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Started by Frank Duchoeny
Wed, 17 May 2000 00:00
Information Needed
Author: Frank Duchoeny
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:00
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I am looking for information about older (7-10 yr.) deaf signing children who have received a cochlear implant. Do these children benefit from the CI or is the CI soon rejected? My 8 yr. old son was refused for a cochlear implant based on the following reasons. "Age and communication mode are some aspects that our team considers when discussing an application. As you know your son is now 8 1/2 years old and uses sign language. Our experience shows that older kids, specifically those using sign language, obtain very marginal benefits from cochlear implants and often become non-users. We thus feel that a cochlear implant is not appropriate for your son" The above is directly quoted from the rejection letter. If this is not biased against the signing community I don't know what is. My son is begging to be implanted, but under public health care in Canada we don't even have the option of paying for it ourselves. Please comment, Frank Duchoeny Montreal, Canada frank@info-internet.net
Re: Information Needed
Author: Dan Hildebrand
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 00:00
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 00:00
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First of all, Frank, the letter is not 'bias against the signing community'. Let's not get paranoid here. But as I said to you earlier, you _can_ get your son implanted. Keep looking. And actually, if your son is begging for the implant, this seems to indicate that the motivation is there. I say go for it. But also prepare your son before you do it. Make sure he understands that the CI is not like a pair of eyeglasses. It _does_, in fact, take lots of work on his part after the surgery. Let him accept the responsibility. And good luck...my own son was implanted on 21MARCH2000 and he's doing fantastic. Hang in there... In article <eJAU4.388$WM6.31670613@news1.mtl.metronet.ca>, "Frank Duchoeny" <frank@info-internet.net> wrote: > I am looking for information about older (7-10 yr.) deaf signing children > who have received a cochlear implant. Do these children benefit from the CI > or is the CI soon rejected? My 8 yr. old son was refused for a cochlear > implant based on the following reasons. > > "Age and communication mode are some aspects that our team considers when > discussing an application. As you know your son is now 8 1/2 years old and > uses sign language. Our experience shows that older kids, specifically those > using sign language, obtain very marginal benefits from cochlear implants > and often become non-users. We thus feel that a cochlear implant is not > appropriate for your son" > > The above is directly quoted from the rejection letter. If this is not > biased against the signing community I don't know what is. My son is begging > to be implanted, but under public health care in Canada we don't even have > the option of paying for it ourselves. > > Please comment, > Frank Duchoeny > Montreal, Canada > frank@info-internet.net > > -- ---------------------------------- Hearing Schmearing................ Me and my kid have sports to play! http://www.netcom.com/~danhilde ---------------------------------- Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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