"FDA: Shocking Results on Cochlear Implant Stats"

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Here are shocking truths on success rate for all Deaf people who use Cochlear Implants... Our search for answer is far from over!

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Education

Tags:

• Deaf
• Cochlear Implant
• children's rights
• ASL
• CI
• ownership
• FDA
• American Sign Language
• AGUABO
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[gwenxion]

So I ask you .... everywhere I read many information : with blue highlight says FDA APPROVED. what is it.? So I checked FDA information with CI no exist and also Warning risk etc on FDA. I asked for statistics for Ci .. There is none. I knew something wrong is Fishy !

[aguabo]

@gwenxion exactly, same thing with my findings. FDA do list many different risks and I received emails from all who have CIs starting at young, they experience mild to severe side effects. Common thing I see is seizure.

[phaze101200oo]

I wear cochlear implants and am smart enough to know that a child implanted at a early age will have much better experience than someone who waited until later in life. I was lucky to have lost my hearing over time, but totally understand why so many people are against it..... but have the truly been informed?

[aguabo]

@phaze101200oo I am not against you like many others do. did you experience any side effect?

[69DJGENY69]

Hola a todos!, Veo que todo el mundo esta en contra de Implante clocear!. Y yo soy sordo y llevo un implante y me va muy bien!. Tampoco me he echo daño, ni me duele y ni me molesta. Ya que puedo escuchar todo y va fenomenal. Aunque parece mentira que mi otro oido va subiendo un 5% de audición y mi medico me dijeron que es imposible. Sabes como puede oir mucho mejor? Pon cascos, pon música a todo volumen, con el implante puesto. Y asi al reproducir la musica, iguala a los 2 oidos. Probad. Bye

[aguabo]

@69DJGENY69 Hola, yo no estoy contra usted como una persona con injerto de la cóclea. Si trabaja bien para usted entonces gran. Es uno de las gente afortunadas que experimenta ni daña ni los efectos secundario. Le deseo buena suerte en su viaje.

[kkmarue]

I'm a grad student in Early Oral Intervention for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. I did the same search as you and was indeed surprised to see that wikipedia had something about a "low success rate". However, upon further inquiry, I saw that the low success rate referred to individuals with an acoustic neuroma. Because a CI stimulates the auditory nerve directly, people with a damaged nerve won't benefit from a CI like others. It's important to look at the reason behind the facts.

[fairysign1]

I there are stories both of success and of failure, the same with everything. If it works for one person it may not work for another. What I don't like, is when the hospitals who sell the implants aren't informing the parents about sign language, Deaf culture, or exposing them to any Deaf adults. They only tell them that their child will be "normal" "successful" with the implant. They do not talk to the parents about Deaf is "normal" and MANY successfull Deaf people! Hospitals are for profit.

[silentbluerose]

I looked at the links in your google search. If you read the full sentence it states that in certain deaf individuals success rates will be low due to some sort of complication - hence the tests they do first to make sure the individual is suitable before implantion occurs.

I'm not for or against the cochlear implant business, I just think one needs to be careful not to take words out of context. But you are right that they do need to make the statistics more transparent to the public.

[aguabo]

@tincancompany =D smile. Believe me, I've been trying to find valid reports based on those studies. There was only one valuable research I found at Indiana Univeristy, Dr. David Pisoni. good info about "Executive Functioning" on each child with CI, their ability to function by age 30? I've been putting off on "follow up" vlog. Soon - I promise. Oh - while I searched for answers, many doors are closed on CI areas. It's starting to fade' as more and more doctors and scientists r into stem cells.

[ASLorENG]

@phaze101200oo You mentioned you're smart enough; to know that their name isn't yours. The people around them aren't the same people around you. To be clear; CI doesn't help you smart, you just learned everything to become more of what you already are.

Imagine... England won American's land in 1815 and what does it look like today? Big different and so the real you was already gone and you will never know the real you without a CI. Whatever she said, is fighting to save all of you.

[gwenxion]

I met adult who volunteered to take cochlear implant: headache and static at the most of time. Others said some not function at all and had surgery few times. It is not working and leave it and nothing to do with it. That is shocking information from them . Nothing more and wish to ask children who can speak out but sadden they did not know the exposure how to do is speak out. I pray one strong child( with ci survivor can bring up the action.)

[nanzilu]

@69DJGENY69

Tampoco informan los efectos secundarios y la realidad del asunto es q si los padres kieren un nene oyente no se puede puesto que con o sin el implante siempre seran sordos. Me da gusto que a ud le funcione el implante

[nanzilu]

@69DJGENY69

hola,creo que no es que todo el mundo este en contra de los implantes cocleares, simplemente el mundo medico no esta al tanto del mundo Sordo-cultural. Tambien el problema es q la mayoria de veces no se les informa la realidad del asunto-el trabajo, la dedication de los padres, y el hecho de que no a todas las personas les funcionan. =)