That was the decision I made for my own deaf son. He is currently a graduate student at a major hearing university. He has no CI, and does not see how a CI could contribute anything to his life. He has a profound loss, yet was able to develop speech skills and communicates well using speech, but prefers sign.
How nice for him. I congratulate him.
You, however, Jillio
hearie, I'll bet my both hands, you wonder every night
what would the outcome today be IF you decided to also implant him
at the right time?...
Would all that success come to him sooner, easier, more in this hearing world he is conquering now?
I'll bet it would, because like I've said before- any amount of hearing is beneficial.
Just saying. From personal experience. Oh, yes- the audist experience, that's right.
btw Jillio, your son is not fooling me.
Sure, normally he might be very level headed easygoing young man who has no hang-ups about his deafness.
But I am not being fooled. He may not going to ever tell you this
but - a deafie in a hearing world?
EVERYONE w/o exception has a dark hour from time to time, sooner or later,
sweetheart.
Not that I wish that on him, certainly not - but - I've been there, done that... I know firsthand all the intelligence and charm in the world is no match for the bullies and dolts in this society, sorry to tell you that.
That's when sometimes lil' bit of hearing could've come handy, you know.
In separate issue, your son Jillio was very lucky in having you as a mom in this aspect that you are obviously educated and somewhat knowledgeable in some pedagogy.
That is enormous help in raising a child in general, let alone a deaf child.
So of course your son is thriving as he is.
But generally, the parents does not have skills necessary to be a teacher - which is a learned skill, to teach- hence they can not assist their child/ren
with daily learning and later academic as well as you do with your son.
This is an important fact to be taken under consideration while getting excited over how well your
deaf child is doing in a "hearing school".
Most of the deaf children in hearing schools are depending on themselves only (apart from school provided assistance, if any) and that's that.
That's environment where any amount of hearing still comes VERY handy.
I am not saying absolutely
necessary, mind you -
just HANDY.
And I don't see why the deaf people should deny themselves this bit of
convenience, which is just what it is-
a convenience for crissake, to be able to hear as much as it is possible.
I already mentioned how being able to hear either thru HAs or CI doesn't mean to be DC and ASL exclusive.
It's time for some pple to stop looking at the convenience of hearing thru their own painful childhood experience and separate simply the convenience of hearing
from their own personal traumas.
Fuzzy
You seriously need to do some self examination on those audist beliefs of yours. You are another example of a deaf audist.
