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We had engaged early intervention (SLP and OT) services prior to adopting my daughter from China, expecting we'd need to catch up in language and development issues since she was coming from a a very poor and rural orphanage with little medical or educational care. At 1YO, she had no language...

How did you cope when your HAs were being fixed? Were you 'nonfunctional'?

From the VL2 Science of Learning Center: TODAY Dr. Peter Crume, from Georgia State University, will present "Teachers’ Perceptions of the Use of ASL Phonological Instruction to Develop ASL and English Literacy in an ASL/English Bilingual Preschool." The presentation will take place on Wednesday...

Grow up. I'm answering Frisky's questions.

Right, I think most of us didn't realize we have that right, so I'm grateful to Csign for pointing it out or I might not have asked my school if I could try it out. This shows some great uses of the system: http://www.phonak.com/content/dam/phonak/b2b/C_M_tools/FM/Hear-Better-With-FM.pdf

Suzanne, that's such a tough question to answer. Comparing to see which would be better depends so very much on the individual schools, the teachers and services your kids get and even on each of your kids. One child might do best in one school, the other in a different one. And there are...

She has started using a personal fm system at school at the start of the school year. Her teacher will let us take it home tomorrow to try it out. I'll post what we find.

An FM system is a tiny less than fingernail-sized receiver you can attach to the bottom of the HA or to CI that receives a direct transmission from a microphone. Sometimes the teacher wears the mic, so that even in the back of a loud classroom, the child can hear the teacher's voice clearly...

Suzanne brought up questions about the fm system. I think the discussion is about whether or not an FM system could be useful in school, and out of school. Csign mentioned that we parents of profound/severe deaf kids have a legal right to use our child's FM outside class -- for things as...

? I was talking about wearing a personal FM system, not having speech therapy.

We don't have it at home yet, only at school, but I'm considering trying it just because she had mentioned that she wished we had it in the car :).

I think that's a valid point. Just check in with your kids -- if the FM system is a benefit in a particular situation, they'll want to use it. If not, then don't. I think fm systems should be available for children to try in any circumstance, though -- in class, during sports, watching tv...

Thanks. Yes, we have many, many times arranged for an ASL interpreter for my daughter and her deaf friends outside of school: at birthday parties, at parks in mixed groups of deaf and hearing, at many plays, at CI conferences, at bands. A couple of weeks ago we attended a festival at which...

As others have pointed out already, flip in an ASL terp for an FM system and replay your comment to see how it just doesn't make sense to argue AGAINST an accommodation that helps someone communicate:

I'd probably get those broken items fixed. No, hearing via an HA or a CI may "never be as good as nautrally occuring hearing" as you say, but the whole point here is that naturally occurring hearing isn't really an option and doesn't exist for my profoundly deaf daughter, or for many other...

Our CI clinic audis typically sign with my daughter -- especially since the CI microphone has to be off during the mapping. Some have been fluent, some less so -- but they always know enough to communicate what's going on, why, what's being changed, etc.

In my daughter's classes there are smartboards, televisions and bluray systems, even Wii systems set up to broadcast interactive math games. There might be another sound system competing, increasingly elementary schools have Soundfield systems in place regardless of whether or not there's a...

I clicked on it,and when I couldn't see it I deleted the m. from the beginning of the link, which brought me to the regular youtube page.

It wasn't me who brought it up, Frisky. See the post prior to mine. And it's not ancient history: as recently as this summer a current poster continued the harassment on AD.

Suzanne, you are going to get valuable insight from those who were born with severe-profound loss about their lives. Unfortunately, you're also getting a lot of misinformation when those who know well what it meant to be deaf 30, 40, 50 years ago, and what the technology and educational options...