Recent content by rockymountainmama

Hello again everyone! It looks like my first post introducing myself has turned into quite the lively debate. I figured I'd start a new post to start a new topic. I'm a teacher in Colorado and just the other week was down at our state capitol with teachers from all around the state protesting...

I'm speaking in regards of how to teach children who are born profoundly Deaf/prelingually Deaf. Even in children with amplification I know in Colorado's Child Find Home Intervention program for birth through age 3 ASL instruction is the ideal. Even in infants with implantation, where its...

Wow again I come back to this and it's really gone off again. I can only speak to being a current Deaf educator in the US with a 7 year old daughter who is has been profoundly Deaf since birth. Honestly on the education side what @zeefour is posting is in line with everything being taught and...

Wow, I missed a lot here! @Teacherofthedeaf thank you for sharing your beliefs. I have to agree with @zeefour however. I'm currently the Special Education Coordinator for our school district. I previously was the head of Deaf Education in another larger city school district after I taught...

@Tristen I live in the mountains of Colorado, so very close!!

Aren't they! Brianna was born with bilateral profound sensoneural hearing loss. I became septic from a blood infection when I was 34 weeks pregnant. I was in ICU and they had to immediately start me on one course of IV antibiotics. I was induced, and then after I gave birth I was treated with...

Thank you so much everyone for the kind words and warm welcome! @femme Fatale is your daughter Deaf/HoH or hearing? Three is such a fun age. We tried swimming when my oldest was young but she was always upset and said her ears hurt. Right now it's just me and my girls. We put Bri in gymnastics...

Oh my gosh! I live in Summit County Colorado and we need snow SOOOO badly, please send some our way!

Hello! My name is Kristen. I'm a 38 year old mother of 3. My oldest son is 21 and lives across the country and just had a baby girl of his own. My daughters are 7 and 5. My 7 year old Brianna, was born profoundly Deaf. I used to be an interpreter before moving to where we live now, where I...