Re: alyanna and others not getting cochlear implant

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Sorry for replying to this so late, but I wanted to as Alyanna

sound a lot like my daughter . had no hearing in her left ear we

think from birth and initially normal in her right ear. We never aided the

left ear as the loss was so bad they also thought that she would never hear

speech with any aid. At 6 she started to loose her hearing in the right ear and

by nine it was going quickly. It was at that time that the implant center

decided it was time to implant her left ear - before all the hearing in her

right

ear was gone. So ever though she was and sometimes still is a very good

hearing aid user in her right ear (understands speech fairly well with her

hearing aid) they implanted her left ear. The implant has worked very well even

though she had never heard in that ear.

Just wanted to pass along that I believe every implant center is

different in the requirements for implanting children.

Cathy