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From: fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Immunizations causing handicaps
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 10:55:18 EDT
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> [lots of other interesting info re DPT immunizations]
>
> epidemiological arguments don't hold up against the dichotomy of am immunized
> child who will never speak.

i appreciate your contribution, friend at islenet.
	just in passing, if you had in mind our daughter when you said "child
who will never speak", you might be pleased to know that we are working with
an excellent speech teacher who is shaping her sounds into "mama", "papa",
"I love you", and a number of others.  not bad for 100+dB loss.
	factors in a deaf person's ability to shape sounds into speech
comprehended by most everyone are:  age when hearing loss occured (sometimes
hearing is lost after language/speech has been under development for awhile),
degree of hearing loss through the sound spectrum (esp re speech sound band),
type of loss (conductive loss weakens sound; sensori-neural loss distorts
sound, sometimes even cutting out sound entirely), and maybe a few others
that don't come to mind right off.
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