Guest guest Posted January 3, 2006 Report Posted January 3, 2006 Hi Gayle, Pre-lingual means you lost hearing before attaining language. Like a new born who is deaf, or a child who loses hearing before age 2 or so. Post Lingual means you lost your hearing AFTER attaining language. A person who lost hearing at age 29 or so, but was oral, knows spoken language and so forth would be considered post lingually deafened. Different outcomes for pre and post lingual. With pre lingually deafened people, they have to put sound to every word they know (but have never heard). With post linguaglly deafened people, you just have to learn what words sound like now. Hope that helps. Good luck with your eval. Do you know Flipper? The Original Already in two days I have learned a lot from members. I am curious, what does Postlingual mean? Dolly Dolphin waving my fins to Quote
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2006 Report Posted January 3, 2006 Thank you . At least I now know what I am, lol - Pre-lingual, since I was born Hard of Hearing. Mom noticed I was not speaking like other children at age 2 but the ear, nose and throat doctor told her not to worry, that I was just slow. Our family doctor when Mom told him her concerned said I was Hard of Hearing so I was fitted with hearing aids around age 3 or 4. BTW I was adopted shortly after birth. My adopted Mom would never know that I would eventually started losing vision. My adopted Dad was to know I had Night Blindness but not the blindness part. Mom died 1968, Dad died 1986. I was diagnosed RP in 1989. To think I drove a car for 10 years with Night Blindness 1963 - 1973 at night time until diagnosed with Night Blindness in 1973, drove two more years in daylight then quit on my own as I took bus to work. The things the eye doctor don't tell their patient. Oh isn't life great! I have a cartoon going in my head right now having people and animals climbing the buildings or light poles when I am driving by at night time. To this day I hated hearing aid. I only wear the hearing aid when out with people, meetings, etc. but once I am home out goes the hearing aid (I just wear one in left ear which hear better then the right ear). Dolly Dolphin wrote: Hi Gayle, Pre-lingual means you lost hearing before attaining language. Like a new born who is deaf, or a child who loses hearing before age 2 or so. Post Lingual means you lost your hearing AFTER attaining language. A person who lost hearing at age 29 or so, but was oral, knows spoken language and so forth would be considered post lingually deafened. Different outcomes for pre and post lingual. With pre lingually deafened people, they have to put sound to every word they know (but have never heard). With post linguaglly deafened people, you just have to learn what words sound like now. Hope that helps. Good luck with your eval. Do you know Flipper? Quote
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2006 Report Posted January 12, 2006 Hello Dolly Dolphin: You're welcome! Don't be sorry as I have been there with huge e-mail messages in my mailbox. No, we are 15 months apart and it has been the most wonderful CI journey we have ever experienced. BEA stands for Bionic Ear Association. Debbie Auria-07/03 Prelingual BEA Volunteer Hi Debbie, Thank you for your input. Sorry for the late replied but had over 300 emails so I am slowly catching up I think. Wow, both your brother and you had the implant same day, in the morning and with the same doctor. Are you both same age? What does BEA stands for please? Dolly Dolphin Quote
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