Guest guest Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 My soon to be 4 month old son was diagnosed with plagio a little over a month now. My husband and I have taken him to crainal tech. for the initial consultation and exam. At the next visit for the digital scan I was almost brought to tears when we found out that we had to cut our son's beautiful locs of hair! It seems like this technolgy would be advanced enough to get and acurate reading of a childs head and be able to compensate for hair. Now I must say that we are African American and the therapists kept insisting that shaving our sons hair is the only way they could get an acurate image of our son's head shape. Accoring to them " African American " hair prevents the DSI from getting the correct head shape. Now we are faced with the decision of either shaving off all of ours son's hair or letting him go through life with this aweful condition. Of course, I leave the place and head down the street to the nearest barber shop and watch in horror as some stranger takes my 3 month old and shaves his head complelty clean!!!! Man! It's just hair they say. I know it's just hair and that it will grow back, but thats not the point! As a mother it's something you have to terms with. My son was born with a full head of beautiful hair which i could have been put into a ponytail. To see all of that come off was heartbreaking! Now he has a hair cut and he looks great but my question is, why is this technology bias when it comes to Ethic hair? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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