Re: Starting preschool and new glasses

[Guest guest]

Darlene...

I guess that is what contributes to my laid back reasoning that Kaitee will

wear her glasses and hearing aides when she needs them... I am also hearing

impaired.. I do a pretty good imitation of a deaf person should the need arise

too lol...

I dont disagree with them that Kaitee needs to wear her luxuray items to aide

in her learning process... but when they try to insist that Kaitee needs to

wear this all the time I balk ... if she is comfortable without them during

play time and tv time and all that good stuff then so be it !! I think she is

capable of making these decisions now and it is her comfort that is important

not

everyone elses.

I found out I was hearing impaired when I was seventeen and tried to enter

the air force.... I was kinda shocked because ummm for seventeen years things

sounded okay to me lol... my first pair of hearing aides... okay I was pretty

amazed at the things I didnt realize made noise lol... but it actually got

aggravating fast!!..

Yup it would of been nice to be able to hear things better (although I didnt

know it at the time) while attending school.... the next time anyone has a

complaint about their childs speech therapist visualize this.... and this is

trully one of the few memories I have of school.... here I am a seven year old

child, taken out of class to a bus... the speech teacher is a Elvis Presley

wannabe.. with jowls like jello... the speech aide is this black box, and a pile

of

ibm cards... unbeknown to me, becasue it was in a pitch I could not hear,

when these cards went thru this machine the letter sounds would be said... R ...

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr now say rrrrrrrrrrrrr... I would sit there like a lump

not knowing what was expected of me because I didnt hear anything except a

whirl... then have this speech teacher get right in your face and scream.. and

he

spit when he talked... say RRRRRRRRRRRR what are you deaf and stupid...he was

definetly a frustrated person lol... he was a good teacher becasue by the time

I figured out I wasnt hearing right I knew it meant I was stupid.. and I didnt

want to be stupid so I wasnt about to point this out... but I taught myself

ways to avoid this being noticed.. those cards had numbers on them, eventually

I was able to place the number with the letter and from his spitting in my

face all the time come up with a pretty good repeat of what I was suppose to

say... special services have definetly come a longggg way today lol...

I will do everything in my power to provide my child with a better chance at

learning and growing like a typical child... but I do know how those darn

things feel in your ears, I do know how aggravating it is to hear things that

you

dont really need to hear ... like them bugs that are driving everyone nuts...

it is really really nice to have the option of listening to them or not lol..

Glasses, I dont need to wear mine to use the computer, or read.. I choose not

to wear them when mowing the lawn, or situations where I sweat... (why our

lawn always looks like a blind person mowed it : ) course if I didnt wear

them when driving... I wouldnt hear the screams of those I ran over... or the

sirens ... hmmmmm

debbi

[Guest guest]

Debbi -

I totally understand Kaitee's reaction to wearing the hearing aids and

glasses - I too wear one hearing aid and glasses - Hearing aids are very

small and light but if you are used to space being there and there

something new in your ear - it is very distracting and gets

uncomfortable - just like a rock in your shoe - it is fitted to the ear

but it is annoying because you are not used to it. Sometimes I want to

take it out and bury it in the sand ;-) - but it is important and very

expensive and I wear them on Tues and Thurs when I have my meetings and

I need to hear. (well the glasses I wear everyday because I need to

drive to get here).

Darlene - Mom to (5 - who also wears glasses) and (7)

Re: Starting preschool and new glasses

In a message dated 6/9/2004 8:11:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

tinajordan@... writes:

> Our biggest frustration right now is that she recently got glasses and

> won't keep them on. In fact we are on the second pair because she has

hidden the

> first pair so well that we can't find them ($300.00 down the drain!).

We

> ordered the cable temples that wrap completely around her ear but that

doesn't

> slow her down from pulling them off and sending them sailing through

the air.

> Any tips on keeping glasses on such a young child? We thought that

if they

> helped her see she would be motivated to keep them on, so I am

wondering if

> they are the right prescription?

Oh have I been here lol... so many 300 dollars done the drain!!.. But

in a

sense you are correct, if the glasses are doing their job , she would be

more

willing to wear them... but at three years old there are so many things

that

factor into this.. and at three years old she probably cant tell you the

problem.. so it becomes frustrating for both of you.

Kaitee goes every six months for eye exams... and I cannot afford

specialists

every six months and new glasses so we have checked around until we

found

people she works well with... Lenscrafters!! And we have received the

wrong

perscription from others before this...

But other things could work in here also, the way the glasses feel to

her,

maybe they dont fit on her face well, the lenses could be smudged (kids

tend to

push them up on their faces with their fingers right in the middle of

the

lens) I wear glasses and it is a pain to have to keep pushing them up

on your

face.

With kaitee , she wears her glasses in school... she doesnt wear them at

home... if she chooses not to.. (I dont wear my glasses all the time, if

I need

them I wear them other wise off they go) The way I feel about it is ,

in school

her vision is important to her learning.. at home unless she is doing

homework or reading.. it is her choice on whether she wears the glasses

or not.. I

dont pressure the situation, what I do put pressure on is care of the

glasses... if they are not on her face they should be in the case... if

she chooses to

take the glasses off she must stop what she is doing and put them

away... we

havent lost a pair of glasses in a year now the dog hasnt eaten any

lately,

and they havent been stepped on... The wrap around glasses were my

total

favorite!! she has outgrown them though .. the last pair she chose were

blue..

(she always chooses ) the pair before that purple... (we had new lenses

put in

these and they are play glasses) but if you are comfortable they are

the

right prescription, they fit well, all that stuff... then dont pressure

her.. she

hasnt walked into any walls lately has she?? Set up times when she has

to

wear them and then the rest let her decide.. as she grows older she will

wear

them more and more... if you arent comfortable with the prescription..

take her

somewhere else and have her eyes examined... I have done this . Now

Kaitee

can tell me if the glasses help or if they are wobbly lol... this helps

..

We have the same rules with her hearing aides.. she has to wear them to

school, the rest of the time she chooses ... but the care of them is

stressed..

they must be put away... try replacing a 2700 hearing aide a couple

times... oh

boy that gets interesting lol.... We found her hearing aides and glasses

buried in the sand one time... they all flush down toilets very

nicely... and the

dogs love them... we are in the process of replacing one hearing aide

now

because it is missing in action.. thankfully I took insurance out on

them ...

Debbi

[Guest guest]

I'd say the glasses will just take time. My daughter Molly is deaf and has

worn hearing aids since she was two months old. It took awhile for her to

get used to wearing them. Then, of course, she went through a phase where

she would pull them out and look at me and grin. She finally got to the

point, though, that if one would work loose, she would push it back in and

if it would fall out or get pulled out accidentally she would try to put it

back in. She has a cochlear implant now and we have had to go through some

of the same phases with the processor, although she is becoming more and

more accustomed to it every day.

cakj

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From: Tina Jordan

Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:10 AM

To: MosaicDS

Subject: Starting preschool and new glasses

Hi everybody,

I want to welcome the new families and say thatI also experienced the

obsession with MDS when Kelsey was first born and probably for about the

first two years of her life. Well Kelsey is now three and started her first

day at preschool yesterday. She did fabulously. When I came back to get

her after 3 hours, she didn't want to come home. We also just did a

re-evaluation through her early on program and she is functioning at

age-level in all areas except for speech and language. She has a moderate

speech delay but so did my oldest daughter at this age.

Our biggest frustration right now is that she recently got glasses and won't

keep them on. In fact we are on the second pair because she has hidden the

first pair so well that we can't find them ($300.00 down the drain!). We

ordered the cable temples that wrap completely around her ear but that

doesn't slow her down from pulling them off and sending them sailing through

the air. Any tips on keeping glasses on such a young child? We thought

that if they helped her see she would be motivated to keep them on, so I am

wondering if they are the right prescription?

Tina -- mom to three girls