http://www.deaftoday.com/v3/archives/2006/06/cochlear_implan_28.html
Cochlear implants open up a new world of hearing
This is the title saying that cochlear implants open up a new world of hearing is wrong.
Hearing world steal more deaf children from our world. You ask yourself what is hearing world? Why cochlear implants steal deaf children to their world? Hearing world do not like imperfect, and want children to be perfect so they steal them.
Children get hurt. Think about it.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
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John - I feel I must reply to the comment you left on http://mysontom.com - my blog about my son's devastating illness and his life since.
Tom was born able to hear and, at 20 months old, he had meningitis which almost killed him and left him deaf. He found being deaf confusing and upsetting, as did we and, as much as we tried to reduce it, it put up a barrier between our son and us - the people in his life he needs to love him and help him grow. While our love for him would ensure we would have done our very best for him regardless(we started to sign with him and found out everything we could), his cochlear implant has removed that enormous hurdle.
If you read the rest of my blog you will see that Tom is incredibly happy and is loving what the implant brings him. We made the choice for Tom because of his age - the after-effects of meningitis meant that, by delaying until Tom could choose for himself, we would actually be taking away the option as the implant would not have the same benefit or may not be able to be fitted. This is one of the responsibilities of parenthood - to be as informed as possible and to make those choices. I am confident that ours has been right for Tom.
I agree!
The hearing world is the whole world! I did not give my child a CI to "steal them" from the Deaf community. I gave it to her, to give her more tools for life...that's it.
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