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Do i seem have intellectual disability or not im just wondering if you really understand me or not because im deaf and have cochlear implant and have hearing aids on right ear and have aspergers syndrome people thinks differently and then how can i think something in my head but im visual learner im confused so yeah i have 71% listening sentances on my cochlear implant compared my hearing aids before implant was 0% listening and its
Huge differents compared hearing aid and then its soo hard understand the sentances with hearing aid and i had 89% lip reading and 100% on short sentances which is really good thats easy part before cochlear implant, i had 100 db on my right ear thats Proundly hearing loss had missed all the words in the past all these people situation about understanding speech, listening, sentences or haven't heard of the word before i think im not smart so what you think about it?

Well, you found your way here, which takes some smarts. Dealing with deafness has probably given you some other, less common kinds of intelligence. However, I would not recommend a career in English composition.

Hi, I work with a pupil who has cochlear implants.
When did you get your implants? I ask because you compare them to your hearing aids, so it sounds like they are more of a new thing. It does take time to learn to listen and process all that you hear with your implants. You basically have to learn spoken English as a new language, which is huge.
Being deaf is not intellectual disability, it is a physical disability but it does impact on communication. It also means that you have less access to information because you do not hear as much information as others. This does NOT make you stupid. You have to work a lot harder to make sense of things, and in a way that makes you smarter than people who just suck information up like a sponge.
You have the right to express your own needs. If you do not understand what someone says, ask them to say it more simply, explain that you are deaf and you are still learning spoken English. Keep using your lipreading, those are very good scores! Make sure that people follow the lipreading rules (like not covering their mouth, being in good light, taking turns to speak and all the rest) That will help you to learn to match the sounds of the words to the lip patterns that you know.
Good luck!

I don't think you have an intellectual disability but it's impossible to decide that over an internet forum. You seem clever to me.

Perhaps you could benefit from some English lessons. The way you don't use punctuation much makes what you write challenging to read.

I have two sisters who use heading aids and they've had some issues with people because of not hearing as well as others. They're both very clever though.

It would probably be easy for people to assume that you have an intellectual impairment, as the only way they can tell what and how effectively you think is through your communication. Many people automatically assume that, if somebody isn't great at making themself understood through conventional methods, that person is of subnormal intelligence.

Don't think that you are stupid just because other people might think so and treat you as such. You seem clever enough to me!

I think I remember you saying you were deaf from birth. If this is the case then as Goth Fairy said I think it would be like learning an alien language , it's just people who can hear have have a head start in life compared to you and you have 27 years of catching up , you are just a late bloomer.