Articles tagged with: Being Deaf
Li-Li is happy, healthy, and ready for stereo: activation is in less than 3 weeks! Read more »
Last week, while safely in her carseat, she bit her ear mold off the processor, chewed and swallowed. Read more »
A day at Children’s Hospital: new map, plans for going bilateral this summer, audiology news Read more »
So, does Li-Li have a ‘disability’ or a ‘difference’? My dear friend Brooke says it’s something very special: a ‘diffability.’ Read more »
I don’t yet know who made this amazing video found at the ASL-Cochlear Implant Community site, but I adore it!! Read more »
Do we schedule a second implant now and reap the near term benefits of localization and better hearing in classrooms? Or wait 5, 7, or possibly 10 years until medical technology offers less invasive surgery, better approaches to stimulating or even regrowing the nerve? Read more »
Behavioral issue or job skill? For a couple of weeks, we found that Li-Li would clam up her usually chatty self and selectively use ASL in her speech classes with Christine and Laurie. … Read more »
More unprompted words from the little one (she mimics word sounds frequently, but we’re distinguishing between those and words that she says on her own and in the right context)! I’ll have to find … Read more »
Some of Li-Li’s many Massachusetts-provided programs: parent-infant program at TLC (PIP), early intervention speech class 4X a week (2 SLPs), family sign, a Deaf advocate, and more… Read more »
NECN SPORTS: Deaf basketball team making forceful statement
(NECN: Framingham, Mass.) – The Lady Ghosts play basketball at The Learning Center for the Deaf in Framingham, Massachusetts. The women are battling it out in the … Read more »
Following is Li-Li’s most recent audiogram (2/11/08), showing her current hearing level with cochlear implant compared to the same test conducted without CI in August.
A few weeks ago we increased Li-Li’s speech therapy sessions to … Read more »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3ai5IVfFdE
A son goes to his mother with a compelling secret. Will she understand? [via Dixiedawg] Read more »
I wouldn’t consider Li-Li’s CI a ‘fix’, just as I don’t think of hearing aids as a ‘fix’ for those who are deaf. She’s still profoundly deaf. She just has a very cool device … Read more »
Holy cow! From CNNMoney, looks like the Performance with a Purpose campaign is putting its money where its hands are:
On Sunday, February 3, television viewers will be checking their volume controls when PepsiCo airs … Read more »
The wee one has started singing! That’s not a typo, she started signing a while back, but singing is something new. Her teachers mentioned that where previously she would follow soundlessly, this past week she’s … Read more »
John told me it was somehow ethically wrong and that Li-Li would retain the memory forever if I pursued my experiment. But come on, if you knew your child had a magnet in her head, … Read more »
Our first basketball game: we watched the JV Lady Ghosts play against the Rhode Island School for the Deaf! Read more »
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 … Read more »
