Drew's Dad
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My personal feeling is that if you can read above elementary school level, you can pretty much do whatever you want in your life.
In my field of working at a school for the deaf, I have seen a few children gotten implants only never to be successful because the parents chose to belieive that the implant would be like getting glasses... not so.. any thoughts??
I don't think I can agree that you can do "pretty much whatever you want" with only a 5th grade reading ability. You may be able to fake your way through higher education, or be your own boss in many different career fields, but I believe that a reading deficiency of that degree would severely limit your options with many employers and vocations. Can you expand upon that please?
If parents think that an implant is like getting glasses, they have not done their research (or they rely on ABC's "What About Brian" for information about cochlear implants, ASL and the like - what a joke that is). As strongly as I feel that I am making the best decision for my child, I fell just as strong that parents need to take responsibility for learning about the options and having a reason why they choose whether to implant or not.
Hearing about parents who let a child struggle with either their sign language-based learning or CI hearing and speech development when they haven't even made an effort to learn about the pros and cons of the surgery, therapy and education involved throughout a lifetime makes me sick.