Evan has been in two local papers and the local News this past week. Here are the links to each.
Be sure to disable the music on the ipod on the right hand side of the blog before watching the video!
Globe Gazzette article, also in the Britt paper too! Coming of age, Hearing age!
KIMT video click play in the rt. corner on the screen to watch the Silence to Sound and article!
Evan's continued progress has been very encouraging! He likes to make his trucks say BRRRRR...it comes out more as a hummmmm, but it counts! Today working with his Teacher for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Shandra, he made some VERY GOOD SOUNDS! One activities they did together today...she had a box full of film canisters, each one had something different in it, making a different sound when you shake it. After a couple of ques from Shandra he would shake them and make the "shake, shake, shake," sound. When he vocalizes shake, shake, shake he does stop and pause in between each vocalization! This means he is hearing each word and that is GREAT! One of the canisters had a tiny bus in it, he really liked this! Shandra had it make a Bbbbrrrrrrr sound and then a beep, beep! He mimicked it! Yes he did! He made a mmmmmmmmm, and then a mm, mm, this is really very good! One more thing they did today...he despised his socks this morning for some reason and constantly took them off. She made it into a listening game, of course she did, she is so great! She pulled, and tugged and made a moaning or tugging sound whatever you want to call it and guess what! Evan made the sound trying to take them off too! I know some of you know how encouraging this really is and for those of you who done....IT'S AWESOME! Now you know! This is just today, we see exciting things EVERY DAY! I can't tell you how exciting it is to watch my Deaf baby hear sounds and actually verbalize in resposnse to them! CI's are so amazing!
I actually just saw this article/found your blog through my "Google" hearing loss/CI search I get everyday. That's so awesome they followed his story as I think it's important to help the public learn more about CIs and how they work. As we know, it's no quick fix. Sounds like Evan's doing great! We are so blessed that we live in a day where technology can help our son's hear! Simply Amazing!
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