Mother’s Guilt…

As a mother, I think feeling guilty often comes with the territory.  When dealing with discovering your child has a hearing loss - and you didn’t even know it  for some time – these feelings can often surge up to al all time high.  At least they did for me back in 2001, when we realized [...]

His speech is a little off…

“you know. I doubt she (the PreK teacher) said it just to make you mad, or for fun. She IS a teacher. She DOES see 100′s of kids. Maybe you should check it out”.

Acknowledging the needs of children with mild hearing loss…

I was surfing, and found a post about a recent study and article, called: “Effect of Minimal Hearing Loss on Children’s Ability to Multitask in Quiet and in Noise“.  The full text in a PDF format, and more info can be found here: http://lshss.asha.org/cgi/content/abstract/39/3/342.  The abstract reads: Effect of Minimal Hearing Loss on Children’s Ability [...]

“The kid with the hearing aids”…

AC is way more than ”the kid with the hearing aids”…  but, labels come cheap and everyone uses them.     Below is another letter I had written 9 days after our son (then almost 4 yrs old)  was diagnosed… while we waited on getting his new hearing aids.  Reality hits home about labeling… stigma… hearing aids.  Things that [...]

Apparently, he has “permanent hearing loss” in both ears…

Below is an email I wrote from Feb, 2001 – when my son was first diagnosed with having a hearing loss. He had just turned 4. ========== Written: February 1, 2001  Hi … Well, I took AC this morning for a thorough hearing evaluation, at the advice of his Doc. As you know, we were a little [...]