How do you get an infant with profound hearing loss to interact with you when you can not get his attention through sound?
It is natural for all babies – hearing and not – to make fun little cooing noises. Babies born with hearing loss do not get any reinforcement of the noises they make, so [...]
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Read this. Then you will understand why I feel the need to comment here.
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Drew’s Dad stumbled upon this blog post today about “Turn On My Ears” and he made the mistake tonight of letting me read it. I can not ignore this blog post, and feel the need to comment here.
I can imagine [...]
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It’s hard to believe that Drew is over six months old! These months have just flown by, partly because every day and week is consumed with appointments for Drew. I was encouraged this week when talking with the mother of an implanted four year old. She told me that her life is back to normal [...]
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