ASL

But the highlight of our VBS experience this year was Ellis had his first personal ASL interpreter that the church hired for him. It was like night and day for him. He was excited, engaged. This picture makes me nearly choke up. He's ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/13/2010 - 15:44 - 2 comments

Today Chris and I were on our first parent panel. We were asked to come to a regional meeting that the State Dept of Ed sponsors for those who are service providers for children with hearing loss. There were people in the room from all over ...

Blog entry - diber - 06/24/2010 - 21:23 - 2 comments

In a week, Ellis will begin his first experience having a personal ASL interpreter in a hearing setting. He will just barely five years old. He has been in great situations thus far. At school, he has full access to communication, because he goes to a ...

Blog entry - diber - 06/14/2010 - 08:49 - 0 comments

So why three parts? Because I had more thoughts than I had time at a time to write. And because what I wanted to say falls roughly into three points: background, what's going on now, and the obligatory abstract reflections. Incidentally, this is ...

Blog entry - cjones - 05/26/2010 - 09:48 - 5 comments

In a previous post I talked about our difficulties finding an interpreter for church, and I mentioned some of the reasons why we think it's important to have one. Let me just say: thank God for the men in our church. Here's why. We recently changed ...

Blog entry - cjones - 05/22/2010 - 16:28 - 6 comments

I guess I spoke to soon. I made some inquiries about including ASL in Ellis's IEP evals, thinking that it had been overlooked. Or just didn't really exist. When we were preparing his 3yo transition to preschool evals, my understanding was that there ...

Blog entry - diber - 01/28/2010 - 09:25 - 0 comments

'Tis the season for IEPs. And Ellis is getting ready to transition to kindergarten next year. No, that is not my baby going to kindergarten!! Part of the process is evaluations. I was pleased about many aspects of the evaluation results, ...

Blog entry - diber - 01/27/2010 - 22:42 - 8 comments

We all have them. The ornaments we made in school when we were little kids. I think mine was made of pipe cleaners and beads; it was supposed to be a wreath. Ellis came home with probably the best school ornament ever. The ILY glove--a little ...

Blog entry - diber - 12/23/2009 - 23:04 - 7 comments

Ellis runs ahead of me in all his four-year-old boy vivacity. As I lumber along with the baby on my back, lugging our little bag full of snacks and water bottles, I watch him, waiting for the moment, just before he disappears around the ...

Blog entry - diber - 09/14/2009 - 22:36 - 19 comments

July included two weddings. Both made possible by the internet. I did music for the first. A friend from church. The second was for Sarah, my old college buddy. I drove to New Hampshire with Marlowe and Elmo DVDs in the back on Saturday. ...

Blog entry - diber - 08/05/2009 - 23:43 - 2 comments

It's amazing. Simply amazing. We've been agonizing over how to find an interpreter for our church services. Having made no progress, we turned the project over to Mom, and within a few weeks she has made more progress than we've made in many months. ...

Blog entry - cjones - 07/24/2009 - 11:55 - 8 comments

I've gotten some fun movies of Ellis recently. These are taken roughly around eighteen moths post CI activation. In the first, Ellis is fingerspelling the title to his bedtime story--and saying the letters as best he can (though he's not wearing his ...

Blog entry - diber - 01/29/2009 - 17:34 - 4 comments

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Blog entry - diber - 01/20/2009 - 15:32 - 2 comments

Mommy's perspective: A staggering cascade of sprinkles, which sends the cookie decorating venture up to carnage status. Ellis's perspective: SNOW! Email this post Thank you for your interest in spreading the ...

Blog entry - diber - 01/07/2009 - 23:47 - 3 comments

Some days I can't Ellis out the door fast enough. I hear the school van beep his arrival, and I am all about getting that three-year-old OUTTA here!!! They say he's much better behaved at school. I guess he knows who has to love him unconditionally. ...

Blog entry - diber - 12/04/2008 - 09:02 - 2 comments

I'm cooking Thanksgiving Dinner next week. It'll be a small gathering: us, my brothers, brother's GF, and hopefully a friend or two. But our apartment is pretty small, so it'll probably be just right. I went to signing class this morning and relearned ...

Blog entry - diber - 11/20/2008 - 16:05 - 4 comments

It's been a busy week. First, my good buddy who moved away came back for a visit. Yay! Then, it seems that I must traverse all over the city and its environs this week. On Wednesday I had a quick visit with the midwife (follow up on some birth ...

Blog entry - diber - 11/16/2008 - 00:31 - 2 comments

Hubby blogs---- Wow. What a week. Actually, it's been a week and a half. About the middle of last week, I was looking at a deadline. I knew I had to finish this particular project by the end of the week or so, though I did think I would have the ...

Blog entry - diber - 09/27/2008 - 11:14 - 4 comments

After settling into his CI for quite some time, Ellis has been taking it off and pulling it apart recently. Mostly, it seems, because he's bored and/or a bit ornery (as he is with a lot of things--understandably getting used to a new baby and ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/10/2008 - 00:09 - 4 comments

Yet another rare appearance by Dad! Ever see Das Boot, or Crimson Tide? The Hunt for Red October doesn't count, because it doesn't really convey the reality of daily life on a submarine. It's excruciatingly boring, characterized by much olfactory ...

Blog entry - diber - 03/14/2008 - 23:04 - 9 comments