A week ago (May 25th) I mentioned that I would have to go register Ricki at the special education school I am planning to send her to next year. And one day early last week we did that. This was the first time I had met the principal (I had been there once to scout-out the school, but she had Read More
Archive for May, 2009
The New School Principal
May 31st, 2009 by Beneath the Wings
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education |
Water Fun!
May 31st, 2009 by Ben's journey into a hearing world.
Ben loves his bath. He splashes, gurgles, and tries to eat the wash cloth. But, he can’t hear any of it because he has to have is hearing aids off. So….we had some water fun outside. Some splashing, no gurgling. Ben spent most of his time looking at his feet. I guess toes in the Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid |
I hate moving!!!
May 31st, 2009 by My Journey To A Cochlear Implant
This weekend has been miserably strenuous. We moved this weekend and I could just about pull my hair out from trying to get everything done. I have decided….whether we like it or not….we are staying here for at least two years. I am not packing all of our stuff up Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
(NL-0038) Mock-O-Polo (mock the deaf guy)
May 31st, 2009 by Not Listening
It’s been one of those weeks. This has been the week of delusional and irrational people. In addition to being told to “pity the poor deaf people” (see NL-0037), I had another very interesting experience earlier in the week. I was totally mocked for being deaf and Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss |
Busy Week!
May 31st, 2009 by Amanda's Cochlear Implant Journey
We have had a VERY busy, very fun week! Sunday, May 24th we went to the beach, which is something we don’t do very often because sand and a motorized wheelchair don’t mix very well. My sister was visiting from Massachusetts as well as my brother’s son and his family from Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
I Made a Survey
May 31st, 2009 by Cochlear Kids
I finally did a survey. I have other questions I want to eventually ask so I did a tester survey here. Please feel free to answer the nine questions, really short survey and these results will be posted next week on my blog. It’s anonymous, you don’t even put a name on it so parents Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Loss |
Unfit
May 31st, 2009 by Tiptoeing Through The Tulips
I’ve decided that I’m officially unfit for human interaction. I took Graham to his best girl friend’s birthday party this afternoon. I may have told someone off. I need to set this up first, so as to not look like a complete ass hole. J is a Deaf boy in Graham’s school. He Read More
Posted in Deaf |
We are still alive!
May 31st, 2009 by The Life of Evan...
My life has been crazy busy as of late…unfortunately, tending Evan’s blog has fallen to the wayside. Here is an update of recent happenings, encyclopedia style. ASL Class. The ASL class Jeremy and I have been taking since March ends tomorrow night. Unlike previous classes, our Read More
Posted in Hearing Loss |
Ancient history
May 31st, 2009 by Speak Up!
Remember this little issue? (captioning – all she’s saying is MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA nonstop.) We now are hearing all the bilabial sounds. She’s not able to put them together with vowels very well yet but we’ll take what we can get. Cows don’t say MOO in our house they Read More
Posted in ASL, Cued Speech, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
May 30th mentoring experience
May 31st, 2009 by Welcome to Sam Spritzer's Web Site
Yesterday, I received an email from someone locally who is became a successful CI candidate. I thought I would post the email and my reply for any others who may be interested. ********************************************************************************* Dear Sam: I am a patient of Dr. (name Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Cochlear Implant |
TMI: Too Much Information
May 31st, 2009 by Life Is About Creating Yourself
I learned the other day that I can sometimes tell when someone flushed the toilet (on the same floor or upstairs) when I’m at someone’s house (if it’s quiet enough to be able to pick that sound out). I also learned that I can sometimes figure out if someone washed their hands Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Gone Fishin’
May 31st, 2009 by Cochlear Kids
So we went fishing yesterday at Uncle Hassell and Aunt Christie’s pond. The kids had fun, but it was too hot for fishing really…not even a bite. The kids enjoyed it non-the-less and Brook even heard a fish jump and splash in the water. We could call across the pond to Gage and he Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant |
the top 3 CI embarrassing moments
May 31st, 2009 by Tales from a CI Gal
Now that I have enjoyed this fantastic technology for almost 2 years, It is time to reflect on the 3 most embarrassing moments. Not the gosh moments, the oh my goodness how did that happen moment. The I want to hid under the rock moment. I have had so many interesting moment, that I wanted to Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Sorenson Fixed! YAY!
May 31st, 2009 by Please face me, I read lips
I’m so excited. I finally got my Sorenson working again. Last night a Sorenson guy showed up out of nowhere. He needed to give me a new number because of some new FCC regulations. But it was strange the way he showed up so late at night. I told him my Sorenson wasn’t Read More
Posted in ASL, Hard-of-Hearing, Late-Deafened |
Implant FAQs
May 31st, 2009 by Speak Up!
1. How much does one cost? We’ve already reached our out-of-pocket-max on insurance for the year, so for us it shouldn’t cost a thing. It’s a strange, strange world when our insurance will cover an $60,000+ implant but not a $3,000 hearing aid. Not my fault they are idiots. Read More
Posted in ASL, Auditory/Oral, Cochlear Implant, Cued Speech, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
We have our activation date….
May 30th, 2009 by Bringing Molly Home
Got a letter in the mail. It has all the upcoming dates for Molly’s activation and mapping sessions. In addition to these sessions, all in Birmingham, we will also be traveling there for speech therapy…so our once a week trips will now be as many as three a week to twice a week for Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Gavin amazes Me!!
May 30th, 2009 by Frost Times
Friday morning, We are upstairs in my bedroom, with the door shut and the phone is ringing downstairs in the kitchen. Gavin hears the phone, points to his ears, and starts yelling Hello, Hello. Runs to the door, Jiggling the door handle as if saying if I can get this dang door open, I would run Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Moving forward
May 30th, 2009 by Speak Up!
This weekend we made the journey north to find out if Marielle is a CI candidate. During our initial meeting with the audiologist I asked to see the different processor choices. In an ideal world we could pick features of each and combine them into the perfect implant. (Should we move forward we Read More
Posted in ASL, Cochlear Implant, Cued Speech, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
No News Is Good News
May 30th, 2009 by Kauffman Family Update
Sorry I haven’t updated Katie’s blog recently. I think this is the longest I’ve ever gone with updating it! We have been so busy lately with school, work, house and yard work, etc., that I haven’t had a chance to write anything. And actually, we really haven’t had a Read More
Posted in ASL, Cochlear Implant, Education |
My Children are Nuts, and I love It !!
May 30th, 2009 by Cochlear Kids
First of all, if you want your eight year old to read a book, tell him there’s cussing in it! Yesterday, while I’m trying to read my book “The Shack”, I was continuously interrupted by a bored kid…I suggested “go read a book.” I got the standard no way Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
One In Severn
May 30th, 2009 by At The Rim
The long awaited launch of ‘One In Severn’ has now a release date at last ! After 3 years of discussions, campaigns, and demands from deaf people for an alternative to the RNID’s magazine, for one that would concentrate on deaf issues and not hearing ones, and finally recognise Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Deaf |
Can We Win Against Netflix? Yes. Remember Caption Action?
May 30th, 2009 by About.com Deafness
Can the deaf and hard of hearing community and its hearing friends win against Netflix in the fight to get them to put captions on their streamed video? Yes, we… Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Deaf, Hearing Loss |
Happy One Month Hearing Ava!
May 29th, 2009 by For the Love of Ava
One Month Post Activation Ava continues to astound us. In addition to consistently turning to us calling her name, she is also able to localize and hear with a lot of background noise (and with six kids coming and going there is a ton of noise!). One example is her high chair is right beside Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Doing As Best He Can…
May 29th, 2009 by Our Little Hero...
Brady is doing the best he can. He’s in a tough situation right now because he has gained his energy back which involves running around until falling asleep. The bad part is that when he runs around, his breathing becomes labored again. So we’re working hard at finding a happy medium Read More
Posted in ASL, Music, Oral |
Going Bi-lateral
May 29th, 2009 by Max and Claire's Excellent Adventure
Well. I never thought that I would say this, but it looks like we are going bi-lateral with Claire. I still hate the thought of more elective surgery and I still don’t like the idea of the extra hardware, but after much thought, many questions and one last meeting with her surgeon, Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Blog Posts of the Week: Netflix CEO An Insensitive B******
May 29th, 2009 by About.com Deafness
To see an example of insensitivity to the needs of deaf and hard of hearing people, look no further than the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings. As seen in blog… Read More
Posted in Deaf, Hearing Loss |
Doncaster Deaf School’s insight into construction work
May 29th, 2009 by the DeafBlog
<img alt=”construction site.jpg” src=”http://www.thedeafblog.co.uk/construction%20site.jpg” width=”250″ height=”188″ Students at Doncaster Deaf School have had an insight into the world of construction work from deaf employees at a housing Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Courage
May 29th, 2009 by CAUSE ME TO HEAR
I love the fact that my little boy can hear and play the piano and sing along with his older sister. Quite honestly, that is something I’ve always taken for granted, when my little ones began doing those things. I haven’t decided if I think the Internet is a blessing or a curse: the Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Music |
CI Circle Weekly Round-up May 22-29, 2009
May 29th, 2009 by The CI Circle News
Your editors apologize for the lack of posts in recent weeks (we’ve been busy getting teeth pulled, chaperoning dances, publishing information booklets and remodeling bathrooms.) So this week we’re offering a round-up of discussion topics that came up on the CI Circle Yahoo discussion Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Something Reality for my CI to thur hear me…..
May 29th, 2009 by Voyages of a Cochlear Implant. From Hard of Hearing to Profoundly Deaf....
Monday, May 18, 2009. Something Amazing is happening… My audiologist was so impressive and saying You are sooo amazing. I smiled. Because when I was in audiology booth…My audiologist tested me with 5 sentences that she spoke and I copied what she said. I got all correct. Nothing one Read More
