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We took Drew out Trick or Treating last night. He did a great job, saying "Trick-Or-Treat" and "Thank You" to all the nice people that handed out candy. Here he is saying "Trick-Or-Treat"! Trick-Or-Treat

Take a minute to check out the Music For New Ears page on Ideablob.com. These guys are trying to win a $10,000 grant to start a collaboration between speech and language professionals and musicians to create music designed specifically to appeal to CI users. You can help this come to...

A while ago I made a short video explaining the parts of Drew's cochlear implants, and posted it to his blog in the hopes that it might help some people who had never really seen one (and how it is assembled) before. A few people said it was helpful, so I also made a captioned version of the...

After the Kentucky Derby I posted how interesting it was to see that the jockey's son, Jake, had bilateral cochlear implants (Kentucky Derby and Cochlear Implants). After looking into his story, I saw that he also had Usher Syndrome. Well since then I have come across more information about...

If you watched the Kentucky Derby today you may have noticed Jockey Kent Desormeaux's son Jake with his bilateral Advanced Bionics CI's. Evidently he was born deaf in 1999. Here is an article. Interestingly, his father (the jockey) lost his hearing in his right ear after a racing accident...

I figure that because there's an abundance of free-flowing, good-natured information exchanged about hearing aids and cochlear implants in here that it might be fun to try to find something to disagree on. I'm not sure if anyone can think of anything to argue about, but here's your chance to...

Some of you know that my son Drew had simultaneous bilateral implants the first week of June, and now he has been activated! For those that might be interested, we have some short video clips up of Drew's activation day and a clip from the next morning where he responds to a drum. The link...

My son's surgery was last week, and he is doing well. He received simultaneous bilateral implants (Nucleus Freedom) and is now the youngest child in Ohio to have done so at just under 9 months. He was groggy in the recovery room but quickly came to and chugged a serving of Pedialyte. His...

I don't understand the characterization of "letting the child decide" (whether to get an implant). I see this many places as the sole argument against giving infants or young children a cochlear implant, with the only reason given being that it is simply bad because parents shouldn't be making...

On this site I read a lot of stories of cochlear implants "not working" and "failing" advanced by those who don't favor CI's. If devices are failing, or people are failing in having success with properly functioning CI's, then that's good information to know. It helps us all make informed...