Megan Clancy is a bilateral cochlear implant user, who was profoundly deaf at birth. She got her first implant in 2002 and her second one in 2007. She got them both during her young adult years.
Family, private speech language tutors and an experienced auditory-oral teacher of the deaf/auditory verbal therapist work with Megan for developing her auditory vocabulary and comprehension. See a speech language tutor session here:
Megan no longer uses sign language at school and uses her Phonak FM system in situations where there are bad acoustics.
Megan struggled to find an audiologist who can serve her needs, since she was born completely deaf with no pre-built auditory vocabulary. She finally found Project Talk in San Diego, Calif. There are pediatric audiologists like Joan Hewitt, AuD and Lori Owen, M.A. who specialize in MAPping in children and adults who have prelingual onset of deafness.
Since Megan received two cochlear implants and with the help of Project Talk, Megan's auditory vocabulary and comprehension is increasing every day. Megan is able to take some notes by herself at school which she was never able to before meeting the staff at Project Talk.
Through ProjectTalk, Megan receives auditory-oral services with Gwen Suennen, who is a teacher of the deaf.
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