Tag: Deafness

21 Jan

Tone deaf

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 [...]
12 Jan

First basketball game: TLC’s Lady Ghosts!

Our first basketball game: we watched the JV Lady Ghosts play against the Rhode Island School for the Deaf!
10 Jan

Not deaf enough?!

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.
10 Jan

CSI Boston, this isn’t

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 [...]
02 Jan

From D-PAN: Waiting on the World to Change

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30 Nov

Mindblowing morning

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 [...]
25 Oct

Cochlear Implant Activation Day!

The big moment ...cochlear activation
07 Oct

Our little guitar hero: rocking her new hardware!

06 Oct

Looking for more electronic accessories to plug into her head

06 Oct

Cochlear implant incision