What are the cons of a cochlear implant?

I am 17 in ASL class. My boyfriend comes with a deaf family but i could not get their opinion on the situation. I am writing an essay on whether or not i would give my child a cochlear implant. I am thinking of saying 'no' at the moment but i would love...

If the T-coil was built in the Totally Implantable speech processor, then the cochlear implant user could use a neckloop for 99 percent invisible hearing. Is this possible? I really think that as long as the magnetic field strength is strong enough to...

All of the cochlear implant speech processors currently have four to six hearing programs. I do not think that this is necessary (as a very experienced cochlear implant user), because a normal hearing person only has one hearing program. Can the cochlear...

I'm a cochlear implant user in college. It seems that the Cochlear implant companies are obsessed with implanting little babies/publishing studies of how well CI kids talk/bilateral cochlear implants/releasing huge Behind-the ear products with four to...

Currently, the cochlear implant speech processors are huge and as conspicuous as the world's largest hearing aid. I blame it on the four to six hearing programs crammed and jammed into the speech processor, which makes it tremendously enormous in order...

I was raised Oral and learned American Sign Language all my life after I was diagnosed with hearing loss and became profoundly deaf. What is hardest thing for me is that I have to be a neutral or a bridge for two different deaf worlds. One that use ASL...

How I can get cochlear implant being see the doctor or audiologist ? I make sure how process get cochlear implant also my insurance already cover for hearing aid and cochlear implant . I grow up with family never use communicate very well sign language...

Know that this is an extremely controversial topic. I was just wondering which one do you believe in. I have been taking ASL classes and it has been interesting and we learned a fair amount about the cochlear implant. Recently my mom and I saw a boy...

I want to design a Totally Implantable cochlear implant with the T-coil built in the Totally Implantable processor. This way, the cochlear implant user may resort to a wireless neckloop or FM microphone for a completely invisible hearing. Anybody else...