School never came easily for Zach. He was only 4 when the teachers started calling Zach’s parents to discuss his difficulty staying tuned in to the activity at circle time. He started having problems with reading in first grade and since then schoolwork has always been challenging for him. Zach’s parents realized that school would [...]
Gina was starting Pre-K at the local elementary school in a week and suddenly started crying for no obvious reason. When her parents reminded her about her new “promotion” to the school for big kids, after 2 years in a small home day-care, she said that she didn’t want to go. She HAD been so [...]
I realized it was a brave new world when my son, who is entering high school this September, told me that he’d like to put together a power point presentation for his new classmates to educate them about hearing loss! After 14 years, he has put me out of business! It used to be me, [...]
Josh had been using his cochlear implant for 9 ½ years when his device started to stop working and everything would just go silent for 5 minute spurts. The ENT told him that his cochlear implant was at the end of its “life.” He realized quickly that he would need surgery to remove the implant [...]
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