Cochlear Implants

Clarissa - posted on 01/02/2011

A wonderful place to research implants is www.hearingjourney.com this is a free online forum you can ask ???'s and meet other parents with CI kiddos. My son is 2 and was implanted at 10 months old. Feel free to ask any quesitons you have and I will do my best to answer them! Good Luck!

Allie - posted on 01/01/2011

www.hearingjourney.com
ANOTHER awesome website...i had my mentor go with me to all the apoitments at childrens that was tooo helpful..

Peggy - posted on 01/01/2011

Thanks everyone for the information. Since my daughter is 22, I let her make the decision. The biggest issue that she had was that she may not be able to ride the roller coasters!! She did opt out of getting the implant and instead we bought a top of the line hearing aid. She is very happy with the new aid! Thanks Autumn - your comments were actually what I feared - she has already developed her speech to the max and refuses to use sign language so I think she made a good choice!! Happy New Year!

Allie - posted on 12/29/2010

http://montanawinans.blogspot.com/
we are beginning that journey as well...my daughter is 13....
hearingjourney is where i found comfort

Autumn - posted on 11/28/2010

I have taken many classes at my school and we have watched many movies talked with the Deaf community although I have never delt with this personally, I do know that getting a CI done at a later age there will be a speech problem. And the CI may not work as well as u might think it will. it is not a fix it plan. I am not sure what I would do if it were my baby but I know for a fact if my child has already developed her speech I would not do it. I would enroll them into a sign language class. Sign language is a beautiful language and I just love it!! Good luck I am sure u will help her make the right desion for her

Robin - posted on 03/28/2010

Hello,

I have a four and a half year old son who has had a nucleus freedom inplant for approx four years. He has done wonderful with it. I have heard different outcomes from adults in my community who has had the surgery. It takes a long time to get used to the difference in adults is what i have heard. best of luck to you

ROBIN

Katie - posted on 02/25/2010

My 21month old just got bilateral implants on Feb 11, 2010 - The surgery was just under 4 hours, and we were given the option to bring her home that night. We opted to stay in the hospital over night, since she is so little. She was back to herself 3 days later, and has had an amazing recovery. She received the Nucleus 5 from Cochlear America. Make sure you do your research and homework with the three implant companies - Advanced Bionics, is the newest of the three, and has had some pretty serious back to back recalls in the past couple of years. A lot of people have the Advanced Bionics implants, and are happy with them, but from my research and talking with other moms of kids with implants, the AB products have been more of a pain in the back side than Cochlear America and Medel products.

The surgery isn't bad - and the doctors are so good about everything. I was terrified that something would go wrong, but it's such a small procedure and it's not invasive at all.

If you want, you can private message me, and we can talk more, about the whole process if you like.

Brenna - posted on 12/18/2009

My 21 month old daughter received the Nucleus5 back in October and had it activated in November. I agree with Becki, check out the website. It is very helpful.

Becki - posted on 11/18/2009

My 3 Year old son is about to recieve his first implant on December 22nd..The new implant system out is called Nucleus5 the website is www.cochlearamericas.com/NucleusIndications..there you can research, request information, and they have a community that you can join that has been extremly helpful in helping us make our decision