Recent content by Drew's Dad

Do you guys/gals ever get tired of these arguments? Wow! Anyway, haven't visited in about a year and popped my head in. Hope everyone is doing great!

Hi Mom2Jace, Feel free to take a look at Drew's blog, Turn On My Ears! We have many of our feelings, trial and error, and other issues and topics on there that occurred from our initial discovery of his hearing loss, through implantation and now the beginning of his IEP process. I thought...

In case it helps anyone, here is an old post where we wrote about simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants.

Shel, I did write "Here he is saying 'Trick-Or-Treat'" because I had that in mind.

Thank you! He turned 2 in September, so he's 25 months old. 16 months since he got his implants.

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

Jesse, check out Music For New Ears at this link. They are involved in creating music specifically for cochlear implant users, and you might be able to talk to them to get extra credit on your project!

My thoughts above.

Recently we have unintentionally caused some discomfort to other parents by exposing their children to Drew. After they've met him they begin to wonder what is "wrong" with their kids. They figure if a deaf kid is out-talking their hearing kid, there must be a problem there. I must admit, it...

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...

The answer to all of these is yes, when my son is old enough to make those decisions. For #1 and #3, the time he'd be allowed to make that decision is fairly young. For #2, an older age.

There are many different strengths available to accommodate for the user's thickness of hair & skin. Drew has a 1 (the lowest strength), but others might need a stronger magnet. It's just strong enough to stay on while moving around, but not so strong as to be uncomfortable to the skin. Using...

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...

Thanks for asking! He is doing great. The seizure was very scary, but it was just brought upon by roseola and he is perfectly fine now. We just got back from the beach where he had a great time playing in the sand and water (we waterproofed his CI and it worked wonderfully).

I suggest you collect some additional information, such as: 1) How many implants do you have? 2) How long have you had your implant? 3) Are you pre-or post-linguistically deafened? 4) What age were you when you became deaf, what was your level of hearing loss, etc. 5) Do you feel your implant...