Tag: Deafness

01 May

More, more, more (hey, it’s blogging against disablism day!)

So, does Li-Li have a ‘disability’ or a ‘difference’? My dear friend Brooke says it’s something very special: a ‘diffability.’
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…
29 Feb

Li-Li’s School in the News

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 New England Prep Schools Tournament, and they are the only deaf team in the brackets.
02 Feb

Coming Out

WPvideo 1.10 A son goes to his mother with a compelling secret. Will she understand?  [via Dixiedawg]
01 Feb

It must be very hard

29 Jan

In something of a fix

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 [...]
24 Jan

If a television commercial airs on Super Bowl Sunday and no one hears it, does it make a sound?

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 a 60-second commercial filmed in American Sign Language (ASL), with open-captioned text for the benefit of all viewers. The spot [...]