Whistling

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Your post made me smile, I have never bothered with my aid since the

day I was activated and the main reason was because of the Whistling

of the feedback, towards the end it was just about all I could hear

palinly from the aid and as soon as the CI was turned on it was

terrible. I took of the Aid right then and my Audi said I should try

to use the CI alone for awhile to adapt but it was so nice not to

have the feedback I never considered putting it back in. Now what

really made me smile was the line about blowing air, I was never any

good at whistling anyway but I tried just the same thing and when I

asked my wife if I was whistling or just blowing air she said - " your

just blowing Air, it's just not all Hot air like you normally do " -

Darn Wife she knows me too well....

Have a great evening.

Regards,

Mike " Ears Hopin " P

Nucleus Freedom

>

> Actually, a bit off the topic here, but now that I have a CI, and

wear an

> aid on the other side, I DO hear it whistle with feedback, when it

does.

> The CI picks it up quite clearly.

>

> And speaking of whistling, since I got my CI I can whistle again.

I stopped

> being able to whistle when I lost the ability to hear it.

Strangest thing.

> I asked my husband if I was whistling, before I got the CI and he

said no, I

> was just blowing air. But now, got my whistle back!

>

> Binns

> BEA Volunteer

>

> ----Original Message Follows----

> From: M Jansen <nucleus24@...>

> Reply-

>

> Subject: stimulation

> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:43:17 -0400

>

> Hi ,

> Personally I think it's a plot by the battery companies to get

you to

> use batteries in a HA in a totally deaf ear in case it might

stimulate it

> so it will work down the line. Reminds me of kicking a dead

horse. If

> you can't HEAR in the ear at all, what is stimulation going to do,

> besides cause the HA to whistle, which you won't hear, and burn up

> batteries?

> I was implanted in an ear that had no hearing, no stimulation

for 20

> years. And it worked just fine. Took about 3 months to get to

hearing

> the way I do now, and some speculate that it would have taken less

time

> if I'd done an ear that had stimulation longer. But I don't use

the HA

> in the non implanted ear because that is totally deaf, too. And no

way

> am I going to annoy myself with stimulating a deaf ear, any more

than I'd

> kick a dead horse.

>

> The Original

>

> Hello and everyone,

> I have turned into a bit of a lurker, but just thought I'd ask; I

wonder

> if

> it IS indeed true that one's auditory nerve needs to have been

stimulated

> in

> order to respond well to CI hearing. If it was true, why do so many

> prelinguals do so well, or people who were born deaf and never

really

> heard

> sound? Many people do well with CI's that have never had either

normal

> hearing, or even hearing aid augmented hearing. If the nerve truly

needed

>

> to be stimulated in order to work, it wouldn't work for these

people, it

> would only work for the late deafened, or people who have had some

kind

> of

> prior hearing.

>

> Binns

> BEA Volunteer

>

>

[Guest guest]

My 6 yr old , non verbal little boy has just started whistling ! Its very cute

and he is thrilled with himself. Is there any significance to this development

ie is it a step closer to speech ( he has a few sounds for words but no real

words) Thanks Caroline..

[Guest guest]

anything that builds confidence is going to real take him far.  I haven't heard

of whisting helping speech though.  I know plenty of my friends who can talk

but can not whistle.  I think it is super though that your son can do it!

From: jcbgalvin <jcbgalvin@...>

Subject: [ ] Whistling

Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 2:48 PM

 

My 6 yr old , non verbal little boy has just started whistling ! Its very

cute and he is thrilled with himself. Is there any significance to this

development ie is it a step closer to speech ( he has a few sounds for words but

no real words) Thanks Caroline..