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.
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 [...]
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A son goes to his mother with a compelling secret. Will she understand? [via Dixiedawg]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This morning I stayed with Li-Li a little bit longer than usual at school, and dropped her off at the parent-infant program that meets for a few hours on Wednesday mornings. The kids and parents were just starting to come in — the session wouldn’t start for some time yet. I introduced Li-Li [...]
Our first basketball game: we watched the JV Lady Ghosts play against the Rhode Island School for the Deaf!
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.
Category: Deafness