Guest guest Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 hi michelle oh i know what you mean.. you want to be there with him the first three days of activation and jsut watch as he discovers the world of sounds. really exciting. chauncey is prelingually deaf right? so for him environmental sounds are going to be the easiest for him to hear and some are going to be unpleasant to him to hear like...running water, toilet flushing and moving plastic bags that crinkle when you put the tie wraps to preserve bread, etc. fireworks, oh boy he might jsut want to turn off his ci then, they just might be too loud . maybe u want to sit far from fireworks. i think other cool things will be phone ringing, doorbell, dog barking , maybe the microwave Beeping. but you know what, michelle. chauncey gonna hear some thing s and not know what they are if no one is around to tell him. he might have to " save up all his sounds " and wait for you to come home and then ask u to identify them for him. alice had a good suggestion to go for a walk, maybe he will hear the birds or crickets in the evening. cars will sound loud as do trucks. hoepfully he can hear children playing laughing. if he doesnt hear those things right away thats ok, the audie may give him a very narrow range of sounds, as for some folks who have not heard much, or not used to hearing aids need to start off with narrow range of sounds, and even then it can give him a headache. ( this happened to one ci person i know who never used hearing aids and was prelingually deaf , very slowly increased her range of sounds she could tolerate but suffered headaches for first few weeks ) if he doesnt hear as much as you hoped he would after activation, not to worry , he will hear alittle more at each mapping. it will all come in due time so like julie says there will be more " firsts " for u to share with him. and what about his second mapping ? that s usually scheduled within a few days of first activation. cant wait to see how it goes. i also was so terribe nervous before hookup and could hardly sleep the night before... i guess the biggest fear is... i hope it works and not disappointing. keep us posted. joni prelingual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 In a message dated 6/29/2004 5:39:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Jonikt4@... writes: chauncey is prelingually deaf right? so for him environmental sounds are going to be the easiest for him to hear and some are going to be unpleasant to him to hear like...running water, toilet flushing and moving plastic bags that crinkle when you put the tie wraps to preserve bread, etc. I AGREE! Being prelingual deaf too, I find it easiest to use VISUAL CUE to match what I thought I heard. Take car going by, you hear, you look around, see only car, nothing else, you will know it is a car that making the noise. It could take him 2, maybe 3 visual cues before his brain will recognize this certain sounds coming from car before he thinks of it. Same true for speech discrimination, if he has been an excellent lipreader. sometime down the road, he might connect which sounds go with which words as he lipread, but it take longer to learn than environmental sounds. I have been activated 6 months now and I still depend on lipreading but I am picking up discriminations (bit and bit). But the thing is, I had been wearing hearing aid all my life, hearing at about 65dB aided at 250 to 750 or 1,000 htz (nothing above it), with " not so hot " hearing all my life without discrimination, it helped me as I learned speech as I lipread. Like Joni said, the hearing range at first is very narrow, do not expect alot at first. Good luck! Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 yes, he is prelingually profoundly deaf from birth. we were just talking about that very thing, and he is much more aware than i thought as he told me that he thought it would take a long time to understand speech without some kind of hinting, weither that be lipreading or signing or both. but he also knows that just hearing all of everything is going to be a huge adjustment and blessing all at the same time. i am gonna print this in hope's his big head will take the advice of standing far from the bang, and we may even be able to go to a nice park and view from afar and still hear it! as here in Philly you can hear them all night from whever you are! will definate post as soon as i can tomorrow. have a great night m ;-) > hi michelle > > oh i know what you mean.. you want to be there with him the first three days of activation and jsut watch as he discovers the world of sounds. really exciting. > > chauncey is prelingually deaf right? so for him environmental sounds are going to be the easiest for him to hear and some are going to be unpleasant to him to hear like...running water, toilet flushing and moving plastic bags that crinkle when you put the tie wraps to preserve bread, etc. > > fireworks, oh boy he might jsut want to turn off his ci then, they just might be too loud . maybe u want to sit far from fireworks. > > i think other cool things will be phone ringing, doorbell, dog barking , maybe the microwave Beeping. but you know what, michelle. chauncey gonna hear some thing s and not know what they are if no one is around to tell him. he might have to " save up all his sounds " and wait for you to come home and then ask u to identify them for him. alice had a good suggestion to go for a walk, maybe he will hear the birds or crickets in the evening. cars will sound loud as do trucks. hoepfully he can hear children playing laughing. > > if he doesnt hear those things right away thats ok, the audie may give him a very narrow range of sounds, as for some folks who have not heard much, or not used to hearing aids need to start off with narrow range of sounds, and even then it can give him a headache. ( this happened to one ci person i know who never used hearing aids and was prelingually deaf , very slowly increased her range of sounds she could tolerate but suffered headaches for first few weeks ) > > if he doesnt hear as much as you hoped he would after activation, not to worry , he will hear alittle more at each mapping. it will all come in due time so like julie says there will be more " firsts " for u to share with him. and what about his second mapping ? that s usually scheduled within a few days of first activation. > > cant wait to see how it goes. i also was so terribe nervous before hookup and could hardly sleep the night before... i guess the biggest fear is... i hope it works and not disappointing. > > keep us posted. > > joni > prelingual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 oh i hope he can say the same thing one day! and i hope he can quikly recognize me calling from my bubble!!! (bath ;-)) > > In a message dated 6/29/2004 7:47:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > cherrys_shorty@y... writes: > > he told me that he thought it would take a long > time to understand speech without some kind of hinting, weither that > be lipreading or signing or both. > > > > Good for him for having that expection! I thought it would take me a > while, but I find common sayings (good morning, have a good day, thank you, etc) > are easier to catch. First time I caught myself hearing " have a good day " > from a store clerk after i turned and left him, i answered " thank you " without > thinking,,,,,,,, next I knew,, i stopped, and wondered,,,,,,,, did he say it?? > > Anyone else agree? > > Lee > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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