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QUOTE=Daredevel7;1287423]Two issues are being blurred here. There is the issue of how well does the CI work and the indirect effects of having a CI (such as being treated like a hearing). Those two are completely different to me. The anti-CI people are angry about how the CI is treated like a cure (which I've never experienced btw.) and the kid gets screwed because he gets treated like a hearing. However, some of them combine the two issues together and say that the CI doesn't work and makes children miserable. If the child is miserable, it has nothing to do with the CI, but rather the parent's high expectations of the child. It's no different from a child who is miserable because he cannot get A's, making his parents disappointed in him. I am not saying that ALL CIs work, but it's not fair to say that it's the CI's fault if a child seems to be miserable with the CIs.

"The pressure on a deaf child to become hearing from the environment when people realize it's implanted can be huge. Some deaf adults have reported that their families have stopped using sign language after they was implanted. The deaf adult had to explain their family that CI was not a "cure", but still some family members tries to keep on talking. You perhaps haven't experienced that, but it does happen."

Personally, this was not the case. In fact, it was my SON who dropped his signs- not us. And no, not because he is embarrassed, but because he doesn't need them anylonger to communicate with us. As I have said earlier- he also was given the opportuninty recently to not be re-implanted (his choice- I would support anything that he wanted- he's old enough now to make a decisiion) and guess what?????HE WANTED IT! He said he LOVED hearing music with his iPod, being able to talk on his cell phone...

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<blockquote data-quote="doubletrouble" data-source="post: 1287581" data-attributes="member: 12756"><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/gpost.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":gpost:" title="Good Post&nbsp; &nbsp; :gpost:" data-shortname=":gpost:" />QUOTE=Daredevel7;1287423]Two issues are being blurred here. There is the issue of how well does the CI work and the indirect effects of having a CI (such as being treated like a hearing). Those two are completely different to me. The anti-CI people are angry about how the CI is treated like a cure (which I've never experienced btw.) and the kid gets screwed because he gets treated like a hearing. However, some of them combine the two issues together and say that the CI doesn't work and makes children miserable. If the child is miserable, it has nothing to do with the CI, but rather the parent's high expectations of the child. It's no different from a child who is miserable because he cannot get A's, making his parents disappointed in him. I am not saying that ALL CIs work, but it's not fair to say that it's the CI's fault if a child seems to be miserable with the CIs.</blockquote>&quot;The pressure on a deaf child to become hearing from the environment when people realize it's implanted can be huge. Some deaf adults have reported that their families have stopped using sign language after they was implanted. The deaf adult had to explain their family that CI was not a &quot;cure&quot;, but still some family members tries to keep on talking. You perhaps haven't experienced that, but it does happen.&quot;Personally, this was not the case.&nbsp; In fact, it was my SON who dropped his signs- not us.&nbsp; And no, not because he is embarrassed, but because he doesn't need them anylonger to communicate with us.&nbsp; As I have said earlier- he also was given the opportuninty recently to not be re-implanted (his choice- I would support anything that he wanted- he's old enough now to make a decisiion) and guess what?????HE WANTED IT!&nbsp; He said he LOVED hearing music with his iPod, being able to talk on his cell phone...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="doubletrouble, post: 1287581, member: 12756"] :gpost:QUOTE=Daredevel7;1287423]Two issues are being blurred here. There is the issue of how well does the CI work and the indirect effects of having a CI (such as being treated like a hearing). Those two are completely different to me. The anti-CI people are angry about how the CI is treated like a cure (which I've never experienced btw.) and the kid gets screwed because he gets treated like a hearing. However, some of them combine the two issues together and say that the CI doesn't work and makes children miserable. If the child is miserable, it has nothing to do with the CI, but rather the parent's high expectations of the child. It's no different from a child who is miserable because he cannot get A's, making his parents disappointed in him. I am not saying that ALL CIs work, but it's not fair to say that it's the CI's fault if a child seems to be miserable with the CIs.[/QUOTE] "The pressure on a deaf child to become hearing from the environment when people realize it's implanted can be huge. Some deaf adults have reported that their families have stopped using sign language after they was implanted. The deaf adult had to explain their family that CI was not a "cure", but still some family members tries to keep on talking. You perhaps haven't experienced that, but it does happen." Personally, this was not the case. In fact, it was my SON who dropped his signs- not us. And no, not because he is embarrassed, but because he doesn't need them anylonger to communicate with us. As I have said earlier- he also was given the opportuninty recently to not be re-implanted (his choice- I would support anything that he wanted- he's old enough now to make a decisiion) and guess what?????HE WANTED IT! He said he LOVED hearing music with his iPod, being able to talk on his cell phone... [/QUOTE]

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