Tag: Cochlear implants

07 Jun

Li-Li hears a Hoo

Li-Li watches Seussical from start to finish without once dashing onto the stage mid song!
06 Jun

She ate it

Last week, while safely in her carseat, she bit her ear mold off the processor, chewed and swallowed.
01 Jun

Big tech week for Li-Li: new map, plans for the summer

A day at Children’s Hospital: new map, plans for going bilateral this summer, audiology news
18 Apr

Best Friends: Li-Li and Samantha at school

Nancy Vincent sent us this wonderful shot of Li-Li and Samantha playing together at the Parent Infant Program. The wee ones received their cochlear implants a week apart this past fall.
11 Apr

Faces of ASL-CI Users

I don’t yet know who made this amazing video found at the ASL-Cochlear Implant Community site, but I adore it!!
19 Mar

Bilateral Dilemma: To bi or not to bi?

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?
10 Mar

My little ‘terp

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. And then, with Anna, her ASL teacher, she would only use spoken words instead of her familiar signs! Anna [...]
05 Mar

Li-Li’s first “big girl” Map

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 a way to keep a running list of things she now says regularly, such as “mama,” “papa,” “meow,” and “uh [...]
04 Mar

I love our social services programs!

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…
25 Feb

oo, ah, ee, sh, s, m

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 4X a week, and Li-Li has a whole new batch of toys for this purpose! We now test the [...]