To: kingattax
If she’s never heard before, how would she understand the days of the week? I’d think her first word after getting the implants would be, “Huh?”
3 posted on
03/28/2014 1:58:08 PM PDT by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
To: Cyber Liberty
Are you setting someone up for you to yell at?
4 posted on
03/28/2014 2:00:29 PM PDT by
EEGator
To: Cyber Liberty
If she’s never heard before, how would she understand the days of the week? Through lipreading. A friend of mine's daughter caught spinal meningitis at an early age (prior to 2 years old.) She lost her hearing as a result. She learned sign language and lip reading by the time she was five or six years old and did pretty good at forming words and speaking them also.
When she was eight, she got a Cochlear implant (just like Rush Limbaugh has.) However it is they "dial in" the implant and tweak the software, etc.. she was able to understand her mother call her name very quickly the day the doctors turned it on.
It was really quite incredible.
5 posted on
03/28/2014 2:03:15 PM PDT by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: Cyber Liberty
having never even heard a sound before, much less spoken language..how could she possibly understand a single word that is being spoken to her ?
piers morgan is overwhelmed, i’m sure.
6 posted on
03/28/2014 2:05:59 PM PDT by
kingattax
(America needs more real Americans.)
To: Cyber Liberty
I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking that. If this is the first time hearing anything, how would everything sound high pitched at first?
Maybe the article needs work?
17 posted on
03/28/2014 2:29:25 PM PDT by
Lx
(Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
To: Cyber Liberty
The lady is deaf, not dumb. Of course she knows the days of the week. Hell, many deaf people are more perceptive than those who can hear.
To: Cyber Liberty
note to Genius... She was not brain dead...she was deaf...please learn about hearing impaired individuals..it is not fun to be deaf, but don't call us stupid...OK? thanks in advance. My first words after my cochlear implants were turned on...'OH Kathleen I can hear you' that was directed to my special Angel, my cochlear audiologist.. some one once asked me what was I hearing now that I didn't hear before or at least for a long, long time... my answer,,, rain falling on the metal roof of our house, and birds singing so beautiful on a summer day...just simple little things hearing folks take for granted... p.s. and to all you conservative haters out there, Rush Limbaugh was my inspiration for getting my implants..I could not always understand him, but read his web site daily to 'hear' what he was telling us...now I CAN LISTEN TO HIM...and still read his web!!!!♥
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