25 Feb
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 [...]
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 that bypasses the usual hearing pathways and approximates sounds to some degree that her brain is just now learning to [...]
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 begun to sing along with the other children (a mixed group of deaf, CI deaf, HOH, and CODAs). It’s a [...]
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, wouldn’t you try it, just once? Especially if your child seemed to have some gravitational pull that kept drawing her [...]
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.
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 [...]
As I left Li-Li at school this morning, and was saying goodbye to her lovely teachers and fellow students, I called out “Bye Bye, Li-Li” although she was facing away from me and clearly involved her very exciting craft project.
She spun around and waved at me, saying somewhat clearly, “bye bye.” The room [...]
By popular demand: we changed out the music … so just what is so wrong with a little John Denver now and then? That’s Jascha Heifetz with “Ave Maria”, and Innocence Mission doing “What a Wonderful World.”
Then hear what the world may sound like through a cochlear implant
Tag: Cochlear implants