This is such a beautiful commentary from Lauren Ridloff. Li-Li may have a cochlear implant, but my beautiful, profoundly deaf, ASL-using, school-for-the-deaf-attending cyborg child IS deaf enough and some day she’ll show all you cranky anti-CI types what Deafhood means.
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The flurry of medical excitement over Li-Li’s recent cochlear implant is fading a bit, and we’re considering bilateral implantation, although less urgently than our efforts to get that first surgery completed prior to 2 years, after which the brain is increasingly less plastic, mapping is not so easily achieved, and by which time it is [...]
Our first basketball game: we watched the JV Lady Ghosts play against the Rhode Island School for the Deaf!
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Beautifully said!!
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Loved the last sentence! You go, girl!
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Um, yea.
Pretty much the nail and the hammer meet.
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I love her confidence, strength and the power of that message, all delivered with so much graciousness in such a lovely language.