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The word "impaired" is really not positive at all. What about "hearing free"? :lol: Fits those with tinnitus, too, I guess. I hope I'm not being disrespectful to anyone...

All hearing people lipread! The world is not a soundooth for us, too. We uncounsciously do that all the time, helps with comprehension, especially in noisy environment. And like deaf people, some of us are good at that and some are not. I'm NOT good at lipreading, while my husband is really...

Seems the captain was either drunk or engaged in some kind of personal challenge to show off... At least, it's becoming quite common here in Italy as far as I can see. Seems that the more idiot you act, the smarter you are, of course this works if you have money and power. I have a guess on who...

Well, "sorry" is an horrible thing to say. Especially because when you first hear that "I'm sorry your child is..." you usually have all the time to imagine the worst things before the relief to know he's just deaf! Luckily (?) we didn't get that... In fact "our" doctor was all excited. He...

Well, I can'y really help you on this one since I choose not to implant... Depends what "help" means to you. Nobody can tell you for sure, but in the gret majority of cases implanted children do hear sounds. What they can do with that sound, after surgery, is not predictable by anyone. I'm...

Oh my, they are all the same aren't they? :giggle: First of all, relax!! Your kid is only 18 months old... The right age to start separating your will from his will. Plus, he's deaf, which doesn't have anything to do with discipline I guess, but it's a powerful weapon!!! My son has always used...

He looks just like my little one!! He's not interested in any sound, and he's wearing HAs for almost 2 years now. BUT he've been able, yesterday, to let me know his right aid is not working properly :roll: So I guess... It's NOT like they think. I'll give you a few examples (which will make...

Wonderful video... Makes me wish I had started SL with my son from birth. What a pity, he still can do only 2 or 3 signs. I'm looking forward to the day we'll be able to have a chat like this one!

Hearing people have no clue!! I was exactly the same!!! They assume that, if you bother to do surgery and all, it's because it will solve your "problem" (because of course, for any of us hearing people, to loose hearing suddenly would indeed be a problem - so we can't immediately understand...

I am the mother of a deaf child and I take him to speech therapy, even if I chose not to get him CI. One of the reasons we decided not to go that route is that it was quite hard for us to get out of that obsession on "what he can hear" with his aids... We worked hard on us, not him, to let go...

Hi there!! Well it's good to find someone who made the same choices about parenting... How old is your child (children)?

I have otosclerosys, was diagnosed at 19, but it's mild... Only one ear and about 50 db loss at the worst frequencies (bass). I'm pretty sure I had it as a child too, since I often could'n hear well in many situations, but I often had fluid so they never consider the possibility and I had...

Yes I'm in Italy and we don't have much here, too. And as for school... I try to live one day at a time :roll: he's in kindergarden now and he seems ok, we try to make him stay with other deaf kids whenever is possible, and that's it. for now. But there should be some deaf community somewhere...

Kat05, I jump in just to give you another parent's perspective on the whole thing...My son is 3 yo and veeery profound (althought his hearing tests are still not reliable - many deaf people told me we can't take results for granted until he's 7 or 8 yo and really wanting to cooperate). Like you...

Yes Deafdyke, oralism is the most used especially if you do therapies at the hospital. Therapists that teach speech with their mouth covered, no gestures, no lipreading... Of course to get results with profoundly deaf kids thay have to implant them. There are parents who choose a different path...

That's so sad!! My hearing girl is 5 and even if we can communicate easily, I'd bet if I sent her to live in a dorm she would think exactly the same: that I dropped her. No matter how much you explain, they're just too small... Days, weeks, are still hard to imagine. You can tell them "I'll come...

Thanks for welcoming us back! Of course I'd be happy if he could go to a Deaf school later on... It's not a problem of us not wanting it, more that those schools don't really exist here :roll: It's Land of Oralism, you know. The only school that has a deaf program is 2 hours away and it is a...

I'm back! Hi there, some time is passed since I last visited here... I had some health problems, but I'm better now and I felt it was kinda bad to keep on reading here without telling you about us. My boy started kindergarten finally! He's in the same class as his sister for this year (next...

Grendel, don't you think that there is a difference between "fluently" and "effortlessly"? I mean, many people are fluent in languages that are not their mother one, but this doesn't mean they make no effort in using it. In my town there are many people who are bilingual, but not many of them...

Yes, I've seen a lot of those between my friends' kids! There are the ones who start saying "babababa" and then point to things and say names, like "mum" "cat" and so on... Then there are some of them who just dtart babbling with the right intonation, like "babababhdgsfhklshflbubu?" and slowly...