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From: Mark.Blevis@f223.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Blevis)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: COCHLEAR IMPLANT
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Date: 25 Apr 91 21:25:17 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Why should you have a problem with entrusting a child to the care
of the cochlear implant?  I missed some of the messaging so I'm
sorry if I missed that point.  In any case, I know Christa
Donaldson (the Ottawa girl who received the cochlear implant) and
she has made tremendous progress since the operation.  Granted
there will be some drawbacks until she is completely accustomed to
the hardware, but in no time I can see her functioning in our cruel
society which dictates the necessity for her to have had the
surgery.  It's a shame that without hearing it's very hard to
funtion in the "cold cruel world" (as a grade school teacher of
mine used to call it) but without the implant... without speech,
Christa would get nowhere fast.  She's just as inquisitive as the
next kid and if anyone should have gotten the implant, it is
definitely her.

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