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- From: Daniel.Laflin@f98.n374.z1.fidonet.org (Daniel Laflin)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: New Born Deafie
- Message-ID: <25712@handicap.news>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:23:35 GMT
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- Index Number: 25712
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- [This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
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- ST> SC> ALLOWED TO LIPREAD!!!! THE therapist covers his or her lips with
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- ST>Er, Sam, I believe that is a standard method of forcing the person to
- ST>try to recognize what sounds they do get. Once the recognization of
- ST>sounds becomes automatic, the person would normally be expected to
- ST>lipread in real life. The theory is suppose to be that if you
- ST>lipread during training you won't concentrate on the sounds as much.
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- Agreed... especially in cases of those who were deafened after learned
- to hear, i lost it at 7, if i had a implant put in, They would have to
- try to get me to recognize as much as i could as i did BEFORE i learned
- to Lipread.
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- No One I believe will hear all as thay did b4, but the point is to learn
- to or relearn, some sounds, There is a difference with P B M words
- hearing wise, not lipreading wise, being able to distingish some sounds
- would enhance the lipreading ability.
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- The only reason I may be unable to have a implant is due to a batch of
- colymicin based drugs that destroyed the nerve, ie: streptomycin and
- related.
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- The damage could have also been at the hearing center of the brain, or
- in the nerve path, so a implant is useless if the pathways are
- compromised, in only the caes of the pathway being ok and the damage
- being only in the Cochlear, I think is when a implant may help.
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