Archive for the ‘Hearing Aid’ Category

Language Activity: Interactive Storytelling

March 14th, 2013 by

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What Motivates You?

March 11th, 2013 by

Blog topic written by Amber Glembin, staff writer at DeafandHoH.com Life is full of exciting experiences and wonderful people who make you look forward to the days ahead.  Other days can be tough, and we are presented with many challenges.  Obstacles in our daily existence can hinder us from Read More

Let’s Hear It for Almigal / Please vote and show support

March 11th, 2013 by

I will always support special needs related endeavors of any sort, especially when it can be hard to find social stories like this. Wendy Kupfer is a great author of this wonderful book inspired by her amazing daughter who has hearing loss. If you have a daughter, it can be a very relatable Read More

Ides of March

March 10th, 2013 by

Is it Sunday again?  I swear these weeks are going too fast for my liking. It was a pretty normal week for us.  We are settling in to my working gig.  We definitely have a new normal schedule now.  I will give a shout out to Drew as he has been awesome with this whole job Read More

Tara Congdon, Blue Ear, Phonak, and Iron Man

March 8th, 2013 by

Tara Congdon responded to my earlier blog about her recent rant against Marvel Comics and Phonak in a poster campaign with Iron Man. I agree with Tara’s comment that the focus was not on Anthony Smith “The Blue Ear.” What I saw was Tara’s opinion Read More

Kindergarten Artwork

March 8th, 2013 by

If Nolan hatched an egg, he would find a “snowy bird.” Or a Nowy bird, as the case may be! Read More

Bullying

March 5th, 2013 by

Shanna Groves, a DeafandHoH.com member and hearing loss awareness advocate, recently started a petition to stop bullying toward students and employees with hearing loss.  She says, “As a person with hearing loss, I have seen bullying first hand.  I’ve been called ‘stupid,’ Read More

Loaded Questions…

March 2nd, 2013 by

This post is specifically directed to all of the parents out there who are raising children with special needs.  All parents of special needs children, no matter the scope, mild to severe…… In the next few weeks I’ll get the opportunity to help lead a session of moms Read More

Read Captions Across America Day has arrived!

March 1st, 2013 by

Captions Across America – March 1st 2013 Today is Read Captions Across America Day! This is a great initiative set up by the Described and Captioned Media Program to encourage people to turn on the closed captioning when watching television for the educational benefit of reading and Read More

Why no cochlear implant character in Switched at Birth?

March 1st, 2013 by

Rachel Chaikof has a good blog piece about the lack of cochlear implant characters on the Switched at Birth show.  A show with deaf characters who do not know sign language and prefer to listen and speak. Go and check her blog out now and contribute. Read More