My cochlear never fully developed in my right ear. I'm fifteen and my family still worries about me crossing the streets. I never know which direction a sound is coming from and my hearing gets interrupted by the slightest sound. I try maybe about 30 times harder to hear than normal people and it comes with no result. So, I don't think someone who's never had to deal with it shouldn't talk about how wrong it is and how hearing isn't that great. Try walking around with an ear plugged. it sucks
I have Meniere's disease and have lost about half the hearing in my left ear over the past four years. I fear that if it keeps progressing soon I will be deaf in that ear. I'm starting to look into cochlear implants as an option.
Coreysec, I got your message in my inbox. Ok you wear a cochlear implant and you like it and prefer it. That is your choice and you have every right to do to your body what you want.
However, my comments are related to parents making a decision to fundamentally alter their perfectly normal deaf children and simply believe it should be the persons own choice as to whether they want a cochlear implant... no one else's... not even their parents.
Deafness is not something that should be cured because it is not a disability. Deaf people know how to communicate using Sign Language and people should stop trying to cure a totally normal human condition. Deaf is just as normal as hearing and hearing is just as normal as deaf.
i dont agree with that, deafness is a disability, its a loss of a sense that normal people have. and i think that every deaf person is entitled to be treated and live and enjoy life just as hearing people do. so ur telling me that blindness for instance or perhaps the loss of touch senstation isnt a disability? i respect ur point of view, but for me i find it hard to agree with
Sorry but you do not have to be able to hear things in order to live a full and productive life. While deaf people might not be able to hear sounds, they have a visually enriched life and can communicate using the various forms of Sign Language used around the world. I am a hearing person but if I were to go deaf tomorrow I would not seek a cochlear implant or any form of technology to bring back my hearing, I would simply accept my condition as normal and natural and live with it!
And yes I am learning sign language as a hearing person because I believe in equality and have decided that I would like to communicate with deaf people using their language... just like some people learn Spanish to communicate with spanish speaking people in a non-spanish speaking country... I will soon be a bilingual person and more people should be like this rather than focusing on CURING something that need not be cured.
So, what if your vision deteriorated tomorrow and you needed glasses. Your saying that you wouldn't get glasses and live not being able to see as well as you could if you got glasses? That's what it sounds like to me. I agree that you don't have to hear things to live life, but what if you were a child, a deaf child who WANTED to hear? Would you consider your quality of life good if you were in a mainstream public school and you were missing out on conversation and playing with peers?
@lovelycaitie89 > First of all... are you deaf? if not, you can't possibly understand what if feels like to go through a surgery like this. Wearing glasses and putting on plastic things on your face NOT IN in your ear is totally different which BTW this "Cochlear" surgery takes years to get use to and is VERY painful. The best thing to do for your children is learn and teach them ASL! Have you seen Marlee Matlin? She's accomplished so much. There is NOTHING that woman can't do & she's DEAF
No, I am not deaf but my sister is and she is a cochlear implant recipient. I have seen first hand what she went through. My parents raised her to believe that she can do anything. They asked her if she wanted a cochlear implant at the age of ten and she said yes. We had a load of crap from the deaf community, but my parents ignored it because it was what she WANTED. My sister is now a university student and doing quite well. I have seen Marlee on things and I do have respect for
@loveHuera81 I have incredible respect for her, but my sister did not want that path to be HER LIFE. She wanted something different. It should be about what works for the INDIVIDUAL, not what everybody else wants. My sister would NEVER go back to hearing aids, EVER. The only regret she has is not getting it done sooner. I am fine with ASL and even know a few phrases, but my sister is oral. I don't believe it cures deafness, there is no cure. I see it as an enhancement available to who wants it
And now that you know my stance, I just have to ask the same question you posed to me, are you deaf? Have you ever had to face this type of decision, and are you a cochlear implant recipient, if you aren't, YOU are the one that has no idea what the procedure entails. Don't make this about ASL and deaf culture, Cochlear implants are an option to a person who wants it, everyone else can just go about their lives, what business is it of theirs?
i dont get it? why is there a problem with the treatment of deafness. i mean, its just like curing any other disease or anomaly in the body... if someone could come up with a good enough argument against it, i wouldnt mind at all :D
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i like this video it really shows it however why would a deaf person want to change who they are it still would not even be the same as a hearing person. God made u just the way u ought to be.
i agree god did make u the way u should be but for my cousin that was born deaf and goin completely blind this is a ray of hope...imagine a life never knowing how to speak cause u couldnt hear and then totaly blind as well...thats not a life my friend
uhm im hard of hearing and i have something called nerve damaged. i have no clue wat that means but is there any hope? are cochlear implants possibly the answer?
In order to have a cochlear implant, I think you have to have Sensorineural hearing loss or something similar. If you are seriously considering it, if you go for hearing tests occasionally, ask your audiologist.
well that can be true but at times it can also be a curse... at least for people who are not Deaf from birth because they must become acustomed to the lack of hearing...
I have excellent hearing and cherish being able to hear music; however, there is now so much noise pollution in our culture (e.g. boom cars, leaf blowers, jet planes, etc) that I often stop my ears up with good quality ear plugs when I am outside in the warmer months. Sometimes late at night when it is dead quiet I just sit and savor it.
Who invented this Cochlear surgery? A Hearing Dr!!!
The best thing to do for your child is learn and teach them ASL!!!!
loveHuera81 1 year ago
Stem Cell > cochlear implant
human + machine = 40% success
organ + Metal = Cyborg
Human + Stem cell = 80-100% success
organ + new organ = 100% human
Don't be IDIOT! School for deaf are available since 1830s!!!! don't fuckin put a machine thing on your child!
Zeylouesis 1 year ago
WOW this is toatally AWESOME
i love studying medical science
10/10, cochlear implants are mega cool
danieldwyer007 2 years ago
My cochlear never fully developed in my right ear. I'm fifteen and my family still worries about me crossing the streets. I never know which direction a sound is coming from and my hearing gets interrupted by the slightest sound. I try maybe about 30 times harder to hear than normal people and it comes with no result. So, I don't think someone who's never had to deal with it shouldn't talk about how wrong it is and how hearing isn't that great. Try walking around with an ear plugged. it sucks
namaste695 2 years ago
I have Meniere's disease and have lost about half the hearing in my left ear over the past four years. I fear that if it keeps progressing soon I will be deaf in that ear. I'm starting to look into cochlear implants as an option.
plapnab 2 years ago
@plapnab
It definitely is an option, don't just research on the internet though. Ask your doctor/s and let them give you information!
lovelycaitie89 1 year ago
Coreysec, I got your message in my inbox. Ok you wear a cochlear implant and you like it and prefer it. That is your choice and you have every right to do to your body what you want.
However, my comments are related to parents making a decision to fundamentally alter their perfectly normal deaf children and simply believe it should be the persons own choice as to whether they want a cochlear implant... no one else's... not even their parents.
matt83au 2 years ago
Deafness is not something that should be cured because it is not a disability. Deaf people know how to communicate using Sign Language and people should stop trying to cure a totally normal human condition. Deaf is just as normal as hearing and hearing is just as normal as deaf.
matt83au 2 years ago
i dont agree with that, deafness is a disability, its a loss of a sense that normal people have. and i think that every deaf person is entitled to be treated and live and enjoy life just as hearing people do. so ur telling me that blindness for instance or perhaps the loss of touch senstation isnt a disability? i respect ur point of view, but for me i find it hard to agree with
Wiggyify 2 years ago
Sorry but you do not have to be able to hear things in order to live a full and productive life. While deaf people might not be able to hear sounds, they have a visually enriched life and can communicate using the various forms of Sign Language used around the world. I am a hearing person but if I were to go deaf tomorrow I would not seek a cochlear implant or any form of technology to bring back my hearing, I would simply accept my condition as normal and natural and live with it!
matt83au 2 years ago
And yes I am learning sign language as a hearing person because I believe in equality and have decided that I would like to communicate with deaf people using their language... just like some people learn Spanish to communicate with spanish speaking people in a non-spanish speaking country... I will soon be a bilingual person and more people should be like this rather than focusing on CURING something that need not be cured.
matt83au 2 years ago
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Coreysec 2 years ago
@matt83au
So, what if your vision deteriorated tomorrow and you needed glasses. Your saying that you wouldn't get glasses and live not being able to see as well as you could if you got glasses? That's what it sounds like to me. I agree that you don't have to hear things to live life, but what if you were a child, a deaf child who WANTED to hear? Would you consider your quality of life good if you were in a mainstream public school and you were missing out on conversation and playing with peers?
lovelycaitie89 1 year ago
@lovelycaitie89 > First of all... are you deaf? if not, you can't possibly understand what if feels like to go through a surgery like this. Wearing glasses and putting on plastic things on your face NOT IN in your ear is totally different which BTW this "Cochlear" surgery takes years to get use to and is VERY painful. The best thing to do for your children is learn and teach them ASL! Have you seen Marlee Matlin? She's accomplished so much. There is NOTHING that woman can't do & she's DEAF
loveHuera81 1 year ago
@loveHuera81
No, I am not deaf but my sister is and she is a cochlear implant recipient. I have seen first hand what she went through. My parents raised her to believe that she can do anything. They asked her if she wanted a cochlear implant at the age of ten and she said yes. We had a load of crap from the deaf community, but my parents ignored it because it was what she WANTED. My sister is now a university student and doing quite well. I have seen Marlee on things and I do have respect for
lovelycaitie89 1 year ago
@loveHuera81 I have incredible respect for her, but my sister did not want that path to be HER LIFE. She wanted something different. It should be about what works for the INDIVIDUAL, not what everybody else wants. My sister would NEVER go back to hearing aids, EVER. The only regret she has is not getting it done sooner. I am fine with ASL and even know a few phrases, but my sister is oral. I don't believe it cures deafness, there is no cure. I see it as an enhancement available to who wants it
lovelycaitie89 1 year ago
@loveHuera81
And now that you know my stance, I just have to ask the same question you posed to me, are you deaf? Have you ever had to face this type of decision, and are you a cochlear implant recipient, if you aren't, YOU are the one that has no idea what the procedure entails. Don't make this about ASL and deaf culture, Cochlear implants are an option to a person who wants it, everyone else can just go about their lives, what business is it of theirs?
lovelycaitie89 1 year ago
@matt83au way to go.. god bless u
ekpoker 1 year ago
i dont get it? why is there a problem with the treatment of deafness. i mean, its just like curing any other disease or anomaly in the body... if someone could come up with a good enough argument against it, i wouldnt mind at all :D
Wiggyify 2 years ago
that is pure evil invention.
jdpjrdude1 2 years ago
Don't be ridicioulous.
matelue 2 years ago
Give people opportunities to experience sound. Pure genius more like it. Thank you Graeme Clark for changing the lives of so many people.
Peteb362 2 years ago 2
I totally agree with you... sort of like a modern invention to wipe out a perfectly normal human characteristic and cultural trait!
matt83au 2 years ago
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i like this video it really shows it however why would a deaf person want to change who they are it still would not even be the same as a hearing person. God made u just the way u ought to be.
mintea04 3 years ago
i agree god did make u the way u should be but for my cousin that was born deaf and goin completely blind this is a ray of hope...imagine a life never knowing how to speak cause u couldnt hear and then totaly blind as well...thats not a life my friend
leoc5 2 years ago
@leoc5
I agree! this device can make a person's quality of life a lot better!
lovelycaitie89 1 year ago
i have an cochlear implant
i dont like it
RYNOREAP3R 3 years ago
I apploud you Deaf is good I like deaf more than hearing...but I'm hearing
SHAKOORK 3 years ago
Can I ask why?
lozzielovesyou 3 years ago
I have a implant!!!
Its amazing to hear although its different than hearing person!! I love it!!
sexymisexy 3 years ago
uhm im hard of hearing and i have something called nerve damaged. i have no clue wat that means but is there any hope? are cochlear implants possibly the answer?
brandonthefatty 3 years ago
NO! they are bad!
SHAKOORK 3 years ago
@brandonthefatty
In order to have a cochlear implant, I think you have to have Sensorineural hearing loss or something similar. If you are seriously considering it, if you go for hearing tests occasionally, ask your audiologist.
lovelycaitie89 1 year ago
Im 11 year old and I can much better than hearing aid
6328579 4 years ago
yes i too have a implant.. i execrate it... ;(
Lillywaterr 4 years ago
mm.. ugly
mm.. i have a implant
mm..
i dont like use
Reyneeru 4 years ago
Good Deaf person Deafness isn't a disability its a blessing
SHAKOORK 3 years ago
well that can be true but at times it can also be a curse... at least for people who are not Deaf from birth because they must become acustomed to the lack of hearing...
Xunethqualn 3 years ago 2
I have excellent hearing and cherish being able to hear music; however, there is now so much noise pollution in our culture (e.g. boom cars, leaf blowers, jet planes, etc) that I often stop my ears up with good quality ear plugs when I am outside in the warmer months. Sometimes late at night when it is dead quiet I just sit and savor it.
BUNGLEJYME 3 years ago