Graduating and waiting for processors
Aug 03, 2008 @ 08:43 AM
Oliver's graduating! It's official. A week and a half
ago at AVT, our therapist informed us of the results
of Oliver's testing which occurred right around his
2nd birthday:
"Oliver's auditory, receptive and expressive language skills are age appropriate at this time... he is producting novel phrases and simple sentences on his own. Early learned pronouns are emerging in his expressive language as well. His speech has improved as well, indicating his auditory feedback look is refining itself through listening. " We will go for yearly checkups, as suggested, to ensure that he is getting later-learned consonants and continuing normal language progress. I think the hardest thing is that Ollie loves to go see Stacey-- he often wakes up and wonders aloud "I go see Stacey?" or "I go play toys with Stacey?" He will miss her! We won't miss the long drive to the city, though.
Also, she was amazed at his language progress over the 6 weeks when we had no therapy due to vacations, illness, etc. He is now routinely speaking in 5 or more word sentences. This morning, for example, he said "I wanna get my bathing suit on. I wanna go swimming!" He remembered that we are planning to go to the lake today!
The message is: early implanted kids can be on par with their peers in toddlerhood. They can speak and understand easily. They can use the language of their friends and family.
Last week we eagerly filled out our forms for our new Opus 2 processors. It took some time to make all the decisions about color, battery packs and so on. We wanted to get it faxed in as quickly as possible, since we know that there are likely to be lots of people sending theirs in shortly and we don't want to get behind them in line!
The Shangri-La of CI users is the
improvement of music appreciation, which the
Opus programming is reported to assist. Also, it
is reported to have better hearing in noise.
After many years, we have joined the ranks of Dry and Store users. Elliot was experiencing static again (same time as last year)... it would happen when he was running around in the humidity and then would go inside to the air conditioning... probably water condensing inside. It was remedied by placing in the drying box, but we want to ensure that we get as much moisture out as possible. Dry and Store is reputed to be the best. We got the new, smaller Zephyr. If we really like it, we'll get one for Ollie, too, but at this point he isn't sweating as much or running around outside as much, so I am giving it a trial run. The Zephyr was only about $65 at a site I found. The drawback is, of course, the dry briks which have to be replaced every two months. But they aren't expensive.
"Oliver's auditory, receptive and expressive language skills are age appropriate at this time... he is producting novel phrases and simple sentences on his own. Early learned pronouns are emerging in his expressive language as well. His speech has improved as well, indicating his auditory feedback look is refining itself through listening. " We will go for yearly checkups, as suggested, to ensure that he is getting later-learned consonants and continuing normal language progress. I think the hardest thing is that Ollie loves to go see Stacey-- he often wakes up and wonders aloud "I go see Stacey?" or "I go play toys with Stacey?" He will miss her! We won't miss the long drive to the city, though.
Also, she was amazed at his language progress over the 6 weeks when we had no therapy due to vacations, illness, etc. He is now routinely speaking in 5 or more word sentences. This morning, for example, he said "I wanna get my bathing suit on. I wanna go swimming!" He remembered that we are planning to go to the lake today!
The message is: early implanted kids can be on par with their peers in toddlerhood. They can speak and understand easily. They can use the language of their friends and family.
Last week we eagerly filled out our forms for our new Opus 2 processors. It took some time to make all the decisions about color, battery packs and so on. We wanted to get it faxed in as quickly as possible, since we know that there are likely to be lots of people sending theirs in shortly and we don't want to get behind them in line!
The Shangri-La of CI users is the
improvement of music appreciation, which the
Opus programming is reported to assist. Also, it
is reported to have better hearing in noise.
After many years, we have joined the ranks of Dry and Store users. Elliot was experiencing static again (same time as last year)... it would happen when he was running around in the humidity and then would go inside to the air conditioning... probably water condensing inside. It was remedied by placing in the drying box, but we want to ensure that we get as much moisture out as possible. Dry and Store is reputed to be the best. We got the new, smaller Zephyr. If we really like it, we'll get one for Ollie, too, but at this point he isn't sweating as much or running around outside as much, so I am giving it a trial run. The Zephyr was only about $65 at a site I found. The drawback is, of course, the dry briks which have to be replaced every two months. But they aren't expensive.