Subject: Re: Do deaf humans (CI users) like music? From: Thomas G Brennan <g_brennantg(at)TITAN.SFASU.EDU> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:03:54 -0600Robbin, that partly obviously has to do with your definition of "deaf". Deafness is much like blindness in that very few people are either totally deaf or totally blind. By deaf do you mean congenitally totally deaf persons? If not, the question is very much confounded by the auditory variable. If you do indeed mean totally deaf there is a fairly small population to work with. Clinically speaking, I have found anyone congenitally totally deaf regardless of when implanted to gain far less benefit from implants although the younger seems to be the better. However, I have seen only a few of such people and have only communicated with a few more beyond that. Tom Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html