Guest guest Posted September 28, 1999 Report Share Posted September 28, 1999 --- You wrote: Just a geek. --- end of quote --- :>) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 28, 1999 Report Share Posted September 28, 1999 --- You wrote: Sorry I could not offer any advice. Best wishes.......where abouts in Michigan?? --- end of quote --- - I'll be in Ann Arbor in October for a conference there - where do you live? Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 28, 1999 Report Share Posted September 28, 1999 Hi , Yes, loves the water. He is taking swimming lessons at the YWCA three times a week while he is at the preschool there in the afternoons, and loving it. He's full of confidence, but not too skilled yet! I'll watch out for the backstroke. But diving into the water is also a potential problem because of the pressure change, so he needs to stay on the surface. Dixie >Dixie - have you thought about swimming?? It's good clean fun, and would >be a helpful skill in a tropical wonderland, though you have to be careful >with backstroke, both my kids have banged their heads on the wall since you >can't see the wall doing the backstroke! Maggie started at 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 28, 1999 Report Share Posted September 28, 1999 In a message dated 9/28/99 6:05:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Barbara.T.Mellert@... writes: << - I'll be in Ann Arbor in October for a conference there - where do you live? >> oh really? What is the conference for? We are about 35 mins outside of Ann Arbor. How neat to have someone from here be close by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 28, 1999 Report Share Posted September 28, 1999 RE CT Scans: Having a CT scan (Cat scan) is part of the routine medical work up for a child with a sensorineural hearing loss. They are specifically looking for problems with the bones of the inner ear (cochlea). One thing they can see is Mondini's malformation. There are other conditions in which hearing loss can be progressive, as well as conditions in which the child can lose more hearing suddenly if he/she is hit in the head. So the CT scan gives you important information that can be used right away. Or it can put your mind more at ease if the results are negative. Other parts of the work up include blood work for Thyroid, autoimmune, kidney problems, as well as an EKG. These tests are done to rule out syndromes that can include hearing loss. There are some other things done that I'm sure I'm forgetting. Rest assured your ENT is doing the recommended procedure for follow up of a sensori neural hearing loss - and is not trying to prevent liability. PS - statistically, a tumor causing hearing impairment in a child is the rarest of the rare, so try not to lose sleep over that!! in GA (Mom and peds RN) RE: READING We had a TOD/SLP come to our parent's group about a year ago to talk about reading in deaf/HOH kids. She said the two most important things she has seen that parents can do early on is to 1. READ to the child. Whether sign or speech you can read to your child. It is a great way to spend one on one time, they can learn lots of language and info, and most of all reading becomes something they WANT to be able to do. Motivation. She recommended reading Jim Trelease's book the Read Aloud handbook. Also Carol Flexer spoke here a while back and told the pediatrics docs to write prescriptions for parents to read 5-10 books per day to their kids if they had hearing loss, lots of ear infections or language delays. and 2. the TOD also stressed that you need to know the language (speech or sign) before you can decode (read) any language. So pump in the language all day, every day. The illustration she gave was to try to be interested in reading something that was nonsense - you didn't know what the words mean. Something like this....... " The glamtic went over to the finmo and wozled the morjish. You can teach a child to decode this and be able to say the words but it has little to no meaning. So spend your time and energy making sure your child understands the language he/she will be reading. in GA (Mom and reading fanatic!) RE: No way. Not an audiologist. Just a geek. Chris Guess then I'm an audiologist/geek wannabe! in GA Dixie - have you thought about swimming?? It's good clean fun, and would be a helpful skill in a tropical wonderland, though you have to be careful with backstroke, both my kids have banged their heads on the wall since you can't see the wall doing the backstroke! Maggie started at 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 28, 1999 Report Share Posted September 28, 1999 At 10:38 PM 9/27/99 -0400, Kirsten Elin wrote: >From: Kirsten.Elin@... (Kirsten Elin) > >--- You wrote: >No way. Not an audiologist. Just a geek. > >Chris >--- end of quote --- >notice i said technology, not audiology. i was not trying to put you on the >spot. but i know your children have a more severe loss than Ezekiel, so I >figured you'd have the best technology available for them. being a geek and >all. lol One one child, yes, on the other, no. I want to get a good baseline on my daughter before committing that kind of money. Chris << Christofer deHahn..................Manager, EDA Systems and Test >> << Quantum Corporation...........Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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