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Archive for the ‘Medical Care’ Category
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
A few months ago, I posted THIS asking for reader opinions and feedback on the subject of children with hearing loss and additional disabilities. This spurred an independent learning project, and I promised to share with you all what I learned. Here is what I found…
STATISTICS: WHO ARE THESE CHILDREN?
Approximately 40% of children with hearing [...]
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Is my child receiving good services from our teacher of the deaf/SLP/AVT/early interventionist? Well, how on earth would I know? How can I tell “good” therapy when I see it? How do I choose between Program A and Program B for my child? Where do I go from here?
Most parents of children with hearing loss [...]
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
These pictures are from the Costa Rica trip. Thank you so much to the administrators, parents, teachers, and students who allowed us to observe and capture these memories.
*Please note that some of the therapy techniques, activities, and situations shown here might not be my first choice of listening and spoken language intervention. The represent solely [...]
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Two weeks ago, I attended an excellent presentation on deaf education in Costa Rica. The presenters were listening and spoken language educators, one of whom completed her training at Fontbonne in St. Louis, MO, USA. Together with other listening and spoken language professionals in Costa Rica, they are active members of Adis, an organization dedicated to:
1. [...]
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
With advances in medicine allowing children born sicker and sicker to stay alive, and even thrive, the population of “just deaf” children is shrinking. More and more of the children we see in schools or clinical practices will have hearing loss along with a host of other issues. Deaf-blindness is one “common” combination. Children can [...]
Friday, April 24th, 2009
When I was in 5th grade and learning about how to write a bill in class, I wrote a mock bill requiring all medical insurance companies to cover cochlear implants as I felt that every person deserves access to sounds, if the parents of deaf children and adults who are deaf choose to have it. [...]
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Here is a video of Rachel’s presentation at TCU. As you can tell, Rachel is the filmmaker, not me! But bear with me, because she has some great things to say — captioned, of course!
RACHEL TCU SPEECH 1/3
Then we had a little technical difficulty… Rachel showed THIS video from Cochlear Implant Online.
RACHEL TCU SPEECH 2/3
Then, [...]
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