I need help again!

[Guest guest]

I am so sorry to be asking so many questions. Here I was yesterday patting

myself on the back for knowing so much and today I am humbled into a child's

ignorance.

I'm not feeling so great right about now. I just came back from an AV session

and learned that the things I am telling and showing the school are possibly

wrong. So I am confusing them, but I don't know enough myself to know that what

I am teaching them is not right. They don't know anything, so whatever I say

seems good to them. The AV therapist is swamped and she is trying to give us as

much time as she can, but we are not her only clients.

I have been going into the classroom (kindergarten, new school for Bobby) and

making sure they are putting on the boots for the FM correctly and checking it

out the right way. Ever since the AV therapist did an in-service on Wed of last

week, and found out that both Bobby's hearing aids were turned off the whole

time he was in school, I haven't trusted a thing they are doing. Understandably

so. So I have been in there each morning to make sure they are checking

everything right and I am there to answer questions. Today I went in with this

thing Felicity on this list had given me which is a cord that attaches right to

the shoes (I think) of the FM thingy of the hearing aid, and it plugs right into

a CD player, or in this case a computer. So I am so proud of myself, teaching

the computer person how to use this thing, looking like I know what I am doing,

and we all realized that if we take off the boot of the FM and only have the

shoe (see how little I know? I don't even know if I am calling the right parts

by the right name), you just cut off the voice of the guy wearing the FM mic.

So when I went to Soundbridge, I asked the AV therapist what we should do and

she said we shouldn't use this thing at all, we would be better off with a patch

cord which would feed right into his FM. A what? I never even heard of it. I

don't know what I am doing. I am not experienced enough to teach anybody

anything, but someone has to. Now I am confusing them. I hate this, I really

do. I am so overwhelmed, trying to teach everyone, check on Bobby to make sure

he doesn't get hit by a bus because his hearing aids are off, trying to do AV

therapy and catch up 5 years worth of hearing loss in one " golden " year while I

can work with him after Kindergarten gets out for the day. I hate that they are

reading CHAPTER books to the kids in K, and I am trying to do pre and post

teaching, and the AV therapist said, forget it, it's not worth my time, they

shouldn't be reading chapter books of a 3 rd and 4th grade reading level to kids

in kindergarten anyway. I am confused. I am overwhelmed. And I feel for all

that I have learned in the last 6 months, I am a total idiot.

Sigh...I'm taking the kids out to eat because I can't handle anymore. (dh)

is traveling and this is just too much to take on alone and handle with any

humor anymore.

I'll get a nice chocolate dessert!

Trish. " Desperate-for-support-Trish "

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