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Matt has been doing really well in speech therapy. When he started speech at the age of 2, he had severe articulation, moderate expressive, and mild receptive language delays. By the age of three, the receptive language score was above average, and the…
Recently with the cold spells we’ve been experiencing of late in ol Blighty, I’m finding that the cold affects my CI ear not the HA ear. As the CI ear is exposed to the cold weather, it slightly gives me a very mild earache but it goes away once it’s w…
Kids with cochlear implants rank quality of life equal to normally hearing peersANIWednesday, February 24, 2010 22:00 IST Email WASHINGTON: A new American research suggests that children with cochlear implants (CI) have the same quality of life (QOL)…
I read a post on Deaf Read called Illinois Folks Speak Out for Hearing Aid Coverage. It is very informative and I suggest you take a look at the videos. These videos are of people talking about how hearing aids are a medical need, not cosmetic. Therefo…
Here raises an interesting point, that may well reflect on any case that involves the deaf and sign language using person. If the evidence is all given in sign language, then you cannot insist the jury is au fait WITH sign language so can follow that …
As of March 4, 2010, most YouTube.com videos will have a CC button on it that will allow users to view automatically generated captions. What a treat for deaf or hard of hearing people who – up until now – have been shut out of YouTube videos.
The speech recognition technology is far from perfect, but [...]
Hello All,Let’s see where to begin. I guess I’ll start with January, Gavin’s b-day was on the 7Th. I threw a little birthday party for him. It was the little Einstein’s theme. I decorated the house all up,made a rocket cake for him, we played music gam…
Take a look at that number to the right, folks. Three hundred! That’s how many calendar days we have left until the end of the current session of Congress. It is actually less when you subtract holidays and weekends as well as Congressional session bre…
I chose light blue paisley stickers and gold butterfly stickers this time. I think it looks kind of ugly.
If you are wondering where I am getting my stickers, I get them from the drugstore’s nail/beauty aisle. They are designer nail art stickers. Th…
We are counting the days until Spring Break. We aren’t doing too much, but Elijah and I will be going to a Dallas Stars Hockey Game next week. Jacob did not want to go so my brother Jerry is going with us. We got free tickets from the hearing foundatio…
For work today I wore my nice gray suit pressed and wrinkle free with my white blouse tucked in. My hair neatly combed and styled. A little blush and mascara. Silver earrings and a small silver necklace, nice and simple. I hold my leather briefcase rea…
Spring is right around the corner and the sun is shining upon us again This winter has been put to very good use by yours truly. I’ve learned to hear again! I consolidated with my fabulous girlfriend, and we have purchased an apartment together I got a better [...]
My husband called me into his office last night and checked out the “side of my head” to see if I still had my cochlear implant and hearing aid on to hear. I kind of grin to myself when he does this, for after all… I’d not hear him call me into his office if [...]
I just got back from a camping trip over the weekend. It was great, a lot of fun. I’ll end this post with a few photos from the weekend.When you are camping, what do you do with your hearing aids and/or cochlear implants and/or other hearing accessorie…
Anonymous wrote:If he is “hearing” with his cochlear, you don’t need to cover your lips. Do hearing people do that with their hearing children? If not, then there’s no need to. If he really struggle to listen to the point that you have to cover your mo…
Time has flown by and now Jack (my baby) is 8 years old. It has been a time of reflection for me on how far Jack has come. From the start when we found out he was born deaf(six weeks old) , to unuseful hearing aid trial (declining loss – 18 months) ,…
YOU GUYS! DO YOU HEAR THOSE SOUNDS? It's the sound of a host of angels singing "Hallelujah". It's the sound of a million people applauding. It's the sound of rainbows in my classroom and unicorns running free through the fie…
Good Alabama MorningBrook had a friend over Sunday to make “chocolate milk”They did super well together and we look forward to having her back with my niece (who goes to preschool w/this little girl) for a girl’s spend the night party, big fu…
I mentioned a while back that our requests for information from the Department of Health on cuts to audiology training have not been terribly successful, if the letter we received a few weeks back from the Department was anything to go by.
Sadly, things have not improved. Last week, we got replies to some parliamentary [...]
Seek Martha & Seek Mary Beth (her daughter), Mary Beth was the one who drew this picture for Fish Oil.
Seek Alan
Opening Topic for Open Chat Night: How to communicate with people in the hearing world
I was enrolled in hearing impaired classes at the age of three. The teachers wanted me to learn sign language but I refused to learn, and soon discovered that hearing aids were the solution. It helped me hear all the sounds [...]
“One day our patients will be able to tell their own stories, and we will no longer have to convince naysayers that deaf children can listen and speak.“
- Richard T. Miyamoto, M.D.
… and that is why we do what we do. Because, ultimately, it’s not about US, it’s about the children. It’s not about OUR [...]
My independent learning project this semester is: Listening and Spoken Language Outcomes for Children who are Deaf with Multiple Disabilities… and I need your help! My goal is to determine the current state of research as well as real-world practice in the field of LSL for children who are multiply involved. Is listening and spoken [...]
First of all, Jazzie loves it when I use the hot rollers on her hair so she can have curls  It seems that Jazzie has finally come out of some sort of “funk”. For a while she was acting…
PC Magazine – March 4, 2010
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YouTube Makes Captioning Available to All
by Mark Hachman
Google’s YouTube on Thursday announced that it has moved its automatic
speech-recognition and closed-captioning technology out of beta and have now
made it available to the YouTube community at large.
Most, if not all, YouTube videos now include a “CC” button [...]
I’m back from camping and feeling relaxed and happy. I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend.Today I read an article on ParentDish about infant hearing screening. According to the author, 97% of infants are now screened for hearing loss (a step up from 1…
First of all, Jazzie loves it when I use the hot rollers on her hair so she can have curls It seems that Jazzie has finally come out of some sort of “funk”. For a while she was acting…
Advanced Bionic’s insurance reimbursement just caught this contradiction with Medicaid’s cochlear implant for adults coverage criteria.The first criteria states: “patient must have post lingual deafness” so patient need to have developed speech before …
Ok. I’m on a regional train FINALLY heading home after one of the strangest days ever.I had the second of ten Pediatric Courses, and right after I read the letter written by the mom who complains that pediatricians don’t listen to parents when we expre…
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