Comments on: Sweet Nothing in My Ear http://www.cantrememberdiddly.com/2008/04/21/sweet-nothing-in-my-ear/ Forgetting everything practically instantaneously since, well, birth... blaming it on ADD since 2001. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:56:56 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: browneyedgirl65 http://www.cantrememberdiddly.com/2008/04/21/sweet-nothing-in-my-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-2207 browneyedgirl65 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:55:00 +0000 http://www.cantrememberdiddly.com/2008/04/21/sweet-nothing-in-my-ear/#comment-2207 It is an interesting issue. One thing to remember is that CI's are not magic. They do fail to work as intended on a fair number of people.<br/><br/>Here's the real problem as I see it though. CI's usually come with a requirement of Audio Visual Therapy. Well AVT *explicitly prohibits teaching signing to the child*. <br/><br/>So, um, if you have a CI put into your child, and she or he is one of those for whom it does not work, congratulations. You have now whipped past the timeframe in which it's critical for kids to learn how to communicate (between birth and about three to four years of age). That kind of deprivation leads to all kinds of communication and cognitive issues.<br/><br/>So I say, by all means get the CI if you like. But have your child learn ASL *too*. Then he doesn't have to risk playing catchup for the rest of his life :-(<br/><br/>Obviously, just one POV. There are many, many sides to this, like you pointed out. I will have to see this movie at some point. It is an interesting issue. One thing to remember is that CI’s are not magic. They do fail to work as intended on a fair number of people.

Here’s the real problem as I see it though. CI’s usually come with a requirement of Audio Visual Therapy. Well AVT *explicitly prohibits teaching signing to the child*.

So, um, if you have a CI put into your child, and she or he is one of those for whom it does not work, congratulations. You have now whipped past the timeframe in which it’s critical for kids to learn how to communicate (between birth and about three to four years of age). That kind of deprivation leads to all kinds of communication and cognitive issues.

So I say, by all means get the CI if you like. But have your child learn ASL *too*. Then he doesn’t have to risk playing catchup for the rest of his life :-(

Obviously, just one POV. There are many, many sides to this, like you pointed out. I will have to see this movie at some point.

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