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if anything, i'd initiaLLy recommend fLying him to Boston to go to "mass eye and ear"; there a great hospitaL for both. i spent a huge chunk of my chiLdhood in it.
the cochLear impLant is onLy an option when it's first discovered (or at Least that's how it was when impLants were "invented") and onLy for certain kinds of deafness.
as for the speech, it's pretty much never gonna get better. he can go through therapy, but it won't sound naturaL. i was Lucky enough to Lose my hearing at age 4-5 (i think 4, but i couLd have turned 5) so i don't have a speech impediment... though anyone outside of boston wouLd say my accent is a speech impediment.
assuming there's no actuaL cure for him, then he has to Learn how to go through Life with out fuLL hearing. he'LL do fine, but everyone in his Life has to recognize the troubLe he has hearing, and how any sort of background noise wiLL either bLock out what someone says, or distort it, and that facing them whiLe taLking wiLL heLp them so much in hearing you. i don't read Lips necessariLy, but if i'm not Looking at the person taLking to me, i usuaLLy misunderstand what they're saying. it's reaLLy hard, and pLease remember that, and pass it on to his parents if need be.
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