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Kayla has a profound hearing loss and she wore HA for about 8 months and had very little benefit from them. When she's older and decides she dosent want to wear her implant, then that would be her decision and i would support her with whatever she chooses to do. So far she's very happy with her...

I think it's Iraq's oil Bush is interested in. He can use the "freedom" excuse all he wants but its the oil he's after.

We live in Chicago IL

Thanks Jag, great advice! This will really help at the IEP meetings.:ty:

DD, i know you mean well and i thank you for your advice. As for Kayla's delay, it's definately not expressive and her speech sounds quite natural. People actually don't realize she is deaf until i mention it to them. Her language is probably what could use some help. But Kayla loves learning...

My daughter Kayla received her implant in 2003 at the age of 2. She got the Nucleus implant and we are currently in the process of upgradeing to the Freedom. She is making great progress.

Thanks dd, i am aware that things will get alot tougher as she gets into the later grades and i will keep my options open. For now i will take take it grade by grade and go from there. If i see her struggling to much with her schooling later on, then i would seek other placements for, e.g...

My daughter also can understand without having to lipread. The lipreading definately helps in noisy situations and in the bathtub. She loves music and will actually sing a few versus from her favorite songs on the radio. Although in the beginning she did not like the radio at all, so i would...

I keep a pretty close eye on her with her interaction with the other kids at school as well as her education because of course i want to make sure she's not feeling isolated and again that's why volunteer alot for being a classroom parent. So far i don't see any problems and i think thats...

Wow thats great, i'll keep Isaac in my prayers tonight. I hope everything goes smooth for him and you are about to enter an exciting new journey! Good luck with everything.

Thanks for the positive feedback guys. Kayla is the only one in her school who is dhh. The school does have a speech pathologist, but your right DD, she does not have any training in working with dhh kids. So in that case, they are bringing in someone that does. The school has to accomidate to...

Hi all, just making a thread here to see how well your child's progress is doing with their CI in school. As for my daughter Kayla, she started kindergarden this year and is absolutley loving school...actually she's excited about riding the school bus, lol. So far she's doing great in school...

Don't think of yourself as being a nuisance!! This is your education and the school has to provide you with the accomidations you need. Unfortunately, sometimes you just have to keep ragging on them but hey it's not your fault they are taking their time.

Hi, just wondering if any Nucleus24 implant users recieved a letter in the mail from Cochlear saying that you were now able to upgrade your Nucleus24 to the Freedom. I remember asking about it when Freedom first came out and they were'nt sure at the time if it would be compatible. I just...

:welcome: Hi and welcome. YOur daughter is beautiful!! I am also hearing with a deaf child with a CI. She's 5 years old now and she received her CI at 2. I know sometimes ins companies like to drag but good luck with everything. If you have any questions, feel free to pm me.

I take my daughter to av therapy every week and i can't see how a program could possibly help as much as 1 on 1 contact with a therapist. I think it would be quite challenging actually because you could misinterpret what the program is saying. I would think it would be ok to get the program...

I used to get a lot of anxiety myself, it made me crazy. Going back to school can definately cause anxiety if your prone to it. What really helped me out was reading a great book on anxiety by Lucinda Basset called "From Panick to power". A lot of great advice and ways to control your anxiety...

I tried the time out method...never worked for my daughter. I tried the take away privliges...that never worked either. I think i tried everything under the sun. The only way i was ever able to get through to her was by giving her a spanking. Sometimes thats the only thing that works with...

Hi, my 5 year old uses a fm system and the only thing that's a problem with it is that it weighs down her earpiece.It's a very small attachment but it still weighs it down a bit. Other then that it helps her so much in school and noisey situations. When she has it on, i could be in another room...

Hi Isaacsmom, i am a hearing parent of a deaf child. Kayla is 5 and was implanted at the age of 2. Everyones expierence is different but i had a positive one. At the initial hook up in Kayla's case, there was no response. I was'nt worried about it because the audiologist let me know ahead of...