8 month old baby hears for the first time(your "awww" of the day)

[mnemosyne]

That was fascinating.

Is it wrong that I thought the music clip was some pretty cool industrial music?

[Swallowed_My_Cellphone]

If you have the cochlear implants can you go swimming? Or is it just scuba that’s out of the question?

[Weedy]

@Swallowed_My_Cellphone

If you have the cochlear implants can you go swimming? Or is it just scuba that’s out of the question?

You can swim and scuba dive to limited depths if you remove the external part of the implant.

[shijinn]

@Mama_Zappa

Here’s an example of how things would sound with cochlear implants:

The House Institute Foundation

Fascinating. With the higher number of channels, speech is recognizable if not great; music is still a lost cause.

no wonder the baby freaked out, everything sounds so… robotic.

[lizardling]

What everyone else has said about driving. It honestly never occurred to me or to my family to be worried about my not being able to hear when I got my DL. I just need to pay more attention to what’s going on around me – for example, if people are getting out of the way or not moving for a green, I check around to see if there’s a fire truck or cop coming.

Besides, for scuba diving the idea behind the cochlear implant limitation isn’t because you can’t hear things underwater, it’s because the pressure might affect your implant’s future functionality negatively beyond the cited 25m. I have an acquaintance who’s a scuba instructor and we’ve discussed me learning to dive – the only reason I haven’t is a) cost and b) Puget Sound water is friggin’ cold even with a suit.

OTOH, I just found a pubmed cite that involves an experienced diver making over 50 dives to 42m deep without any major negative effects on his CIs. So it might well be that newer CIs are more resilient and better understood.

[Meyer6]

@lizardling

Besides, for scuba diving the idea behind the cochlear implant limitation isn’t because you can’t hear things underwater, it’s because the pressure might affect your implant’s future functionality negatively beyond the cited 25m. I have an acquaintance who’s a scuba instructor and we’ve discussed me learning to dive – the only reason I haven’t is a) cost and b) Puget Sound water is friggin’ cold even with a suit.

I was basing the scuba diving stuff on this comment:

@Budista

When scuba diving, one of the only ways to get someones attention if they’re not looking right at you is sound. It’s possible to make some pretty attention grabbing noises underwater, none of which are going to be effective for a deaf person. When it’s an emergency and you need their attention -now-, their inability to hear could mean serious injury or even death.

My sister’s deaf and had this all explained to her when we were going to go scuba diving one time. We elected to go snorkelling instead.

I didn’t realize it had to do with pressure. Anyways, I didn’t mean any insult in thinking deaf people couldn’t drive, I just honestly had never even considered it before. Consider the ignorance fought.

[AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet]

When scuba diving, one of the only ways to get someones attention if they’re not looking right at you is sound. It’s possible to make some pretty attention grabbing noises underwater, none of which are going to be effective for a deaf person.

Um I thought that scuba divers generally use signs underwater.

Fascinating. With the higher number of channels, speech is recognizable if not great; music is still a lost cause.
no wonder the baby freaked out, everything sounds so… robotic.

Well except for ex hearing people (who can integrate the input from the CI with their memory of hearing,) the sound from a CI is not really at all what a hearing person would think of when they think “hearing”
Heck, even I (congential conductive loss) don’t hear like a hearing person even with my hearing aids on. I hear like a deaf one. I hear through bone conduction, rather then air conduction.

[AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet]

Oh and re: hearing for the first time. I’m 30 and have worn hearing aids since '82. I still can’t get over how much I can hear with hearing aids vs. how much I can’t when they are off.

[Serenata67]

The video is adorable… I love cute baby vids…

[ToeJam]

@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet

Oh and re: hearing for the first time. I’m 30 and have worn hearing aids since '82. I still can’t get over how much I can hear with hearing aids vs. how much I can’t when they are off.

Cool beans, I’m 26 and I’ve had hearing aids since around 1990. I had an acquired loss of hair cells (so I believe that’s a sensorineural loss) around age 3-5, no one’s sure when it happen, only that it did. I love my HA but I do have a habit of not wearing them when no one’s around just because I don’t mind the silence, and I can hear things faintly in the background (mostly low bass sounds like trucks passing outside my window- it’s a faint hum), and the telephone, but in order to function out there, I def. need and love my digital HA for that sort of thing!

I knew you were a HoH Doper, but I didn’t realize you were so close to my own age, always a pleasure!

[AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet]

I knew you were a HoH Doper, but I didn’t realize you were so close to my own age, always a pleasure!

Likewise!
Yes, I remember there’s a few of us Deaf and HoH Dopers posting here. I love that, as it’s like " OMG! OTHER SMART/geeky/nerdy dhh folks! (grew up mainstreamed to the max. shudders) I went to see the Gally University Academic Bowl Regional Finals a few months ago,and that was like a real life version of posting here. f you want a Doper-like dhh messageboard, go to http://www.alldeaf.com…Most of us (who are regular posters) are prelingally dhh, but there are a bunch of late deafened and some perilingal (lost hearing while learning language) and postlingal folks there. We welcome a lot of people (and there are a lot of smart folks there too) …WAY better then the Hearing Loss Association (formally SHH) style sort of messageboard where the Most Exciting Thing is reading about the Latest Hearing Aids , or How to Use an Assiative Listening Device. (oh GAWD, I got banned fromthereonce for daring to say that the reason why a lot of us young HoH folks aren’t HLAA members is b/c it’s too Hearing Health 101, and not too many young folks really want to pay a lot of money to read and learn about ALDs and the Latest Hearing Aid/CI.)