Guest guest Posted May 16, 1999 Report Share Posted May 16, 1999 --- deHaun wrote: Congratulations! So many of us have made sacrifices in our careers or lives to provide for our special needs children. I finally achieved a longtime career goal that was set back significantly because of the changes I had to make for our kids. Your pay cut will be temporary. It will all work out for the best. --- end of quote --- Thanks for your nice words - and congratulations to you too! It feels so good to have made the right decision all the way around. The thing that I'm still amazed about is how stunned the folks at my office were - even after me telling them all along that I wasn't comfortable driving that distance 3 or 4 times a week.... Maybe this will wake them up and realize that people are a sum of their lives (home, work, etc.) and not just their work life. There's no doubt in my mind that I was the right person skill-wise to travel to the southern region; but my home life made it not right. On another note, my family and I will be at e School July 22-23. Our older son is being evaluated by the e School those days (bless the school that he attends - they realize they are not qualified to evaluate him). do you know what is involved in this eval? I understand it's pretty much soup to nuts? Are we allowed to be there or do we find something else to do?! Thanks Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 17, 1999 Report Share Posted May 17, 1999 >me " Does he have a cochlear implant in both ears? " ARGH!!! That women >better not touch him! Wow! Kay, here's a comment for " that's outrageous. " > The public school says that the SLP is just for articulation and that he >should get 20 minutes twice a week. That the HI teacher does all the audition >and language work. SLP, stands for speech and LANGUAGE pathologist. My nine year old HoH daughter gets four 30 minute sessions of speech with the SLP per week and has for years. Her TOD works on artic and language too. So should the speech path. It is difficult to separate who is doing what. So many things can be combined. If everything is working right and all the specialists are cooperating the child is working on a combination of things at all times. For example, if the OT, occupational therapist, is working with my daughter on a fine motor activity she is also combining a language activity with her therapy. In therapy with the SLP they may combine cutting, a fine motor activity, with a language exercise. How much time with the SLP should Jake get? What are his needs? Time should be based upon his needs. In school systems I have been in there is a rating system. The more severe the speech language problem is the more time the child is eligible for. The school doesn't offer the maximum time but can go up to that amount of time per week. I wish I could remember what this is called. I'm glad to hear the teacher is in your corner. Barb >I got a phone called that they don't want to put it up right away, because they >are expensive and she is just an infant. They are expensive? What has this to do with anything? Will it be less expensive when she is three? It's not like it will wear out and she will need another one when she is older. Seems to me once they put up the sign the expense is over no matter how old she is. I have never seen one of these signs vandalized. I would also ask what is the average life span of a sign. How often are stop signs or speed limit signs replaced due to fading? When I lived in Washington and requested the sign, a person from the county came out and he and I discussed the best placement for the sign. They put it up with no paperwork on my part. Here in VA, it was a little more difficult but not much. I had to sign a request and provide a paper signed by a professional that she had a hearing loss. It could be signed by her TOD, SLP, audiologist or ENT. It only took about 3 weeks from the initial telephone call to installation of the sign. I was told that when she turns 14 they will take the sign down. Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 17, 1999 Report Share Posted May 17, 1999 >>me " Does he have a cochlear implant in both ears? " ARGH!!! That women >>better not touch him! > >Wow! Kay, here's a comment for " that's outrageous. " Actually there are a few folks out there with bilateral implants (at this point they're all adults), so it's not quite as outrageous as it seems. One of them is the executive director of the Bolesta Center in Florida, Ellen Rhoades (Clarion and Nucleus). http://www.bolesta.com/director.html >> The public school says that the SLP is just for articulation and that he >>should get 20 minutes twice a week. That the HI teacher does all the >audition >>and language work. > >SLP, stands for speech and LANGUAGE pathologist. > >My nine year old HoH daughter gets four 30 minute sessions of speech with >the SLP per week and has for years. Her TOD works on artic and language >too. So should the speech path. I was working on a reply to this subject earlier this morning, but ran out of time. My personal oppinion is that articulation and audition should both be worked on at the same time, not separated with 2 different providers. When worked on together, the child can learn to monitor his own speech. If worked on separately, it's more difficult to teach a child to use what he hears as a model for his own speech, and to listen to what his speech sounds like and correct it if necessary. My personal oppinion also is that a Itinerant TOD is not the best qualified person to work on auditory skills, unless they have had extensive training in that area. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has a document called " Definition of and Competencies for Aural Rehabilitation " that outlines the training they feel is necessary to be qualified to work on Aural Rehabilitation. One of the tasks I was going to accomplish today was to type up my copy of this document for anyone who needs it. While I was browsing their site this morning for something else, I ran across the document in Adobe Acrobat format. I'll give you the link for a direct download. http://www.asha.org/references/iv101.pdf If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat on your computer, you can download the Free Adobe Acrobat Viewer from here: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 17, 1999 Report Share Posted May 17, 1999 Kay, do you know Ellen Rhoades from the Bolesta Clinic? Heidi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 17, 1999 Report Share Posted May 17, 1999 In my case, my son's itinerate TOD is not qualified for working on auditory skills. Thanks for the info from ASHA!!! Heidi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 17, 1999 Report Share Posted May 17, 1999 >Kay, do you know Ellen Rhoades from the Bolesta Clinic? Not personally, but I've corresponded with her a bit by e-mail. She first contacted me to include a link to the Bolesta Clinic on my web site (I had the site listed, but didn't have a link to their web site). We corresponded back and forth for quite a bit. I enjoyed " cyber-chatting " with her. I think she would be a fascinating person to sit down and talk with about a number of subjects (including using 2 different implants - but this is one area she won't talk about due to possible problems with the devices' manufacturers). I do have an invitation from her that any time I'm in the area to drop in and meet her and see the clinic in action. You can bet that the next time my travels take me to that area, I will. Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 1999 Report Share Posted May 18, 1999 At 05:36 AM 5/17/99 -0400, Barbara T. Mellert wrote: >On another note, my family and I will be at e School July 22-23. Our older son is being evaluated by the e School those days (bless the school that he attends - they realize they are not qualified to evaluate him). do you know what is involved in this eval? I understand it's pretty much soup to nuts? Are we allowed to be there or do we find something else to do?! How old is he? Who will he be seeing? Is this part of a VIP program or is he of school age? Is this part of an independent eval? Who at e is coordinating? What kind of testing will be done? You can email me off the list if you feel more comfortable that way. Chris << Christofer deHahn.................Manager, EDA Systems and Test >> << Quantum Corporation...........Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 1999 Report Share Posted May 28, 1999 Good grief! Sounds like they are being unreasonable in my opinion. I agree with asking for the sign to be up when she takes her first step. I don't know how the best way is to fight this however. Maybe ask them how they would feel if it were their daughter who couldn't hear cars beeping. And I would expect the sign to be replaced when it gets old or vandalized! In a message dated 5/17/99 4:43:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Listen-Uponelist writes: > > << They said call me when she is 3 or 4, because the signs are expense, and > when you really need it, it will be all faded, or vandalized by the other > children in the neighborhood. I said, I really don't care about the > expense, I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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