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Archive for the ‘Speak Up’ Category
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Currently, there are two very important pieces of legislation awaiting approval in the United States Senate:
The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2010 (S. 3199) aka “Newborn Hearing Screening” passed in the House of Representatives but also needs to pass in the Senate so that screening and early intervention programs for newborns continue to [...]
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 [...]
Monday, March 8th, 2010
My independent learning project this semester is: Listening and Spoken Language Outcomes for Children who are Deaf with Multiple Disabilities… and I need your help! My goal is to determine the current state of research as well as real-world practice in the field of LSL for children who are multiply involved. Is listening and spoken [...]
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Anyone who’s attended an AG Bell or other deaf-related convention knows how many tote bags you can accumulate in the span of just a few days of browsing the exhibit hall. I use these awesome canvas-y bags to carry my groceries instead of paper of plastic bags in the store check-out line. My purpose is [...]
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Congratulations! You are the parent of a wonderful child, and, among many other wonderful traits, your child happens to have a hearing loss. Now, on top of running to school events, work, and other family obligations, you have also earned yourself a new job title: ADVOCATE.
For some parents, advocacy comes naturally. Sometimes, these are the [...]
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Congratulations to Mel Paticoff, leader of the HearingExchange Teens group on Facebook, her very musically talented sister, Dani, and their cousin, Julie (bilateral CI recipient and daughter of bilateral CI recipient and HearingExchange founder Paula Rosenthal) for their winning video “That’s Just the Way We Hear!” which won the American Speech-Language Hearing Association’s Better Hearing [...]
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
The Hearing Aid Tax Credit or, more formally, the “Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act” will soon be up for a vote in both the US House and Senate. According to the Better Hearing Institute, the Hearing Aid Assistance and Tax Credit Act will:
Provide a tax credit towards the purchase of each hearing aid of [...]
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, [...]
Friday, November 28th, 2008
As someone who has been wearing cochlear implants since the age of 2 and a half years old and has appreciated the miracles of hearing and speaking, I always wanted to thank all the people who are involved in the process of fabricating the cochlear implants. Because the cochlear implants I wear are produced by [...]
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Last April, the United States House of Representatives passed the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EDHI) Act of 2007. This legislation would expand grants to fund newborn hearing screenings and early intervention services. Now, the bill is up for a vote in the senate as the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Act of 2007 [...]
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