Audiologists - Is deafness and perfect speech possible?  Jeffrey
Sirianni audioman at HCTC.NET Thu Nov 28 23:46:40 EST 1996
Reposted from personal email, with permission  BradIngrao at
writes:  In response to audioman at >I would love to hear from
any one else who has seen such children in their >own practices,
or from parents who feels like I do.  I see this in practice but
more in my son's school.  He's temporarily in a public school
program (we'e just adopted him and are waiting a space in the
Deaf School where he'll be a day student).  There are two kids
with implants who sign almost exclusively.  Both parents report
getting the implant about 4 hours away and being handed a
business card of a speech therapist.  I recently had a near-
argument with a Mayo Clinic neurotologist about why we are not
implanting our son.  The medical community is sadly too far
removed from the daily issues of implantation.  I think the best
thing we as audiologists can do is to prepare a pamphlet or
videotape (or web site) fran