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- From: Daniel.Laflin@f98.n374.z1.fidonet.org (Daniel Laflin)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: New Born Deafie
- Message-ID: <25713@handicap.news>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:23:42 GMT
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- [This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
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- AS>the cochlear implant but at my age now, I think I would go
- AS>crazy hearing sounds I've never heard and besides, I've accepted
- AS>my deafness and do quite well as I am.
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- Grin.... In My case it would be hearing sounds I havent heard in years,
- If i had the implanyt I might or might not remember some sounds off the
- bat... thats why the need for the no lipreading exercises.
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- Id guess the implant would bother one who never heard fully, and isnt a
- child, a point on children: they are in a learning period, the minds
- growing, its easay to learn new things, at a certain age, we just cannot
- then learn new things easy.
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