Guest guest Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 OK..I'm going to jump in here on this subject. Evel - I'd like to ask you to take responsibility for gathering this infomation. Very soon, I will be revealing something new and exciting for CI Hear and I'd like to see this information as part of the project that is pending. We have a database section on the listserv that you might be able to use to collect the data or perhaps you have another way you'd like to do this. Let us know and we'll see what develops. Alice > You just made my point with your statement exactly! > " I'm given the knob to turn and adjust the loudness and softness of > my electrodes myself " I know of one other person that claimed > they " used to " let him adjust his own maps.. > I have read a million different ways that they do mappings.. Here at > work we have what we call Procedures. Their main purpose is so that > everyone does it the same way and then when we find ways to make it > better it gets updated. Letting every Audie do his or her own thing > does not benefit us.. > > I have read so many different ways that they program CI's and not one > matches the way I have been programed so far..That's all I was really > getting at. I am not trying to come up with a new speech strategy.. > They have people working on those. > And like you I would not trade my CI for all the HA's in the world > :-) > I say if they come up with a consistant/better way to set up maps > then we would all benefit IMO. > I was hoping for other to share their thoughts on mappings. > > Cheers, > Evel > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 Alice, I am all yours girl! :-) Soon I will start 12 hr Day/night shifts (Nov 29th) and I will have some free time when on night shifts to help out here anyway you want.. What we need is to gather all the different ways audies are mapping people and then maybe come up with good and bad points from all these? For me, I had maps dumped from BWP to 3G, a big no no according to most on here. Also my Audie will not allow me to do a sweep of tones since my second? map with BWP. Never with the 3g. Said it will mess up my map and its to hard to do with the machine as the BWP has a direct hook up. Basically it looks like the battery for it only it has a cable that hooks up to box with 22 lights and his PC. He has also frowned on me wanting to participate in a study in Syracuse NY that is aimed at getting the MOST you can from your CI thru advanced mappings. His Quote " do you really want to go thru all the trouble to gain 3-4% better hearing? " YES, I would do it for 1-2% better :-) Let me know what you need from me. Cheers, Evel P.S. My brother is going for a new map today.. > OK..I'm going to jump in here on this subject. > > Evel - I'd like to ask you to take responsibility for gathering this infomation. Very soon, I will be revealing something new and exciting for CI Hear and I'd like to see this information as part of the project that is pending. We have a database section on the listserv that you might be able to use to collect the data or perhaps you have another way you'd like to do this. Let us know and we'll see what develops. > > Alice > > > > > > You just made my point with your statement exactly! > > " I'm given the knob to turn and adjust the loudness and softness of > > my electrodes myself " I know of one other person that claimed > > they " used to " let him adjust his own maps.. > > I have read a million different ways that they do mappings.. Here at > > work we have what we call Procedures. Their main purpose is so that > > everyone does it the same way and then when we find ways to make it > > better it gets updated. Letting every Audie do his or her own thing > > does not benefit us.. > > > > I have read so many different ways that they program CI's and not one > > matches the way I have been programed so far..That's all I was really > > getting at. I am not trying to come up with a new speech strategy.. > > They have people working on those. > > And like you I would not trade my CI for all the HA's in the world > > :-) > > I say if they come up with a consistant/better way to set up maps > > then we would all benefit IMO. > > I was hoping for other to share their thoughts on mappings. > > > > Cheers, > > Evel > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 Evel, Wow, If I were in your situation, I'd be looking for an audiologist who would work with me to get the best mapping you can and to get the most you can out of your ci! if your insurance allows it, it's ok to find an audiologist you're comfortable with. I was implanted at a teaching university and the audi's there really encourage doing research testing.. Even if it doesn't benefit us, it will certainly benefit others down the road as the researchers study the results of all the testing. I've done a few of these studies and have learned to listen better just from that. When I go for mappings, I'm always given an electrode sweep, voltage compliance testing and the works. My audiologist allows up to two hour sessions for clients to work out maps, I've never had a map dumped from one processor to another either, however, amongst the audiologists in my ci center, some of them program by using the knob to adjust electrodes while others use the computer arrows..I am told the computer arrows allow for just a bit more fine tuning than turning and clicking the knob does.. sometimes I think that bit of " extra " might be all one needs to make the difference between a good mapping and a great one! I think this is a great study to get going on.. Maybe we'll make a difference, maybe we won't; but at least we will have tried! Have a great day. Hope things go well for your brothers mapping today! Hugs, Silly MI For me, I had maps dumped from > BWP to 3G, a big no no according to most on here. Also my Audie will > not allow me to do a sweep of tones since my second? map with BWP. > Never with the 3g. Said it will mess up my map and its to hard to do > with the machine as the BWP has a direct hook up. Basically it looks > like the battery for it only it has a cable that hooks up to box with > 22 lights and his PC. > He has also frowned on me wanting to participate in a study in > Syracuse NY that is aimed at getting the MOST you can from your CI > thru advanced mappings. His Quote " do you really want to go thru all > the trouble to gain 3-4% better hearing? " YES, I would do it for 1- 2% > better :-) > Let me know what you need from me. > > Cheers, > Evel > P.S. My brother is going for a new map today.. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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