There is a lot of research that demonstrates how the mother’s role is crucial in the development of children with hearing loss. This should not come as a big surprise – mothers are unarguably very important in the lives of ALL children, with hearing loss and without hearing loss. There is also a significant amount [...]
A reader wrote: “I do want to point out that there are many Spanish or other kind of family growing up in America and the Spanish/Mexican kids speak Spanish with their parents and family and have to go to school and use ENGLISH. Is that any different??” Yes, dear reader, I think it is. As [...]
Imagine: you and your spouse have given birth to the most beautiful baby girl. She is perfect, with 10 tiny fingers and 10 tiny toes and a little dimple on her chin – just like her dad. Everything went smoothly and as you prepare to leave the hospital and take your baby home, there is [...]
Teri and Bob had been very involved in their daughter’s education and her life from the start. When they found out that their beautiful baby girl Emily (she is their second child) was deaf, it shook up their whole world. Teri took a leave of absence from her job in order to give Emily all [...]
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 [...]
Often parents will approach a mental health professional when there is a specific problem that is troubling their child. Their toddler wakes up at night, is biting at daycare, or crying too frequently. Their school-aged child is having discipline problems at school, fighting with siblings or refusing to do homework. But sometimes parents of a [...]
For children whose hearing loss is diagnosed at a young age and start using hearing aids or cochlear implants at a young age, the question of whether they will always have this impairment is one that parents may not be prepared for. Jessie’s severe hearing loss was diagnosed at 3 months old and she could [...]
More than 50 children with hearing loss (and cochlear implants) participated in my research program at the University of Maryland in College Park. I recruited children from every organization and parent group that I could find. I got in touch with wonderful group of parents had developed an organization to share information and created a [...]
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