Guest guest Posted July 31, 1999 Report Share Posted July 31, 1999 In a message dated 7/31/99 8:08:45 AM Central Daylight Time, Listen-Uponelist writes: << > She used colored elmers glue in a thick glob behind the ears and > another bright color for the earmolds (all of our kids have WILD swirled > earmolds ) and then used white glue for the " tubing " They easily peel > off when the kids want different colors or when they change their earmold > colors. I assume this is for the vinyl dolls, not the fabric ones. Can I add this idea to the page I made on dolls with hearing aids? It's a great idea. Barbie can now have hearing aids (as well as Ken). >> Hi Kate. I spoke to my partner's aunt at dinner last night. Among the food fights and spilled drinks and giggles between all 17 of the kids and their parents who were there, I actually asked her about this. She said that she's never made hearing aids for cloth dolls, but she would assume you could create them on wax paper and when they dry either superglue them on or attach velcro or something. The glue things are fairly flexibe for a while. As for Ken and Barbie, I suppose you could put hearing aids on them but WHY would you want to? ;-) I wont allow such evil things in my home LOL I also asked her for ideas she might have for keeping hearing aids in. She suggested that you use a colored stretchy sports head band over the childs head and ears. Her youngest used to flip out his aids from 4-5 months old, and that distracted him enough to where he would leave them alone. I dont know if it would work with an older child. She also suggested that you get her used to the earmolds and ear " stuff " by putting in the wax earplugs for short times (with supervision!) so its not a new experience for her. I have four Deaf children, two wear hearing aids and two do not. Because we are a fluently ASL family, and even my hearing/speaking child communicates in ASL at home, " hearing " is not an issue for us. LANGUAGE is our focus here and I strongly recommend anyone to BOMBARD their HOH/Deaf/HI (whatever term you find least offensive ;-D) with language. READ constantly. Talk/sign/cue all the time. Expect a response of SOME kind from your child while interacting (a nod, a smile, voiced responses, cue/sign...) Get a childs visual attention. TOUCH your child to connect into his/her reality. (Deaf parents of Deaf babies touch their children more than hearing parents of Deaf babies. Its a natural response to connect with others if you can't hear. Hearing parents do a lot of talking, singing, sound effects with their hearing kids--and sometimes the transition takes conscious effort. I notice this a lot with Eitan, my partner. He is constantly touching and tapping and connecting with our kids physically.) There are some meals that I get up hungry from because I have forgotten to eat. I was too busy filling the meal with language for my kids. " Do you want more bread? More? tell me " more please? " Good! You want more bread! This is rye bread. It is brown. It s soft. Yum! Hey Taz, did you see that wants more bread? Do you like your spaghetti? I like mine best with cheese. Do you want cheese? Where is the cheese? Right! Tatti has the cheese. Tell me " I want cheese, please. " Good..... " and so forth. There is not a moment when we arent dumping language at them. It pays off. My daugther, , who is 23 months old, came up to me yesterday and told me in ASL that my blue shirt was dirty and I needed to change to the red one and when I was done, could I please get her the ice cream with LOTS of chocolate sauce. Needless to say, I changed and my daughter had LOTS of chocolate with her ice cream ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 31, 1999 Report Share Posted July 31, 1999 In a message dated 7/31/99 10:44:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, GayDoctor@... writes: > Deaf parents of Deaf babies touch their children more than > hearing parents of Deaf babies. , welcome to the list, I love your posts!! Lots of fun info and of course, educational also. BUT, as a hearing parent of a deaf child and a hearing child, I gotta say, I touched both my kids a lot, always holding them and carrying them everywhere and co-sleeping etc. So can we please change the above to " SOME deaf parents of deaf babies touch their children more than SOME hearing parents of deaf babies. " Also, a quick pointer, some moms who breastfeed automatically touch and hold their babies more than some moms who bottlefeed and I think that you (pl) are compensating for that with the increased touching and this is GREAT! Babies need to be touched and held and cuddled as much as parents can! And that goes double for deaf babies cuz they can't hear their parents moving around. I used to carry my son in a sling, oh, probably for the first 9 months, until he started crawling, and that was when I was doing any household chores of shopping or whatever. It made a huge difference to him, he was so much more content when he was close to me! Keep those interesting posts coming!! Orla (Irish mom to 2 kids, 1 deaf!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 31, 1999 Report Share Posted July 31, 1999 In a message dated 7/31/99 10:44:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, GayDoctor@... writes: > It pays off. My daugther, , who is 23 months old, came up to me > yesterday and told me in ASL that my blue shirt was dirty and I needed to > change to the red one and when I was done, could I please get her the ice > cream with LOTS of chocolate sauce. Needless to say, I changed and my > daughter had LOTS of chocolate with her ice cream ;-) > > AWESOME use of language in a 23 month old. Way to go!!! Orla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 31, 1999 Report Share Posted July 31, 1999 > I also asked her for ideas she might have for keeping hearing aids in. She > suggested that you use a colored stretchy sports head band over the childs > head and ears. You would have to be careful about how this was placed. If the band covers the microphone of the hearing aid you could cause feedback. I had never thought about using earplugs to get a child used to earmolds. Interesting idea. > I was too busy filling the meal with language for my kids. Great advice about language....though I do hope you get a chance to eat after the kids have finished their meal. ;-) I know that years ago when we first stared, this was one of the hardest parts to learn to do since by nature I'm usually a quiet person (hard to believe from the e-mails I send, isn't it? ;-) But I can honestly say that it has brought me closer to my son than I feel we would have been had he been able to hear by being more tuned-in to his world, and his interests. I really had to laugh when he was about 7, he turned to me and asked my why I talk so much. Have a great day everyone. Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 31, 1999 Report Share Posted July 31, 1999 > " SOME deaf parents of deaf babies touch their children more than SOME hearing > parents of deaf babies. " I'm going to agree here, but please let's not let this degererate to a disagreement (not that it would, but it could). ;-) > Keep those interesting posts coming!! Once again, I agree. , you didn't answer if I could use your aunt's idea for using glue for hearing aids on dolls. I'd love to include it but can't without permission. Hugs, Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 31, 1999 Report Share Posted July 31, 1999 , sounds like you have a wonderful group there! How lucky they are to have you and Eitan. Elaine Jake/5yrs/Clarion 2/99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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