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I agree with blaze, Thank you for posting this. There were a couple things that I didnt think of. And I too am printing this out. Lillys surgery is in 1 week

No, it was a theoretical name. But thank you. Last night, I was thinking about getting in the class and teaching kids, I do not know if it was the s.e. class, or if it was sign language, or what, but that was without a doubt, the most fun I have had at work in years!

Update, I taught the whole class some sign so they can communicate with her. They loved it! I helped them create a deaf name for each of them. I asked them what they liked. Then I used the first letter of their name and the word for what they liked. example- Rodney likes to run. So His sign name...

Change of plans! Now instead of loaning the DVD to the teacher, I am showing it to the class and introducing them to sign. Umm, I'd hate to say it, because I am definately not qualified to even speak these words, but I am going to teach them some sign. Just the basic stuff so they may...

Thanks everyone! Shel, "I learned that some of them communicate better when standing behind their backs and extending my arms around their body and signing in their visual view" That is exactly the satuff I was looking for! I read that, and went to the classroom to tell the teachers this...

OK, More info. I just finished helping the hteachers with this girl. She mentally retarded, deaf and autistic. She came from a school where the teacher knew sign language. Her IEP did not say anything about needing a translator. DUH! The other school wrote a bad IEP and passed ti on to us. SHe...

Thanks guys! I do not yet know about the IEP. As I said, it seems the girl was put here without the teachers knowing everything about her. They were caught off guard by her deafness. Until they can get the proper protocols in place, I am just trying to at least help the teachers communicate with...

Hey everyone, I need some help here. Politics and personal beliefs aside here, as some know I am a cop. I am a sxhool resource officer in a jr. high school that has a "special ed" program. Today is the first day back from xmas braek, and they got a new kid. The faculty was not properly informed...

WOW! 3 months! Im very happy that the baby was diagnosed at birth. I am convinced Lilly was misdiagnosed at birth. We were in the hospitla 5 days following birth. The state of Missouri requires newborn hearing screening. Lilly failed the first two times. We were assured that she failed the test...

Sorry, I just have to add this little side comment here, I went to school with a girl named Patience. We all know the old saying "Patience is a virtue" Well, we used to say (and I actually still say) 'Patience is a virgin". Sorry, I'll get my coat.............................

DD, Contrary to popular belief, ENT doctors will not implant anyone that wants a CI and passes the CT scan. I sat through a very informative forum in which the leading ENT docs, speech pathologists, and several others, discussed bilateral implantation. The person you spoke of with good use of 1...

Shel, The criteria for CI candidacy is, and contiunes to change. Lilly was implanted in sept of 2005. When she was implanted, she was one of the youngest in the midwest, and the youngest to recieve the freedom. She was 18 months. We were told that her age was pushing the limits. Now, they just...

We keep going back and forth about going to Tx. It might not be a good idea with Lilly being so freshly operated on.

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!! We just got a call from the hospital. They moved the surgery date forward to the 17th!!!! Thats only 12 days from now!!

I always refer to an incident that happened last winter when talking about how well Lilly can hear with her CI. She hears things that I cannot. I had Lilly at work with me. We were standing in the hall talking to someone, when Lilly turmed her heard towards an open door, then walked over to it...

ITS THURSDAY!!!!!!!!! LET US KNOW WHEN ITS CONFIRMED!!!! CONGRATULAIONS BY THE WAY!!!! Feb 1st is right around the corner,and the day after Lilyl gets hers, and a few days before Frags sons bilateral, and around the same time as Victorias . Man! WE are a bunch of CI freaks!! Oh well, the...

There are clinics that are genetically changing a hearing unborn baby into a deaf unborn baby? That is what I was referring to.

Lilly gets mapped at her school. It is about ten minutes from here. Worst case scenario, like a month or so ago, Lillys CI stops working on a weekend. We wait until monday, send it to school with her to get fixed/remapped.

besides the warranty isssue being a reason to not open the back up, when a newer better nucleus CI repplaces the freedom, if the back up has not been opened, you can trade it on for the upgrade. I know it will be years from now, but hey, we're not using it now/yet. Ya never know, may come in...

This is the first time I have opened this thread, and I didnt read any posts to it. To answer the original post, Yes, someone that is profoundly deaf, can talk "normally". My daughter does, she will try to short cut proper speech, but when she speaks, she is very easy to understand.