Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!mot!fred From: fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med Subject: Re: Immunizations causing handicaps Message-ID: <318@mot.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 10:55:18 EDT Article-I.D.: mot.318 Posted: Fri Sep 27 10:55:18 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 15:19:31 EDT References: <959@mtuxo.UUCP> <872@burl.UUCP> <2187@iddic.UUCP> <1646@islenet.UUCP> Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ 85282 Lines: 22 Xref: utcs net.kids:2094 net.med:2410 > [lots of other interesting info re DPT immunizations] > > epidemiological arguments don't hold up against the dichotomy of am immunized > child who will never speak. i appreciate your contribution, friend at islenet. just in passing, if you had in mind our daughter when you said "child who will never speak", you might be pleased to know that we are working with an excellent speech teacher who is shaping her sounds into "mama", "papa", "I love you", and a number of others. not bad for 100+dB loss. factors in a deaf person's ability to shape sounds into speech comprehended by most everyone are: age when hearing loss occured (sometimes hearing is lost after language/speech has been under development for awhile), degree of hearing loss through the sound spectrum (esp re speech sound band), type of loss (conductive loss weakens sound; sensori-neural loss distorts sound, sometimes even cutting out sound entirely), and maybe a few others that don't come to mind right off. -- << Generic disclaimer >> Fred Christiansen ("Canajun, eh?") @ Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ UUCP: {seismo!terak, trwrb!flkvax, utzoo!mnetor, ihnp4!btlunix}!mot!fred ARPA: oakhill!mot!fred@ut-sally.ARPA AT&T: 602-438-3472 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com