Re: Double Array (and Implant candidacy)

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-- sorry to hear about the ossification. I wish I knew more

about the double array! I do know that some surgeons can skillfully

get around ossification with regular implants, but I suppose that

depends on the extent of it. Did you ask the same question on

cicircle?

Robin -- Was it a garden variety audiologist who told you this (see

below) or an implant center? If it was garden variety, while what

she or he said may have been true a few years ago, it isn't

necessarily true today. Implant candidacy criteria are constantly

changing and becoming more inclusive because of the good results

seen with implants. (With an implant, my son's aided audiogram is

20 dB pretty much straight across, with some random frequencies at

25 dB and others, including 6000 Hz, at 15 dB.)

It might be worth it for you to talk with an implant center, if that

isn't where they told you about her non-candidacy. In my

experience, non-implant audiologists are not always up on the latest

when it comes to cochlear implants and who is or is not a candidate.

Our hearing aid earmold audiologist has asked me some very odd

questions about 's CI processor, making it clear to me that

she is very poorly educated about implants in general -- like she

thought that switching from a body-worn processor to a BTE required

surgery! (And she is young and recently educated, too!)

Lydia

, almost 8, deaf with CI

Colin, almost 11, hearing

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> I'm sorry that I don't know enough about implants to answer your

question about the double array. But when reading your post,

Peyton's audiogram numbers stood out to me. My daugther's is very

similar. 80-85db unaided after a recent drop (she dropped last year

too) and 25-45 db aided. When I asked about the possibility of an

implant, her audi said that they would never put an implant in her

with getting such good results from her aids.