Which Choices of Communication should Hearing parents use for their implanted child?

How communication method do you think deaf implanted children should use?

  • Cued speech and Speech communication a language development tool for deaf children.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sign Language and Speech (Any) (Total Communication)

    Votes: 36 94.7%

  • Sign Language Only

    Votes: 2 5.3%

  • Oral Method without Sign Language.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I don't care either of the list above

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
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PuyoPiyo said:
First of all, I put effort on my child to wear the HA is my own opinion, but at second paragraph, I am pretending to be a parents of implanted deaf children. Also those deaf children with CI that don't know how to sign was bullied by those are deaf that knows sign is the truth. For example, one girl during my high school, she have the CI and don't know how to sign. She really want to learn sign, so she came to the deafies group and I have been hearing lot of deaf people say bad things about her just like she is other hearing person.



If my child don't benefit from a hearing aids, then I refuse to have CI for her/him and raise her/him in the deaf lifestyle, but being as a parents who desire a child to hear then I would go ahead to get CI.
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I am not understanding your last sentence, Puyo...looks like a conflicted sentence. Please clear this up for me. Thanks
 
Cheri said:
Ok, Tell me what have you done for your son from the begin to the present? When I mean what you've done, What communication method (s) have you use at the begin and to the present with your son.
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Cheri, maybe if you clicked on past posts made by Drew's Dad on this issue, it would help. I think he has, in the past, talked till he was blue in the face. Lol....
 
Tousi said:
I am not understanding your last sentence, Puyo...looks like a conflicted sentence. Please clear this up for me. Thanks
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Okay. I am going to start about my very own opinion. If my child does not benefit from the hearing aids, then I will refuse to let my child receive the CI and raise him/her as deaf lifestyle in the deaf cultures, communities, etc.

But...

If I was the parents who desire for their child to talk and hear, then I would just go ahead to get CI for the child as far as the hearing aids was unbenefit for the child.
 
john57 said:
I did not know enough about cued speech to make assessment and will not vote. I believe that a child should wear hearing aids if she or he can benefit from it. Sounds like you are saying that deaf kids from the deaf "community" are picking on other deaf kids that have a CI implant.
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I am seeing the opposite. I am seeing the deaf kids from the Deaf community wanting to be like their friends who have the CIs. They want one too. I guess it is different in parts of the nation. I think MD Deaf community is much more receptive to CI users than most other Deaf communities elsewhere. I could be wrong but according to my friend's brother who moved from Florida..he was shocked to see CI users in the Deaf community and how accepting most people were since according to him, from his Deaf community, they are not as accepting. I think it will change anyway.
 
PuyoPiyo said:
Okay. I am going to start about my very own opinion. If my child does not benefit from the hearing aids, then I will refuse to let my child receive the CI and raise him/her as deaf lifestyle in the deaf cultures, communities, etc.

But...

If I was the parents who desire for their child to talk and hear, then I would just go ahead to get CI for the child as far as the hearing aids was unbenefit for the child.
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That does not tell me what you will do. Do YOU, not other parents, now desire to get a CI for your child if he/she cannot benefit from a hearing aid?

You already said no to the CI if the HA doesn't benefit and will raise the child in the deaf lefestyle.

Which is it? If you don't want to say, that is alright.
 
shel90 said:
I am seeing the opposite. I am seeing the deaf kids from the Deaf community wanting to be like their friends who have the CIs. They want one too. I guess it is different in parts of the nation. I think MD Deaf community is much more receptive to CI users than most other Deaf communities elsewhere. I could be wrong but according to my friend's brother who moved from Florida..he was shocked to see CI users in the Deaf community and how accepting most people were since according to him, from his Deaf community, they are not as accepting. I think it will change anyway.
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Yeah I agree, the numbers of deaf people who bullied on deaf people with CI and knows no signs are beginning to decreasing. I know there is a lot of deaf people pulled some of deaf people with CI to learn the sign language.

Tousi said:
That does not tell me what you will do. Do YOU, not other parents, now desire to get a CI for your child if he/she cannot benefit from a hearing aid?

You already said no to the CI if the HA doesn't benefit and will raise the child in the deaf lefestyle.

Which is it? If you don't want to say, that is alright.
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I don't understand what you are asking.. The reason why I post two different opinion is because this thread ask "What if you have implanted deaf child" so I thought I would post my own wish and if I am the parents who desire a child to hear and talk, or already have a child that are implanted.
 
Drew's Dad said:
It depends on the age at which the child was implanted, their support system, educational resources, and their abilities - among other things.
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jillio said:
Would you care to elaborate on that?
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For example, if a child is receiving their implant at age 10, the oral approach is much less realistic compared to one recieving bilateral implants at 9 months. Similarly, if there are no oral deaf schools where the family can live, (or poor ones) the oral approach is not ideal. If the parents are foolish enough to think a CI is a "cure", then the oral approach sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

Other styles may similarly not work due to educational resource limits or lack of family involvement, or simply because it doesn't really work well for the child for whatever reason. Obviously if something is not working you need to take a different approach.

These examples certainly don't cover everything.
 
Drew's Dad said:
For example, if a child is receiving their implant at age 10, the oral approach is much less realistic compared to one recieving bilateral implants at 9 months. Similarly, if there are no oral deaf schools where the family can live, (or poor ones) the oral approach is not ideal. If the parents are foolish enough to think a CI is a "cure", then the oral approach sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

Other styles may similarly not work due to educational resource limits or lack of family involvement, or simply because it doesn't really work well for the child for whatever reason. Obviously if something is not working you need to take a different approach.

These examples certainly don't cover everything.
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Thanks for clarifying!:ty:
 
shel90 said:
Sign and speech...like neecy who wants to show that she supports signing, I want to show that I support having speech since some ADers think I am against having speech along with signing.

Hope this thread wil clear up any misunderstandings.
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Exactly... I am glad that Cheri created a thread here...

I voted both Sign Language and Speech
 
I'm very curious, who voted "sign language only" and why?...
 
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