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But... How would you explain a toddler what a CI is???? "A tool to hear better"? But that's not true, I mean, it may not work that fine... Plus that can be done with a toddler who has no language delays (sign language since birth). A deaf child born from hearing parents is not likely to be...

I'm not sure about what you mean. By law, we can have a person called "communication assistant" (who knows SL), a special ed teacher and an "educator". These 3 persons usually share the school hours with the kid, together with all the other students of his class and his teachers. Educator is...

I'm Italian! Living in Italy... And not studying English since high school :wave:

Hm, of course you're right... Pardon me, I was reading know and thinking to change that, but I couldn't think of the right word here, remember English is not my first language. I have a hard time reading and writing here, I may make a slip from time to time :roll:

Hmm... I agree with you DD, to a certain point. First of all, he disabilities you mention are mostly physical limitations, so we could say that yes, parenting a child who is blind or deaf or in a wheelchair is like parenting any other child - you have to learn the right way to cope with his...

Oh, how I hate that silly word "normal". What's "normal"??? Seems so desirable to some people. i think that we could extend the concept of "audism" to "normalism" :roll:

Well, I knew this was a hard one :roll: School has no resources at all. Only terp, and another special ed teacher who probably knows nothing about deafness. I agree with you that he should be surrounded by his peers, and a deaf teacher or terp would help, too. But... There's nothing like...

I have no opinion on Gaga, but it's a good thing for anyone to learn any sign language, in my opinion. I'm still waiting to see someone writing a song with a real ASL form, YKWIM? Like a "Englished ASL" more than a "Signed English"! That would be interesting (and useful for HHH: Hard Headed...

My children ADORE Simon's cat!! It's one cartoon they can happily enjoy together since there's no speech in it :D

Ok, so my little boy is going to start preschool in September. He'll turn 3yo in October, so he'll be very young and won't have any speech at all, I hope he'll be able to use some sign by then (he's practicing a lot in these days, I'm sure he's good at comprehension but it's always hard to tell...

Well, thanks! I guess we are all different anyway. Also, we may give different values to the world "grieving", someone may find it too strong you know... that's why I say it's like when the child is born, all mothers have different reactions... Some bond with child immediately, some need time...

Well, to tell the truth, to me there was a grieving indeed - for the child I imagined to have and wasn't there, for the future I imagined for him and now I don't know any more what will it be... But wasn't bad really, it was like when they are born and all the images in your head fly away and...

:shock: When I found out my son was profoundly deaf, I felt scared, overwhelmed, helpless, doubtful and many other things. Would never use a word like "devastated", since my son was healthy and lovely just like before dx. For tha fact that all parents wants perfect kids... BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...

Apart from ethic considerations upon posting about an unborn (or born!) child, I find facebook hopelessly B-O-R-I-N-G :zzz: Plus, I had some friendship request from people I hadn't seen for a LONG time... And for very good reasons, too :roll:

When my girl was born, I've been very surprised to find out that, after just a few days of living, she already had her ID number for taxes purposes. To have a facebook account even before being born is even worse :lol: When I see things like that I often wonder... What will happen if that...

I'm so glad CSign's son had what he needs. We'll probably have to fight for the same here -not for extracurricular activities, but for school itself- and I tell you it's even more complicated because the law is not so clear about this in our country. We'll fight for it if needed. Our therapist...

Not a silly question at all!! :lol: I know a little about it, but unfortunately Montessori approach is not very common in our schools :roll: If I could choose, a mix of Steiner and Montessori will do just fine... Before we found our about my son's deafness, I was dreaming about...

Oh well! Now you can be sure I won't leave this place anytime soon!! :lol: I think what they call "attachment parenting" is simply the natural way a human being would act with his/her little ones, with some adaptation to the environment around and personal preferences. I also try to use...

Hi there, I was wondering in anyone here is/was using an attachment parenting approach with their children. It's quite a rare thing in Italy and if it was hard for me with my hearing daughter, it's a constant fight with my deaf boy... Seems that anyone disagree with what I do with him...

Exactly. :roll: