Cochler Implants in CHARGE..an abstact

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Popped up on my alerts:

Interesting to say the least..

http://www.mdlinx.com/PALinx/xml-article.cfm/1904997

Casey

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This is very interesting to say the least...the article is written

by 's implant team at NYU in New York. was one of the

earlier kids to get implanted and while he certainly does not have

benefit like a typical deaf child, he has so much more than

just " connectivity " to his environment. He is an entirely different

child with and without his implant on. He loves music, recognizes

voices, understands words and common phrases and is ever learning

more and more auditory skills. He has not yet acquired oral speech

but this was never an initial goal for implanting him. I would urge

any not be discouraged. We were told to expect nothing when

got his implant...so I guess we far exceeded even NYUs expectations.

Barbara (mom to 6 1/2)

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> Popped up on my alerts:

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> Interesting to say the least..

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> http://www.mdlinx.com/PALinx/xml-article.cfm/1904997

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> Casey

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> Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's

updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.

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yes very intersting

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> This is very interesting to say the least...the article is written

> by 's implant team at NYU in New York. was one of the

> earlier kids to get implanted and while he certainly does not have

> benefit like a typical deaf child, he has so much more than

> just " connectivity " to his environment. He is an entirely different

> child with and without his implant on. He loves music, recognizes

> voices, understands words and common phrases and is ever learning

> more and more auditory skills. He has not yet acquired oral speech

> but this was never an initial goal for implanting him. I would urge

> any not be discouraged. We were told to expect nothing when

> got his implant...so I guess we far exceeded even NYUs expectations.

> Barbara (mom to 6 1/2)

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> > Popped up on my alerts:

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> > Interesting to say the least..

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> > http://www.mdlinx.com/PALinx/xml-article.cfm/1904997

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> > Casey

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> > Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's

> updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.

> > http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow

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[Guest guest]

Very interesting article. What is even more interesting is one of the

doctors, was the doctor that we used, he suggested the BAHA, when that did not

work, decided to explore the cochlear implant. After a year or so of testing,

he decided that " even if we could get the sound to her brain, she would not be

able to process it " .

He goes on to write " Eleven children were used for the study " , " Ten were

implanted, and the eleventh " was not implanted because of severe retardation " .

My guess is he is referring to as the 11th child. What infuriates me

is that he does not even know well enough to classify her as severe

retardation. Yes I know she has a lot of issues and communication is

difficult,

and is quite delayed, but he never gave her a chance. I keep gong back to

if our children could learn to communicate, and we could figure out how to

" tap " into them, they could go a lot farther. This doctor dropped the ball so

many times, never showed up to meetings when we were to discuss it further,

screwed up her BAHA, had to re-graft skin a second time a second place b/c he

cut " to much skin " ., AND implanted her w/a BAHA before doing testing to see if

it would work. This was all 5 years ago, it was new and we did not know

enough about it to believe differently than what he told us.

OK, I vented,

thanks Casy for passing this on!

Cathie, mom to 12 yr CHARGEr

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