Walk4Hearing – Coming up!

So, the other day I received an email about the Walk4Hearing coming up soon, on Sunday May 3rd. This will be the 3rd annual Walk4Hearing, sponsored by the Hearing Loss Association of America (Rochester chapter), and I’m really looking forward to it.  We will join Katy’s team, with her daughter Rory.  If anyone can participate, sponsor, or donate [...]

Passing grades do not disqualify a child for special education services

I received the newest WrightsLaw Newsletter – and wanted to share the below article since I hear so many parents fighting with schools about wether their child qualifies for services or not.    Too often schools think that unless a child with hearing loss is failing and doing really poorly – they don’t qualify for services.  This is NOT [...]

Mild Hearing Loss or ADD??

“His extraneous movement did not appear to be related to his hearing loss”. Oh Really??

So… What’s YOUR Problem?!

As I mentioned before, the year AC was in 3rd grade was a bit of a rough year for us. It was the first time he really ever “got in trouble” in school. He was basically being misunderstood, and was falsely accused of misbehaving, when he simply wasn’t hearing. 
Third grade was also the first time that AC really [...]

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”.

Starting an ASL class tomorrow

I can’t wait!
It’s just an introductory course… but, still… it will be fun. 
I hope I can do it!
Next year, AC will take ASL as his language in 7th grade.  We have both been wanting to learn it for a while.  He’s hoping I can teach him a few things so he can get a head [...]

Hello world!

Just getting this up and running… so excuse the lack of info… and stop back soon. I hope to make this a place where myself and others can vent and share experiences…  as welll as share resources for parents/kids with hearing loss.
If you have any ideas of links that I should add – please let [...]