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From southern IL myself, nice to meet you! I am not Deaf, but have an 18 month old daughter who is profoundly deaf and I find it is nice to chat with the people here as it helps me to understand how my daughter may feel as she gets older, things I could do for her, see different opinions on...

Aww, sorry to hear that xunixan! That doesn't seem fair at all, how can they just bump you and then tell you it's going to be months before you can get it now? I've got my fingers crossed that it's sooner than they expect for you. I cannot imagine being an adult and wanting this for yourself and...

Thank you! I am not a member there and am definitely going to check it out. I'm full of mixed emotions now and could really use some support from other parents of children who use CIs. I just found out that our insurance really did approve her and for a proper amount, and though it isn't quite...

Awesome! I'm glad things are moving along for you! You must be so excited, I hope insurance hurries up so you can get a date set :D My daughter is still waiting on insurance too, such a pain because a date opened up and I'm not sure we will get the OK in time to schedule her for it.

I was called last night by Zoe's choclear implant team, they had a cancellation and a date open up the 21st of this month. That would be great (although I feel a little sick thinking about it) except that they said our insurance hasn't approved her yet. Well I called our private insurance...

Thank you everyone! We hope all goes smoothly with insurance, I haven't dealt with the actual idea of surgery just yet, I'm kind of putting off my break down until after a date is set lol. Alex - Awesome!! Congrats to you for completing your eval! Hope everything goes well for you!!

I'm just so excited and had to share! Zoe has been lagging behind on her HA testing required to finish her cochlear implant evaluation. The past 2 appointments she completely bombed, 1 due to too much fluid in her ears from an infection and the other due to having a substitute audiologist who...

Usually when people think of redheads they think of the people with the orangy hair and freckles, not so much the Princess Ariel type as I think that it's extremely hard to find someone with actual natural RED hair. poor gingers xD

JMH - Thanks for the compliment! She's GORGEOUS, I'd pay big money to look half that good :D

@Grummer - Yeah, same way with our family, my hair fades to a reddish color more than a blondish color in the summer like most peoples. Bleach turns my hair bright orange instead of yellow, so highlights are a no go (I found that out the hard way haha). My bro is like you, he's got the same...

Thanks ^_^

Lol, love the song. I'm really starting to feel pretty great about it, like it's going to be such an experience raising a child who requires me to learn and grow so much more as a person. Not that my other daughter who is hearing doesn't do the same, but it's just in a much more typical kind of...

I'm super pale w/ freckles, curly hair, and blue/green eyes myself - just missing the red hair lol. It's funny because everyone is always asking if my hair is red, and I'm thinking.. if my hair was red would you need to ask me? Obviously it isn't :P This picture I was 18 (23 now x_X), but it's...

Brunettes are down to earth and intelligent, Red heads are high strung and passionate, blondes are gorgeous but dim witted lol. None of these things are nec true, they're just stereotypes for hair color and I don't even know one for people with Black hair :o Gingers are natural red heads and...

I am trying my best to understand.

I just really believe if we are going to put her through speech therapy in hopes of her understanding spoken language that we owe it to her to meet her half way by learning and using ASL daily along with speech. If it turns out she has a preference than we will make sure to lean that way be it...

Hi there! I'm fairly new here too and a hearing mother to a deaf toddler :D I am trying to learn ASL myself, but not sure if I even know enough to bother with skype just yet, makes me nervous haha. I'm not in MO, but I am in southern IL and go to St Louis Children's Hospital for all of Zoe's...

Oh and I'm keeping an eye out for more ASL or Communication seminars from StarNet, I recently went to Sign Language for Beginners in Belleville, IL and loved it :D

We work with Sarah from ISD as part of their outreach program, we get speech therapy from St Louis Children's Hospital, more speech therapy from Child and Family Connections/Early Intervention, I recently have gotten in touch with Illinois Hands & Voices as well as Illinois Guide By Your Side...

We are actively learning ASL as a family and plan to do so no matter how well she is able to hear :)