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Archive for the ‘Video’ 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 [...]
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 [...]
Monday, January 25th, 2010
This hilarious video from the Argentine Foundation for the Hearing Impaired argues that, “If there’s nothing you won’t do for your child, have them take a simple routine [hearing] test” and gets the point across in a very memorable way!
TRANSCRIPT: Though the actors’ lips are moving, there is no audible dialogue. Piano music plays throughout [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Monday, June 8th, 2009
When someone is deaf due to a recessive gene and marries someone who has normal hearing, one would think that their children would have normal hearing, right? Well, this was not the case with one family whom I met at a couple of AGBell events. Mary whose deafness was caused by Connexin 26, a recessive [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
The classic children’s tale “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” is a great story for use in therapy for a variety of reasons:
It’s basic cultural literacy that all children should have
It has many examples of comparative (biggER) and superlative (biggEST) adjectives
It has a memorable refrain (The troll says, “I’m gonna eat you!”)
You can work on prepositions [...]
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