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If you get a CI you have to make the choice when the child is young whether you want to go the ASL route or the oral/CI route.  Each choice requires the development of a totally different set of skills.  If someone gets a CI when they are older they will have difficulty hearing through it and making sense of what they hear, if they have never heard before.  Your brain gets "wired" to either auditory or visual communication at an early age.