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My youngest daughter who is 3 1/2 has a cochlear implant. She was implanted when she was 20 months old. It was a very tough decision for us, but at this point it was definitely the right one. She went from being profoundly deaf and really getting no benefit from hearing aids, to testing out with just a mild loss.
We learned ASL and that was our main means of communication with her. She goes to speech therapy twice a week. After a slow start, her speech has really started to take off. She is speaking in three and four word sentences now.
I believe that a persons sucess with a cochlear implant is very dependant on the cochlear implant team. My advice would be to talk to as many different surgeons and audiologist as you can even if it means traveling to do it. Ask how many implants they have done, how many cochlear implant patients the audiologist has, do they have experence with the different brands of cochlear implants, etc.
Let me know if you have any questions I can answer.
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