I gave her the feedback of Prisha and told her how Prisha has picked up accent living here in the last 2 years of our stay here. To this Mrs. Hudlikar pointed out that since Prisha has been fitted with the right hearing aids and since they have been tuned well and she has been trained well, she is hearing the various accents and has picked them up and is talking with an accent ! Its so true ! The 1st year of our stay here, she had a Canadian teacher and so she talked like her , the 2nd grade saw her with an American teacher and she was talking like her and now again with a young Canadian teacher with very dramatic ways, and Prisha is talking like her ! It is coz she is hearing well, she is doing so. This was not possible had she been lip reading or was using signs as add ons with her speech ! I suddenly realized how lucky I was coz Prisha has well integrated into the system and does not need any lip reading nor cochlear implants to make her speak better. She is hearing well and is well trained to lead a normal life in this world !
I think we were worried about her transition from India, but I think it has gone well as from there to now, her journey has been commendable. She rolls her "r" well and uses all her tricks in her power to copy the various styles she hears at school. I guess this was possible only coz of good auditory training and our pressures that we put on her to speak well. Goes to prove that you just need well tuned appropriate hearing aids and good speech therapy to make a deaf child integrate into the normal world. can't thank Alaka ma'am enough.
I was wondering where you went! I am very "behind" on reading blogs lately. Life gets so busy! I love how Prisha is able to copy the accents. Our current audiologist refuses to do aided audiograms and we know Nolan isn't hearing the high frequency sounds (like S) so we are seeking another audiologist to perform some aided testing. He is only 70dB hearing loss in the high frequencies, so his hearing aids SHOULD be picking up those sounds still. I think his other audiologist didn't have them tuned properly.
ReplyDeleteThanks Leah !! I have been doing too much volunteering at school and that takes away a lot of my time. Also Prisha is managing and so don't really know what to write.
ReplyDeleteWonder why your audiologist should refuse.Prisha with her 85 db in one ear and 105 in the otehr is picking up the S sounds and he should doing this too. See another audiologist as this is important.Also you can try exaggerating the S and sh sounds for him to get used to them. We sis that often and that really helped !
Have read your blog and really have been hassled with Nolan's issues. Wish there was some respite some where. I read and felt very uneasy and just couldn't understand what to write....my heart goes out to him.
Hi mom rouchi...im pusda from jakarta..my little girl now 19months wore hearing aids in both ear from 17 months...68 and 90 db and hard hearing for high frequency...i want to know gow to deal with the speech of my kid like ur daughther?so inspired...i want my girl like Prisha
ReplyDeleteSpeech is possible with this kind of loss. Connect with me up and see if I could help you.
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