Recent content by Yankuba

It is frustrating. You would think if they don't cover hearing aids they would offer a separate plan like they do for vision. Our son's hearing aids cost $2,500 each and he received no benefit! But we had to try. We could not return them because we had to wear them 6 months for the CI...

This event takes place this weekend at Downtown Disney California....too bad it is supposed to be pouring rain all weekend. I hope they will move all scheduled performances and events indoors. They are having interviews with cast from Switched at Birth, performances by deaf artists, ASL...

I was going thru my son's "briefcase" of CI parts and found an envelope that contained stickers for the med el CI. He is loving them! I think it was a great idea. I am going to take them to a sticker store (they can use the sticker as a pattern) to have some custom ones made. The stickers...

Because my son is deaf.

We chose to adopt our son. We knew he was deaf before we adopted him. We are hearing and yes we were excited! Regardless of our excitement love and amazing son we were immediately bombarded with crazy difficult educational choices, strong opinions from both hearing and deaf...family, friends...

We go tubing on the lake every summer. My son just received his implant. He of course will not be wearing the external part while tubing.....but I am now wondering if it will be safe with the internal part...as far as injuries to the head. We are always bumping each other and the tube flips and...

One of the new colors is ebony. It looks black on some brochures but in person it is just a "different" shade of dark brown not black at all.

I have thought about that.....hahaha....really! Just can't take the risk of messing it up...

I have tried to contact Med El by email but no success. Will try again. I will look at the ear gear. Thank you all.

opus II It is for my 5 year old son. His hair is black so really wanted black...was surprised to see they do not have black. Since he is young and just adjusting we thought it would be fun for him to have Mickey Mouse or a favorite character to make him more excited to wear it. He just had...

Have you found a "skin" or cover for your implant. I checked with "skin it" company and they don't make it and they would not make a custom one for it either. Any ideas....I will resort to stickers for my son if that is all I can find.

adoption Please learn as much ASL as you can before she comes home. You will need to know as much as you can so that you can comfort her when she arrives....and if she already knows ASL she will be comforted to know that you have the same language. You are very lucky/blessed to have her...