charting language

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

Yesterday we went down to the children's hospital (CHOP) again for Ellis's two year evaluation and mapping. Today marks two years since his activation of his cochlear implant. He wears a Cochlear Freedom on his right ear. Ellis is ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/24/2009 - 13:28 - 3 comments

We spent the afternoon at CHOP today. Ellis had his one year evaluation and mapping for his cochlear implant. The past few times he's been in the hearing booth, he's HATED it, like cried and crawled all over me. Today he was much better, and even ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/28/2008 - 22:20 - 3 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

Sometimes when I turn on something for E to watch, I just hit the mute button. It's one of the perks of having a deaf kid. I usually don't hit mute when he has his CI on, but today I wasn't thinking and when annoying children's TV music came on, I hit ...

Blog entry - diber - 04/08/2008 - 23:03 - 3 comments

E's been doing really well about wearing the CI. Much better. He's worn it without taking it off all day almost every day for the past couple of weeks. (Except for the bit yesterday when he wouldn't wear his hat and CI at the same time--and the hat ...

Blog entry - diber - 03/12/2008 - 23:37 - 4 comments

So last night I posted about how my little guy taught me the sign for chocolate. This morning, I turned on Monsters, Inc. for him so I could get a shower, and I heard some knocking around in the kitchen, and I dreaded seeing a pile of Cheerios on ...

Blog entry - diber - 02/13/2008 - 09:08 - 5 comments

When I started teaching my son ASL, learning it as fast as I could teach him, I knew that someday, he would go off to deaf school and come home and teach me signs. I always wondered what that would be like. I'm sure every parent goes through this with ...

Blog entry - diber - 02/12/2008 - 23:51 - 14 comments

It's been six months since Ellis's CI activation . It was actually 6 mos exactly a week ago, but I've been wanting to sit down and write a long, eloquent post, but it's just not going to happen, at least eloquence isn't. So I'll pound out some details ...

Blog entry - diber - 01/31/2008 - 23:42 - 12 comments

It's probably about time to do another update on how fantastic Ellis is *grin*. I was kind of on hiatus from all deaf blogging for a little while. The comments were starting to get too intense for me, which, to some extent, I allow to happen merely by ...

Blog entry - diber - 11/03/2007 - 22:06 - 14 comments

I need to write this before I forget, because I think this little incident was an important little milestone in E's CI journey. He's 2 1/2 months post-activation. He doesn't respond to his name as much as I'd like, but then he doesn't respond when I ...

Blog entry - diber - 10/05/2007 - 00:04 - 2 comments

I'm back. Our internet was down for a few days. I was trying to be calm about it, but it was hard. So call me a loser, whatever, it's my social life. The blog has sort of become all things deaf this summer. This morning, I took Ellis for his last ...

Blog entry - diber - 08/08/2007 - 17:51 - 10 comments

Today we popped over to see our friends Amanda and 11 mo old Maddie . While Maddie was climbing all over me and handing me a teddy bear, Amanda managed to capture on video Ellis SAYING 'mom' (it's actually "ba", but since he can't hear it ...

Blog entry - diber - 02/02/2007 - 00:01 - 6 comments

Today we had the next test for Ellis's hearing. The tests before were just hearing screens to determine on a black and white level whether or not he has hearing loss. On the test today they hooked up electrodes to his head and inserted these things in ...

Blog entry - diber - 08/23/2005 - 17:55 - 16 comments