Pre-CI Audiogram

Well, I've scanned it in and figured out how to post it. Yeah! Let's look at this. Matt had some residual hearing in the low frequency range. Very little. His cochleas are not fully formed, so we expected the high frequency to be bad from the start, no surprise there. He only has 1.5 turns of his cochleas, vs. the usual 2.25 turns, I think.

Now it looks like he was doing better with aids. Of course he was! But while he was detecting sounds at those ranges, he was not discriminating those sounds well at all. As one deaf adult told me, hearing aids amplify sound, they don't make any discriminations. Matt's perception of sound was probably amplified noise at that point. Matt tested very well in the sound booth, and with any other test that was given to him. What little residual hearing he once had was rapidly going away, we saw the cochlear implant as an excellent option for him.

This audiogram was done just over one week prior to his CI surgery. I have to go through paperwork this weekend, maybe I can find reports post CI activation. That might be cool, eh?