About This Blog

This blog is in honor of our 3+1/2 year old son, Ellis, who was born congenitally, profoundly deaf. I've been blogging a bit about it here and there on my my personal blog. But as we have gotten to know more about Deaf culture and even CI culture, we've decided to create some space devoted to our experiences. All the previous blog entries have been imported here, so we are picking up where we left off with my former blog, "Moot Thoughts and Musings."

Briefly, Ellis was born in June 2005 and failed his newborn hearing screen. This came as a bit of a surprise, since we're a hearing family with no history of hearing loss. As soon as we realized what was going on and got hooked up with early intervention, we began to sign with him, to seek out Deaf adults to learn from, and to become involved in our local School for the Deaf. When Ellis was two we made the difficult decision to get him a CI. He has one CI in his right ear and does pretty well with it. He attends preschool at the local Deaf school, where he is part of a bilingual classroom. He gets instruction in spoken English and in ASL. He signs very well, if I do say so myself. He also gets weekly speech therapy sessions at our local children's hospital, and we totally heart our therapist.

Keep reading to find out more about our family and our journey with Ellis.