Nothing new here in Blakely land. Brook did discover her glasses holder (wooden animal bought at Wal Mart for glasses) will also hold her processors as well while she’s in the shower… Just going through the motions til Oct 18 arrives, which is Gage’s surgery date. I’m Read More
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life is crazypants
September 9th, 2010 by good but hard
a moment of rest with my sweet ruby home from vacation. then dear friends in town staying with us. meanwhile school starts for m. 3 days a week an hour each way. oh, and this weekend my brother is getting married. and the rehearsal dinner happens to be at our house. maybe that explains Read More
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Welcome To Holland
September 9th, 2010 by Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature
Many of you have probably read this poem, but I was speaking with a nice young lady today and could not remember the name of it. Anyway, here it is. I hope you enjoy it! Welcome To Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability Read More
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September Issue of Hearing Loss Magazine
September 9th, 2010 by Live*Laugh*Love*Family
Check out our featured article in Hearing Loss Magazine! Christina Marmor Article-1 Read More
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3rd and Final
September 9th, 2010 by Krull Family 5
Yesterday, Allison had what we hope will be her final surgery. This time it was her right ear. Once again the doctor cleaned out the cholesteotoma and removed her ear drum( which was paper thin and not really doing her any good, due to her hearing loss).She was in surgery about 2 1/2 hours, not Read More
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Summer is over…..
September 8th, 2010 by Loudest House on the Block
And my children are all back in school. We had a great summer- lots of soccer, some vacation, several roller coasters, and a couple of water parks. I have tons of pictures, but my computer will not let me load a chunk of them, and my “baby” broke (while on vacation), so I had to use Read More
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Free audiobooks available this week
September 8th, 2010 by funnyoldlife
Here’s an opportunity to add new training tools to your cochlear implant rehabilitation programme! What’s the deal? The Guardian is giving away free audiobooks online, every day this week (it started on Sat 4 Sept) inc. Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo and Iain Read More
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Rain brings music to my ears
September 8th, 2010 by Bionic World
The Summer months have been strange, we only had a trace of rain since the Spring, now, as we wind down, toward the Fall and Autumn months – It, FINALLY started raining yesterday. I spent most of my night with my windows open, listing to the echo’s of rain pounding against the trees Read More
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FM with the N5
September 8th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
I’ve found that my blog has had multiple searches about how to use the FM with the N5 processor. Currently, I use the MyLink neckloop instead of a boot (using T-coil) and the SmartLink Transmitter, both shown. Recently, I went to look at the Cochlear store’s newest items, in Read More
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Inclusion
September 7th, 2010 by Cochlear Implant Online
“Inclusion is more than just geography” I wish I could take credit for the quote above, but it came from a great presenter I heard at this year’s AG Bell Convention, Dr. Sarah Wainscott (see my notes from her presentation, “AVT Model for Families Transitioning from Visual Read More
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‘Hear to Meet’ people with hearing loss
September 7th, 2010 by the DeafBlog
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School Tomorrow:-)
September 7th, 2010 by Our journey to the hearing world
Thomas starts Pre-K tomorrow…YEAH!!!! Actually tomorrow is just a “visit” day…where Jim and I go with him and look around at his new classroom, meet his new teachers and meet some new friends!At the end of the school year, Thomas’ IEP was set up for him to go to his Read More
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Have an AB cochlear implant or considering one? Please join us for a BEA social!
September 7th, 2010 by Welcome to Sam Spritzer's Web Site
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I am still alive!
September 7th, 2010 by The deaf boy in the world
I know I haven’t been updating my blog faithfully! But I have good reason! I am so busy with going to school and work full-time. I didn’t realize how challenging it is to go to school and work full-time! I have been reading a lot of articles and chapters that my mind is all jumbled up with Read More
Posted in ASL, Cochlear Implant, Cued Speech |
Improvements
September 7th, 2010 by Miss Kat's Deaf journey
I have noticed some very drastic improvements in Miss Kat’s speech and spoken language in the last two weeks. She is doing great with adding the final consonants (she has always been a deleter, and it really lowers her intelligibility) and she is now adding “s” for plurals! Yeah Read More
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First STT talk at Royal Academy
September 6th, 2010 by funnyoldlife
Gaugin and the Glasgow Boys Join us for a talk at the Royal Academy with speech-to-text transcription on Monday 1 November, from 1-2pm. Talk: Gaugin and the Glasgow Boys Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people can book their places at RA Tickets. Doors open at 12.30pm; please arrive before Read More
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over a year as a cyborg
September 6th, 2010 by mog renewed
I’ve been meaning to blog about my 1st CI anniversary for a while – since July in fact- but I keep being diverted. This in itself is an indication of how successful the implant has been. Back in July I went up to Sunnybrook for my 1 year assessment and map adjustments. I could give you Read More
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Inside Out….Outside In
September 6th, 2010 by An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Implant Story
I have spent the past three years on the inside trying to look out and now I find myself on the outside looking in. This may make no sense at all to you, but it does to me. And it’s a good place to be.So, I’ve been reading “The Secret” and there’s a part where it Read More
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Beach Trip
September 6th, 2010 by Ben's journey into a hearing world.
Today we went to the beach and the Oregon Coast Aquarium with Grandma Mary and nine other family members. What a busy day! Ben’s favorite part (besides lunch) was the sand on the beach. At first he refused to step on it and held his feet in the air. Then he moved on to gigantic steps. Read More
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(NL-0057) CI Story – Who’s a piece of work?
September 5th, 2010 by Not Listening
I was standing in a hot-dog line in the early afternoon. Not really paying attention to too much around me. Had my CIs off (it was a noisy place and I have really wanted to have some quiet solitude these past couple of days. (I know I said I was not going to publish here anymore, but Read More
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Liam’s IFSP
September 5th, 2010 by From Silence to Song
Liam had his IFSP this past week. He had one right before we moved from TX, but a new one needed to be done since we’ve moved to a new state. We were prepared for that before we moved, so it didn’t bother me to make the time to do. We also had an IFSP for Drezden, but there Read More
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Communication
September 5th, 2010 by The Shaddox Boys
I have been thinking a lot about communication, miscommunications and perceptions lately. So much of my job and my life is dependent on how I communicate with people. In my new role at work this is very true and it is also true as a parent and as human being. There is so much more to Read More
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Two Weeks into the School Year
September 4th, 2010 by The Shaddox Boys
We are two weeks into the school year, and I am happy to report things are going well. Jacob is loving the high school. He will wear his ROTC uniform to school this Wednesday and every Wednesday of the school year. I can’t wait to get a picture of him! I took him to get his haircut today so Read More
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Hearing Loss, Confidence, and my Second Week of School
September 4th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
Week 2 was also successful! The homework load has increased, and there has been an annoying amount of “busy-work” but it has certainly been bearable. It was pretty uneventful (except for a bunch of other sophomores unofficially declared on Tuesday “Scrub Day” which I find Read More
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Six months with Number 2 [with results]
September 4th, 2010 by Curse of Silence
OK Now it’s six months since number two was implanted and coming up to two years for number one. Maybe I should give them names but they can’t be names which means this one is better than that one, must be equal. Anyway six months in and I attended the checkup session with Monica on Read More
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Celebrity
September 4th, 2010 by Ben's journey into a hearing world.
Ben was featured in a front page article in our local newspaper. The newspaper contacted us way back in December before Ben’s first surgery. The reporter and photographer were so interested in Ben’s story they joined us on his first surgery day and then again when he was first Read More
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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
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too loud
September 3rd, 2010 by I am Thankful For My Ears
over the summer we traveled. a lot. many exciting outdoor shows were watched, namely the Blue Angels. in this and other environments when alexander can not figure out where the noise if coming from, he often climbs into my lap and covers his eyes. it breaks my heart knowing it is his way of Read More
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CI Moments
September 3rd, 2010 by Tayten Matthew
In the past, Tayten has told me that his CI beeped, or explained, in his own unique way, that his CI was “cutting out”, but last night was his best reporting moment yet! Homework was done, books were read, and a overly-detailed review of our day was complete, but Tayten continued Read More
