getting more specific by giving us your list?

I do agree that society's attitudes are involved but only part of any problems being it involving hearing or other things.
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I dont want to use those Deaf/ASL users' names here. Working for fed gov employees in many different kind of jobs, engineers, Teachers, dept of financial, representatives for stores or varied of agency and more. They are just average people like us.
 
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deafdyke[/B];2183668]Well the question is, could someone born Dhh actually hear like a hearing person? I seriously doubt it. I think for born dhh or born blind/low vision it's going to be more complicated then simply fixing the hair cells in the ear.
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Jane B. said:
Why do you care if it results in "hearing like a hearing person" or not if it results in very good communication?
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shel90 said:
I have very good communication with others using ASL and written English. What's the issue?
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For me, it is that she (deafdyke) keeps talking about "hearing like a hearing person" rather than if something has resulted in good communication via voice if it now sounds like it would to a hearing person or not.
 
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