Dacy Zacharias, a mother of two beautiful girls with bilateral cochlear implants and Cochlear Awareness Network Manager for Canada, not only shares her journey of raising her daughters with hearing loss, but also their experiences in sports, in particular gymnastics. She provides some great tips on overcoming some challenges in playing certain sports as cochlear [...]
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Sports and All Sorts
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
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Deaf Parent’s Cochlear Implant Story
Monday, June 13th, 2011
A Deaf parent whose primary language is ASL shares her story of deciding to get her son bilateral cochlear implants and teaching him listening and spoken language. This is a perfect time to write about my son’s cochlear implants due to the recent topic on cochlearimplantonline.com. Things have changed a lot through the years regarding [...]
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Damian Quinn’s Mom Journey
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Damian Quinn’s mom was generous to take time to write a story about her son’s journey from going deaf to hearing again with cochlear implants. Damian was one of the first children in the world to receive a cochlear implant in 1987 as part of the clinical trials in Australia. At Easter time in 1978, [...]
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Amy’s Story: Raising a Son with Hearing Loss and Autism
Monday, May 9th, 2011
Amy shares her journey of raising a son with hearing loss and autism. She speaks about the obstacles of finding ways to provide her son, Andrew, the best tools to treat both of his disabilities and to ensure the Andrew can meet his fullest potential. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away… [...]
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Debbi Culp-Hook’s Story: Raising a deaf child with Asperger’s Syndrome
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Debbi Culp-Hook has written a long story but a worthwhile to read about her overcoming obstacles in raising a son who is deaf but is a bilateral cochlear implant recipient and has Asperger’s syndrome. Her story is an inspiration for parents of deaf children with cochlear implants who have additional disabilities. Any deaf children with [...]
