Today Connor had his behavioral hearing exam. We drove there with a load of stuff for the apartment in the car– hence the giant Elmo of Doom lurking in the trunk and warning off potential tailgaters with his huge crazed eyes. Anyway, the hearing exam did not go exactly as planned. Read More
Archive for April, 2009
Hypothesis
April 30th, 2009 by La Familia Página
When we met with Caleb’s audiologist in December, I told her that I thought his hearing was better even without his hearing aids. She looked at me like I was off. I explained my hypothesis-that, perhaps, since the neurons that hadn’t been stimulated for four years were now being Read More
Posted in Hearing Loss |
Remote Con-Troll
April 30th, 2009 by Cochlear Implant Online
The classic children’s tale “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” is a great story for use in therapy for a variety of reasons: It’s basic cultural literacy that all children should have It has many examples of comparative (biggER) and superlative (biggEST) adjectives It has a memorable refrain Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant |
Blogging Against Disablism – (updated and expanded version)
April 30th, 2009 by Beneath the Wings
The Shopping Trip- Part 2 THE PROBLEM After having Falafel for lunch, Ricki and I passed a clock store, and since I needed a watch, we entered. Ricki quickly convinced me to purchase her a timepiece. And then, as almost any teen, but with perhaps a bit less finesse, she started begging me to Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education |
Gerard Featherstone to read My Brother John at Waterstone’s in Manchester
April 30th, 2009 by the DeafBlog
<img alt=”Featherstone Gerard John.jpg” src=”http://www.thedeafblog.co.uk/Featherstone%20Gerard%20John.jpg” width=”161″ height=”197″ Joanne Zellweger and Gerard Featherstone will be reading and signing copies of their fantastic book ‘My Brother Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Swine swill swirl?
April 30th, 2009 by Raging 8th Nerve
What did that masked man say? If people here start covering their pie-hole with masks, on account of the swine flu, how will I hear? Reading lips would be impossible. Some people think this pandemic is all overblown. To them I say, kiss a pig! Imagine the scientific world spending millions on Read More
Posted in Deaf |
HLAA Convention – June 18-21st
April 30th, 2009 by Chronicles of a Bionic Woman
Hearing Loss Association of America is holding its annual convention AND celebrating its 30th birthday in Nashville, Tennessee at the monolithic Gaylord Hotel on June 18th to the 21st. You can check out the convention registration package and rates here. Hurry though, the rooms at the hotel are Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Just to Cap Off the Great Ear Week We’re Having….
April 30th, 2009 by Loudest House on the Block
I was informed that Trey has a ROCK in his ear. Yes, a dark colored rock appears to be wedged in my son’s ear canal. Is it Friday yet? Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss |
Catch 22 as NDCS challenges Government officials on acoustics
April 30th, 2009 by Campaigning for deaf children
Attended a meeting at the Department for Children, Schools and Families today about acoustics. It went well… but no major breakthrough… Yet. Some small steps are being made which bring us closer to testing acoustics in all new schools. But nothing is yet on the table that would guarantee Read More
Posted in Deaf, Uncategorized |
Your Hearing, Your Life – Free Seminar in Melville, NY
April 30th, 2009 by Chronicles of a Bionic Woman
I’m attending this free Seminar on May 11th, 7-9pm at the Melville Marriott Hotel in Melville, NY on candidacy and advancing technology in the treatment of hearing loss. Sponsored by Advanced Bionics. Featuring Speakers from North Shore Medical Group, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Eric Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
BBC TV presenter announced as competition judge
April 30th, 2009 by the DeafBlog
<img alt=”Photography competition.jpg” src=”http://www.thedeafblog.co.uk/Photography%20competition.jpg” width=”311″ height=”207″ The ‘Hear Suffolk’ competition was launched last week in the East Anglian Daily Times and has today Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hard-of-Hearing |
New Phrases
April 30th, 2009 by Tayten Matthew
From time to time, Tayten will begin with these new phrases that he repeats over and over and over and over….you get the point. For the past few months, we’ve been hearing, “At my house” and “My favorite one” and although we love to hear him talk, it is Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant |
Rationale For Mandatory Cochlear Implant Coverage
April 30th, 2009 by The Orange Deafie
INTRODUCTION Approximately 1.7% (17 out of 1000) of children have hearing loss. Left untreated, hearing loss in children delays their speech and language development. In addition to developmental delays, hearing loss in children also presents significant safety concerns and puts them needlessly Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf, Uncategorized |
What I hear you saying
April 30th, 2009 by ASL-CI
Many Deaf advocates are trying to get the message out. ASL is a wonderful language. It is beautiful, expressive and complete. Deaf people don’t need anything else. Why can’t hearing parents understand this? Why can’t hearing people in general understand this? Why do they continue to Read More
Posted in ASL, Cochlear Implant |
Surgery and Post-Op Day 1
April 30th, 2009 by Nabeel's Cochlear Implant Journey
Friends, now that I’m feeling well enough to write, I’ll tell more about my surgery and the post-op. I went into the hospital at 630 am with my mom, minimal waiting time, and before I knew it, I had an IV set up and they were wheeling me into the OR. Each of the nurses and the Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Uncategorized |
Sometimes I wish
April 30th, 2009 by Jazzie and Tahlia
Dear Jazzie: Sometimes I wish you were more social and that you would play outside with the other kids more. But then I remember that I also desperately need my alone time and I love that we are so similar in that aspect. Sometimes I wish you weren’t so darn stubborn, but then I think Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
The Best ASL Dictionary
April 30th, 2009 by The Pierced Eardrum
I have a question: What is the best ASL dictionary? Which ASL dictionary do Deaf people use? I feel like I’m most certainly missing something, because I really haven’t found what I would think of as a “good” ASL dictionary. Here are the things that a good English Read More
Posted in ASL, Uncategorized |
Day 2 of recovery
April 30th, 2009 by CI Journey
Well its day two after surgery, and I removed the big cup thingy on the side of my head. I think I may replace it too. My ear is swollen, which I believe is normal, and it looks like the doc sewed it back on a little higher than when he found it. But that could just be cause of the swelling. Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
local birdlife
April 30th, 2009 by you hear some funny things when you are deaf
It was a beautiful day yesterday. Spring is springing, everything is greening up with a vengence. MLM and I went for a walk down to our bit of river. Some osprey have nested near there and it was thrilling to see them. Did I mention that I love birds of prey? Well I do. So there they were, a rare Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing |
Yippeee ! It’s ‘Deaf’ week ?
April 30th, 2009 by At The Rim
Another didn’t know I didn’t know ! This event seems to have been completely missed by many rank and file deaf people in the UK, so is it now time to wind up these ‘weeks’ ? do they actually do anything for the deaf ? Most events seem to be run by hearing people Read More
Posted in Deaf |
Is there a Hard-of-Hearing/Deaf culture?
April 30th, 2009 by Please face me, I read lips
Last week, Shanna Groves posed a question in the Say What Club Blog. Is there a Hard-of-Hearing Culture? My gut response was NO. There’s a Deaf culture, but HH/deaf culture?? Nah. I can’t stop thinking about it. The more I learn about Deaf culture, the more I feel set apart. The main Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Late-Deafened |
Uh Oh, lesson learnt.
April 30th, 2009 by Silent Sail
I have been really good in the past 8 and half months since my activation day to carry my spare batteries. Mum used to nag me all my life to carry spare battery for my hearing aids but I always never bothered, why… For one I never really heard much through HA’s and sometimes Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
What Was That? and Watermelon vs Storm
April 30th, 2009 by Life Is About Creating Yourself
I need to start asking “what was that” when I hear something. As a deaf person I’m so used to trying to figure things out on my own and this has been carrying over with my CI. I usually try to figure out what I’m hearing and I can figure it out pretty often….but Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Happenings
April 30th, 2009 by Connor's Song
Connor’s doing fine today– he’s back to his usual happy self, and spent a lot of time giggling and asking me to play peek-a-boo, so I guess he’s feeling pretty chipper. We’ve got a neuro appointment set up for next week, and hopefully they’ll be able to help Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, SEE |
Katie-Louise’s Story
April 29th, 2009 by Cochlear Implant Online
Katie-Louise has been an Advanced Bionic cochlear implant user for 10 months and has been enjoy the use of a cochlear implant. She has a blog, Katie-Louise’s Cochlear Implant Journey, where she writes incredible passages of her hearing with a cochlear implant. She was generous to share her Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant |
Are You Talking To Me?
April 29th, 2009 by Ordinary Miracles
Was it less than a month ago that Lucas’Mommy commented on how her little guy was responding when she called, and that it would be sooner than I thought for Danny? Yes, I do believe it was. Her words were true. Our evening was typical: supper was eaten and done for everyone, and Danny was Read More
Posted in Hearing Loss |
“I won’t think about that now, I’ll think about it tomorrow.”
April 29th, 2009 by Sarasera
Surgery went fine. Everything fine. I just got home (8:30pm) – exactly 12 hours after they took me into the OR. Where’d my 12 hours go? Well, 3ish hours for surgery, 4ish hours to wake up enough to be able leave (did I tell you I spent 10+ hours in the car yesterday between work and Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Uncategorized |
15 year-old boy to meet MPs after winning prestigious deaf competition
April 29th, 2009 by the DeafBlog
A deaf teenager from Derbyshire is to give a presentation to MPs after he wrote a piece on how more could be done to help deaf and hard of hearing people. Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
About Jes’ Interview…
April 29th, 2009 by Seek Geo
Closed Caption is available. Summary: Remember the video under “Do You Know ASL?” about the interview that Jes had? Well, here is the new information about this… Read More
Posted in ASL |
Surgery was a success
April 29th, 2009 by Nabeel's Cochlear Implant Journey
I’m at home now, the surgery went fine. More later. I’m on pain meds so I’m somewhat loopy right now. It took a couple attempts to log in because I typed in the wrong password. Stay tuned. Read More
