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I'm not so sure either way. We had our daughter implanted at age two, thinking that she could choose to use it or not when she was old enough, but she has chosen not to use it at age four, so now we are at an impasse, do we force her to stick with therapy so that she can realize the maximum...

my daughter does a y hand shape on the back of her non dominant hand, and sort of rocks it back and forth a couple of times for yogurt.

My 4 year old daughter is deaf, she goes to a very good full time, total communication pre-school, but we are interested in getting her started in swimming lessons and soccer, stuff like that. We'd like to use the local parks and recreation, she took a swimming class over the summer, it went...

I wish there were though, my finger spelling sucks! :lol

I live in Oakland county, Michigan.We have very good resources for deaf education compared to the rest of the state. The only trouble is, it is expensive to live here, so we make sacrifices because there is no way that we could leave these services and settle for less now that we are accostomed...

My daughter was born the day after 9?11, the hosptital was on the Canadian border, the staff was more than 50% Canadian, and the borders were closed, they neglected to do the newborn hearing screen, so our daughter's deafness was not officially diagnosed until she was 18 months old. By then...

I have 5 hearing children, I am aslo hearing, and the last one, number six, is deaf, she is now 4. I would not say that terrible twos are harder with the deaf child, but they are definitely louder, which is something that most people would be surprised to learn. Gabby closes her eyes or hides...

when we are out with our deaf daughter, people interupt us when we are signing with her, telling us that they know ASL, then they will spell h-i to our daughter. We want to say, that is not sign language, that is finger spelling, big difference, but we don't want to discourage people from...

We use ASL, her language skills test at age 5 to 6, so there is no problem there. She can say some words, but does not have enough hearing to understand spoken English. My question is this, how do we teach her to control her volume when she decides to use her voice? We don't mind whther she...