What do you do when the going gets tough?  Well, there’s not one perfect answer for every CI user or every situation, but here are a few suggestions to keep in mind during difficult times: [...]

I met Julianne at the 2010 AG Bell Convention.  She immediately impressed me with how she and her husband have turned their own family’s struggles and successes raising a child with severe-to-profound hearing loss into [...]

At Cochlear Celebration 2009, I had a chance to meet Jim Patrick, one of the members of the team that created the world’s first multichannel cochlear implant.  It was an incredible experience for me to [...]

When we give children praise like, “Good job!”, it may make them feel good for a moment, but what does it really tell them about the job they’ve done?  In reality, it only tells them [...]

“Inclusion is more than just geography” I wish I could take credit for the quote above, but it came from a great presenter I heard at this year’s AG Bell Convention, Dr. Sarah Wainscott (see [...]

These articles are reposted from the reports I did for the AG Bell Convention 2010’s Official Blog.  I am reposting them here for readers who did not see them “live” during the Convention and so [...]

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 [...]

For decades, literacy has been the Achilles’ Heel of deaf education.  Historically, students with hearing loss educated using methods that did not focus on listening and spoken language, have historically achieved abysmally low reading scores[1]. [...]