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, [...]
Eva Marks, 4 years old, was asked to be the flower girl in her uncle’s upcoming wedding. It was a very exciting time for the whole Marks family and Eva, who liked to dress up as a bride in pretend play time, was caught up with the excitement too. Her parents were really touched that [...]
Ok, it is still frustrating… Even if the glass is half full. I posted what I hoped was an optimistic and balanced perspective on how having a child with a hearing loss is not the end of the world last week. I felt good about it – spreading the message about riding the waves of [...]
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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