Pooh? LP?

crfische · July 2010

Are you guys around? I have a question.

wadingmoose · July 2010

Is it about libraries?

crfische · July 2010

NO, SMART GUY.

alixzafiris · July 2010

Pooh has been habitating on the Twi-board a lot this week

pumpkinpumpkin · July 2010

HAHA. That would be kinda funny if Fishy had to go there looking for her.

pooh8402 · July 2010

haha I have been hiding out on Twi-board a lot. tired of wedding talk.

what's up?

pooh8402 · July 2010

yo, I'm not going to hang around forever.

wadingmoose · July 2010

Ha. It looks like Alix sent out the E batsignal to the twi board. That's funny.

We have a bat signal.

Now we need a Fish signal!

pooh8402 · July 2010

ha, she didn't. I really am hanging out here today. Twi is dead. I'm killing time before a phone interview (in 25 minutes, woohoo!).

wadingmoose · July 2010

Ahhhh. Darn. I was so hoping for an E Bat Signal.

vallyhoo · July 2010

Fish signal:

pooh8402 · July 2010

nah, this is the Fishy signal:

wadingmoose · July 2010

So basically what we're saying is there's more than one way to catch a fish?

vallyhoo · July 2010

exactly. they just can't go out in the sun.

oh wait, what were we talking about again?

pooh8402 · July 2010

I'm not even sure. I was hailed.

wadingmoose · July 2010

Eric. Clearly we were talking about hot, blonde Eric.

pooh8402 · July 2010

Eric... *drool*

vallyhoo · July 2010

Eric Foreman? From That 70s Show?

wadingmoose · July 2010

Well, Eric Foreman has a much better chance of luring Fishy in. I'm pretty sure she's anti-vamp.

alixzafiris · July 2010

She won't be anti-vamp when I get through with her, just you wait. She'll be playing drunken dolls with Pocket Edward before she knows what's happened.

pooh8402 · July 2010

Eric Foreman is fun to talk to.
Eric Northman is fun to look at.

vallyhoo · July 2010

she may be anti-vamp, but I hear she is quite a vamp. if you kwim

wadingmoose · July 2010

You can't be a vamp in Crocs. It's just not possible.

vallyhoo · July 2010

the margarita evolution begs to differ:

alixzafiris · July 2010

Pooh, Fische doesn't have access to the interwebz this afternoon - she's in a web seminar - but she was wondering about your opinion(s)/take is on cochlear implants?

pooh8402 · July 2010

sorry for the delay--I was on a phone interview (and got a face-to-face tomorrow, squee!)

Roxy actually would be a good person to ask too, about cochlear implants.

note: I am not a candidate for cochlear implants, as I have too much residual hearing for them--it would just mess me up further. so I haven't done much research, and my knowledge is limited.

They have their pros and their cons. I hear way more about the cons than the pros.
Pros: bring back hearing for the profoundly deaf, and nearly all the time. it really helps with language acquisition, to promote a more natural (aka verbal) style of communication.
Cons: the hearing is unnatural and takes some getting used to. the person has to essentially reprogram their brain to understand that this sound means "car" and that sound means "dog barking." it is expensive and invasive, with some pretty serious risks. it's unsightly, although it can be hidden.

my personal opinion is that they are GREAT for young, profoundly deaf people, because they can gain language more easily than without. a former coworker has a niece who got CIs at 3 years old, and she gained about 20 words a week it seemed like. after a certain age, or with a certain hearing threshold, they can cause more harm than good, or at least, more confusion and disorientation. I did read a blog in my local paper about a dude in his 50s that was a staff writer, who got CIs in his 50s. the blog was about his pre-surgical testing, the surgery itself, and post-surgical readjustment. it was a commitment for him and for those around him (family, friends, coworkers) but they made the adjustments and he's doing great and can speak much better than he used to.

alixzafiris · July 2010

Thanks dahlink! I'll let Fische know you replied.

And YAAAY on the interview! Fingers crossed.

crfische · July 2010

Pooh!! THANK YOU for your input! It's hard to dicipher on the internet what's really going on with them, and truly google is more frightening that it is helpful at times. Thank you for taking the time to respond. We'd be taking about a 14 month old here, so I really think there can be a lot of positive things that come out of it, but it seems like a lot of people in the deaf community are against them, and I didn't really get why.

pooh8402 · July 2010

some people (not all, but some) in the Deaf community believe that Deaf communication should be strictly visual--ASL, signed english, etc. that visual communication is a Deaf person's natural form of communication and that they shouldn't conform to what the world believes is the natural form of communication--verbal. it depends on who you talk to and their circumstances, environment, etc.

me, I don't consider myself a Deaf person (as in, with a capital D). I am a legally deaf person in the hearing community. I was mainstreamed, so therefore, I am willing to make the accommodations to conform to the hearing community. some Deaf people believe that the hearing community should make accommodations for them--ie entitlement. I don't go for that. I just want to be able to enjoy the same things hearing people do (like movie theaters, which is why I am pissed my local theaters do not have captioning--I can't enjoy it as well as the next person).

nda_roxybabe · July 2010

I'm going to pop in here too, if thats ok.

I think Pooh is really spot on. I've seen adults get them and say everyone sounds like Donald Duck or all they hear is sounds. I've also seen adults get them and cry because they're hearing things they've never heard before (a receipt printing, someone laughing). For adults they can be hit or miss and its a bit of process even getting approved to get one.

From all the children I've seen get CI's (about 6 or more ranging from 14months-10years old) they all had amazing success, at a young age like that you're such a sponge anyway and learning so much that it would be quite easy for a young person to learn how to hear with a cochlear. It can still be a process in learning what sounds are and experiences but it seems to be much easier on a young child.

A lot of the time when the young kids realize they can't hear when they take the implant off they can get a little sassy and rip it off anytime they're getting in trouble or dont want to listen. Kids are smart!

They can be unsightly but they have nice colored ones for children and with a girl, your hair easily covers it.

I would strongly recommend anyone whose child is getting a CI to still teach them and make sure they're fluent in ASL because if that implants fails or needs repair they are left without any thing. They need to still be able to communicate. One 5 year olds mother did not teach her ASL (against the recommendation of the AuD.) and when her implant failed she would get so frustrated because she had no way to communicate.

It's true that a lot of the time the Deaf community will not except those with CI's because they feel like those people have no embraced their deafness. Some people also think that those with CI's belong to neither community (the hearing or the Deaf).

All in all, I'm a firm advocate of CI's in children but I'm also coming from the Audiology standpoint. I'm not deaf so I can't completely understand. If that makes sense?

crfische · July 2010

It does make sense, Rox. THANK YOU for responding. ♥

What you guys are saying are pretty much what we're hearing too, and so there are pros and cons, but it seems that for the most part, the pros outweigh the cons, especially for wee little ones.

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