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Archive for the ‘CI User Story’ Category
Monday, April 26th, 2010
A mom of a child with a cochlear implant created this very emotional film about raising her adorable son with cochlear implants. It is absolutely worth spending a few minutes to watch the film!
Here is the transcript for the lyrics from the song, The Climb, by Miley Cyrus, which is played in the video:
I can [...]
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
I just discovered this great video of various cochlear implant users living in Singapore speaking about their joys of having the ability to hear and speak and participate in endless number of activities that would be very difficult to do without having the ability to hear such as playing the piano, playing the violin, and [...]
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Laura has an extraordinary life as she triumphed over many obstacles including dealing with an infection that she could not fight off and caused the removal of an implant. She has her own blog at Laura’s Medical Journey, which provides insightful stories of her life as a cochlear implant user and overcoming other medical issues. [...]
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Right after my trip in France, I headed to Germany to meet a handsome young boy who was bilaterally implanted at the age of 10 months. His parents utilized the Auditory-Verbal approach to teach him language through hearing and speaking. I met him when he and his family came to the US about six years [...]
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
This past summer, on my way to France, I stayed with Vivie, the Greek CI blogger, for a few days in Greece. We certainly did experience lots of great laughter, especially when we got hit by the old granny who called our CIs the strange earrings, ate wonderful Greek food, swam in the most beautiful [...]
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
I finally had a chance to watch last week’s episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which featured a bilateral cochlear implant recipient (read more background info HERE and HERE). Though there wasn’t a whole lot of discussion of the implants on the show, what was said appeared very positive and factual to me — i.e. [...]
Monday, October 12th, 2009
Back in July, I blogged about an upcoming episode of the ABC television show “Extreme Home Makeover” that was being filmed about Carlton Marshall and his family. At the time, it was unclear when the episode was to air. Well, I just received an exciting update via the Cochlear Community. The episode of Extreme Home [...]
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Last May, when I was at AGBell’s Talk, Walk, Run event, I met an adorable boy who is hearing bilaterally with cochlear implants. He and his mom were delighted to share their story.
We learned of Will’s hearing loss after a routine hearing check after the insertion of ear tubes for ear infections. It was [...]
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
This past weekend, my mom and I were privileged to meet Lydia, the guru for creating the most incredible CICircle website, and her son, Jeremy, in Boston. Jeremy was delighted to be interviewed for this website!
Lydia shared her story about Jeremy’s journey to the hearing world:
Jeremy’s severe-profound hearing loss was discovered when he was 13 [...]
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Cory and Joanie, an adorable set of fraternal twins, were both born profoundly deaf due to Connexin 26 and both received bilateral cochlear implants when they were one year-old. They attended an oral school, Atlanta Speech School, for preschool, and they are currently mainstreamed at a private school and thriving. Both of them were enthusiastic [...]
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