I miss you, Henry. I missed you instantly when that bus drove away yesterday. I realized I forgot to remind you what room number you were in. I forgot to ask Kate to help you find your room. I forgot to make sure you would be okay. And then I just felt sad. Because I realized that [...] Read More
Archive for the ‘Hearing Aid’ Category
Selective hearing
September 8th, 2010 by Speak Up!
This afternoon Marielle and I were sitting on the front porch. (Note – actually a slab of concrete, but “porch” sounds fancier.) I could hear the wind, the low roar of traffic from the local parkway, and the two of us talking. Occasionally a car would drive by, but not too bad Read More
Posted in ASL, Cued Speech, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
The New Normal
September 8th, 2010 by Orange
Well, we’ve started preschool! Ben started at his new daycare facility yesterday, but his IEP didn’t start until today (first day of school in our district). We made a short visit to the preschool yesterday, just to suggest what his daily schedule is going to be like (the Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid |
Poem: Hearing Aid, Hearing Aid
September 8th, 2010 by Eh? What? Huh?
Hearing aid, Hearing aid Hearing aid, hearing aid What do you hear? Be it far or be it near. Tell me, please What sounds there might be, in this big world of places to see. Hearing aid, hearing aid Listen to me. Listen ever so carefully. Did you hear that sound in the middle of the night? Was it Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
CAA’s Letter + Misconstrued = Fail
September 8th, 2010 by candy
We’ve heard this saying often in the deaf blogosphere as it relates to choices and options when it comes to parents and the deciding factors for their deaf/hh babies and children: One size does not necessarily fit all. What works for one does not necessarily work for all. CAA’s Read More
Posted in Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
A Reader’s Poem About Her Hearing Aid
September 8th, 2010 by Eh? What? Huh?
Small pieces of plastic, so tiny, yet bringing forth such passion. Causing joy, causing painsometimes one emotion smothering the other.Sometimes each vying for power. I hear sounds never imagined before -birds chirping, doorbells ringing,even lisps in the spoken wordsof those Others I Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Are deaf children getting the help they need at school?
September 8th, 2010 by Campaigning for deaf children
The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) is launching a new campaign later this week, and I’ve been busy getting everything ready for the big kick off. The campaign is on a subject close to my heart: making sure that deaf children get the help they need at school. Image courtesy Read More
Posted in Deaf, Education, Uncategorized |
The wheels keep on turning
September 8th, 2010 by Speak Up!
Working on my taxes; could life get more exciting? After four hours of work I figured out that in 2009 we had over 210 medical appointments. I sat in the car for six thousand, seven hundred and eighty four miles just to go to the doctor, speech therapist, etc. 6,784 I don’t know if Read More
Posted in ASL, Cued Speech, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
September 7th, 2010 by Speak Up!
It’s the first day of school!!!! Well, one of them anyway. Marielle has the same teacher that she’s had for the past 2 years, and many of the same friends. It makes the first day back much less stressful for all of us. September 2010: My how we’ve grown! September 2009: Read More
Posted in ASL, Cued Speech, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
Prisha goes to school in Germany
September 7th, 2010 by Impaired but Empowered
Posted in AVT, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Expanding Our Community
September 7th, 2010 by OuterChat.com
Opening Topic for Open Chat Night: Suggestions to bring more people in our community For the past month, I have traveled to places across South India. I did some sightseeing but mostly visited my cousins and relatives. While I couldn’t attend our daily chat for several weeks, I Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Poet Writes a Poem About My Hearing Aid
September 6th, 2010 by Eh? What? Huh?
I went to a book festival the other day, mainly to support my friend who just recently wrote and published a book. There was a booth in front of an art gallery where people were writing free poems on demand about anything you request. I thought it would be interesting to request a poem about my Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Lip-Reading in decline, why ?
September 6th, 2010 by At The Rim
Reading this non-news is still rather depressing, but what IS the real reason for lack of demand and provision of lip-reading classes, which unlike sign language classes, provide a real need and support in real time direct to those that need it ? Before we start wailing in the streets and Read More
Posted in Deaf, Education |
Understanding your child’s hearing test
September 5th, 2010 by Speak Up!
I worship at the church of John Tracy, subscribe to their blog feed and read every word religiously. I found this link in my inbox today. This article explains all the tests and provides a list of questions parents should ask. It should be given to every parent whose child fails any Read More
Posted in ASL, Cued Speech, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
Everyone Loves Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2010 by The Energy of X
X hasn’t even started his preschool program, and already we are having some issues. It’s the weekend before his first day and we have only had communication with the school that we ourselves have initiated. No promised letter, no returned phone calls. Moreover, the information we received Read More
Posted in ASL, Education, Hearing Loss |
Good Benny quotes
September 4th, 2010 by Orange
Ben’s most recent joke: “What’s a mudroom with no mud?” “I don’t know.” “A no-mud mudroom!” Yesterday, we met with his afternoon daycare teachers for the last time before he starts there next week, to discuss his hearing equipment and Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid |
speech sample
September 3rd, 2010 by Life with Lucas
When we were at the John Tracy Clinic this summer, we had the opportunity to look at Lucas’s language skills with more depth. I had stopped keeping track of all of his words, because there were too many to count. But, with the help of one of their vocabulary books, we counted how many Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Great IEP resource!
September 3rd, 2010 by Orange
This was posted on cicircle. It has a bunch of “conversation stoppers” that might get thrown at you during an IEP meeting, discussion of the hidden meanings behind these, and suggestions for tactful, effective ways to respond. Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid |
Things since last update
September 2nd, 2010 by Eva Nichole
Nothing to big has been going on, we are finally sitting and doing nothing. Eva has been going to school and doing well, her teacher told me once day they were doing their welcome song and Eva was humming it. She is my little humming bird. She has also been working hard on walking and she gets so Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid |
Lindy’s 1st day of Preschool
September 1st, 2010 by Southern Babies
Miss Thang had her first day of preschool today! She was a rock star! We got to her school and went to her classroom and she was playing around, checking everything out. Drew and I had to fill out paperwork so we were in the room for a little while. Two other students came Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
RN-T.com – McHenry wins 25 000 grant for playground thanks to community support
September 1st, 2010 by Just Another Ordinary Miracle
It truly does take a village to raise a child. Congratulations to everyone at McHenry. And we all must thank Ms. Penny Pryor for recongnizing that all the children should play on the playground – so she set out to write the proposal to Pepsi to make a difference in some very special Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid |
Equipment Handout
August 31st, 2010 by Orange
Okay, maybe this works. Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid |
Thank you!
August 30th, 2010 by David's Eagle Project
The eagle project if pretty much done according to the plan David wrote up. But we will continue to write this one last update for David’s Eagle Project. David has been able to talk to people from England, Canada, Greece, USA, UK and many more. It has been an amazing journey for him and Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
Goodbye Hearing and Vision Therapists :(
August 29th, 2010 by Southern Babies
This was the week we said goodbye to our therapists Chris and Lesley. Monday morning Miss Chris was here for her last session with Lindy. Chris has been the therapist we have seen the most. She has worked with Lindy every week since she came home from the NICU. She works Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Time of transition
August 28th, 2010 by Orange
Our fall semester started last Monday, so summer vacation is officially over. Today we made what may be our last trip to the zoo this year. A disturbingly large portion of the local foliage is starting to turn color — not because cool fall temperatures have set in, but Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid |
Change that – McHenry just hit #2 — keep voting!
August 27th, 2010 by Just Another Ordinary Miracle
McHenry Primary is number 3 as of this morning!! Keep voting – all other schools are working for these spots – vote, vote, vote through August 31st. You guys rock!! Keep voting!! And now if you are a blogger post it up and get your people voting too!!If you are on Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid |
Here.. We… GO!
August 26th, 2010 by Life with Lucas
Tomorrow is a big day. Tomorrow is the first meeting in preparation for Lucas’s transition from Part C (early intervention) to Part B (school-age) of the federal government’s IDEA law (Iindividuals with Disabilities Education Act), enacted in 2004. The purpose of this meeting is to Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
To clarify
August 26th, 2010 by Our blog...
Our original plan was to schedule surgery and then cancel if we needed to. I didn’t have a peace about it all hanging in the air, so we made a decision based on a lot of different things. I thought I might need to clarify how we came to the decision to go ahead with the Cochlear Implants (CI). Read More
Posted in Auditory/Oral, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Assessments
August 26th, 2010 by The Lutz Family Fun Page
Jason and I had an appointment yesterday with the people at the Early Learning Center for his assessment into preschool. We hung out and Jason played in their waiting room for a minute. Karen, who was in charge of the meeting, came into introduce herself. She of course had a lot of paper work on Read More
Posted in Education, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
Tuesday
August 26th, 2010 by The Lutz Family Fun Page
Tuesday was therapy day. Jean, Jason’s speech therapist, came over in the afternoon. She wrote on his paperwork, “Jason’s pointing & vocalizing with intent. Making more sound & word attempts.” The goals that we need to work on are to Increase his understanding Read More
