FDA Cochlear implant warning

Another CI-meningitis link warning from the FDA?!

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News & Politics

Tags:

• grumpy
• sign
• language
• BSL
• cochlear
• implants

[berrydirl]

The CI can be removed and replaced. the problem when you get a replacement CI is that in many cases it looses it's effectiveness. We just studied this in our ASL class. This would really be bad for people who have not learned another form of communication besides just relying upon the CI.

My child is deaf and we feel it is far more important to have language at her fingertips and thus we're all learning ASL. If she wants she can have one when she's older if she qualifies.

[tstill1988]

@123nickiv

Not true, the CI can be removed and replaced when it fails. The reason for a second is for bi-lateral processors. :)

[AnitaByronofSL]

Look, the surgery has too many risks for the child to not have a say. Cis should ONLY happen in children who are old enough to understand what they personally want. Not because it will make them 'fit in' with their family. When a person has a baby they are expected to adapt their lives around the child NOT the child adapt to them. And this was written by a hearing woman who was more welcomed by the deaf community than the hearing.

[angilberto1]

Vai tomar te cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

[123nickiv]

@dricedt Point of clairification... The CI cannot be removed or replaced once it dies in approx. 15 years. That is why many people get a CI on one ear, then years later (after it does not work as well) decide to have the surgery in the opposite ear. Now if you were speaking of the outter piece, that dan turn the device on and off then you are correct. Yes that will come off.

[kplewisvox]

@abtruth That is hands down the stupidest thing I have ever read. The fact that you admit that it is sarcasm is even worse. You have an autistic child, and you're making jokes about it? Nice.

[lillyadamski]

@abtruth I don't understand how you can compare "Deaf culture" to "Autistic culture". Autism is a developmental disorder where as being deaf is just... well being deaf. Being deaf doesn't mean that one can't develop social skills normally. Also, your sarcasm is really awful

[abtruth]

thats ridiculous.. by the time they are mature enough to make a decision for themselves the chances of them developing the skills necessary to participate normally in society are gone.

Its a parents obligation to do what is best for their child..

take your argument to its logical conclusion - don't give kids glasses for myopia, just let them fail at school and join the "blind culture"

[abtruth]

i was being sarcastic of course.. i would give my son the cure if one was available.

[purplemutantas]

@abtruth They are working hard to find a cure for autism. If they succeed, people like me and your son will no longer exist. Really it all comes down to Eugenics. They want to eliminate all people with disabilities. If you are born different enough, they want to make sure there are no more people like you.

I am glad you don't want to cure your son.