I need your help and opinions :)

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Hello Everyone,

Okay so I am taking a debate class (just a special education current

issues debate class) for my graduate program in Deaf Education. I have

to present a debate for the class. And of coarse I decided to do

cochlear implants. So here is where you all come in .

My idea was to have the debate set up like a court room. I was going

to give each person in the class a role to play to either defend the

use of cochlear implants or state their opposition to it. What I need

from you is your opionis or what you would say in this situation so

that I can give to my class opinions and throughts from people who are

actually living this everyday.

I am going to present it as a hearing mother who wants to get a

cochlear implant for her child but is fighting against the insurance

company who has all these people backing them up that CI are bad. I am

looking for opinions from a hearing mom with a deaf infant looking to

get implanted, a hearing mom with an implanted child (and i know there

are tons of you out there), a deaf mom of an implanted child, an

audiologist, a teacher of the deaf, a auditory verbal therapist, a

speech therapist, an implanted teenager, and inplanted elementary

child (so ask your children there opinions ), a hearing father of

an implanted teenager, and a hearing parent of a deaf child who might

be older who does not have an implant yet. Does this make any sense to

anyone? I hope so. I know that my class and myself appriciate all of

your input. It is so good for people who are not familiar with CI to

be exposed to what parents are thinking and feeling about CIs.

Again your help is greatly appriciated (and maybe one day one of these

regular education teachers will be teaching your child with an implant

and might just know something about it - at least that is my hope.)

Thanks again,