hearing improvement

Post Reply New Topic

should i get cochlea Implant but im Profoundly Deaf and i have Asperger's Syndrome which is mild form autism Spectrum disorder so im feeling nervous about getting it so do u think its better than hearing aids?

I think cochlear implants would benefit you, since you have residual hearing.

Is your hearing loss from birth, or did you acquire it later?

That depends. What are you looking to gain from the implant? Maybe asking people who have the implant about what they can hear and how it affects their lives? From what I understand, a cochlear implant helps people hear speech and sounds around them. They don't hear music in the same way though, and the sounds are different than natural hearing.

Have you ever been able to understand speech? If not, that will be a learning process. Also, learning to identify lots of new sounds could be an adventure or an overwhelming challenge, depending on how you feel that day.

Anybody can have Asperger's traits: blind, deaf, whatever.

I have no idea what it's like to hear for the first time in life when you get hearing aides or implants. What do the words sound like, etc. But I do know for a fact that you will get overstimulated bu everything and your brain will have a hard time filtering out noise because it never learned how to do that. It could take years for your brain to learn or maybe not. I don't know. I was a baby when I had tubes put in my ears and after that everything was overwhelming for me because I wasn't used to hearing everything and everything seemed loud and that lasted for years but I was a child then so my brain was still developing. At least with hearing aides you can turn down the volume or take them out if it gets too overwhelming for you. I don't think you can do that with implants. I would do some research and look more into it if I were you.

Also I am curious, did you have a language impairment growing up? Did you also talk late?