Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 Hi, Diane, I am curious as to why you are considering an implant for Kara -- is she not getting enough benefit from her aids? I ask because she has a similar loss to my son Ben's, and the implant is always in the back of my mind. Stefanie mom to Ben, 2 1/2, severe, Phonak novo forte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 What ages are your kids? How many are at home? I'd love to hear more about them. Where are you in Michigan? Dept. of Children's Services here are giving me (as well as other families) a hard time about too many kids. They have a rule only 6 kids in a home, regardless of legal status (birth, adopted, guardianship, foster). Seems to be based on a preconception that large families are dysfunctional. Of course, their job is to see the dysfunctional families, so perhaps they are likely to generalize. Judith Re: Gideon's Crossing BUSY adoptive parents of 24 kids! *smile Floyd and Tish Lavrenz wrote: > Holy cow!! Did I interpret this to mean you are parents to 24 kids?? > Actually birth/adoptive parents????? > > adoptive mom-we have 24 special kids, > > > All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each post is the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to copyright restrictions. -- MZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 WHAT??? How is this possible? And please tell me how they actually enforce that! " sorry, ma'am you will have to ship a few of your kids off somewhere else, we have limits, ya know " DUH.......... in TX ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: RE: Gideon's Crossing Author: Listen-Up Date: 01/31/2001 12:34 PM What ages are your kids? How many are at home? I'd love to hear more about them. Where are you in Michigan? Dept. of Children's Services here are giving me (as well as other families) a hard time about too many kids. They have a rule only 6 kids in a home, regardless of legal status (birth, adopted, guardianship, foster). Seems to be based on a preconception that large families are dysfunctional. Of course, their job is to see the dysfunctional families, so perhaps they are likely to generalize. Judith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 When I was observing programs for , I attended the oral program at our local school. There was an oral 12-13 year old boy there who could not really understand anything the teacher said with powerful hearing aids and an fm combination. He spoke so unintelligibly that even I could not understand him, and I can understand almost anyone with an accent, and/or deaf speech. I revisited the school the next year, 6 months after the boy had received a cochlear implant...13-14 years of age now. He could understand most of what the teacher said and his speech was readily understood. When & I testified at the State Legislature for the Newborn Infant Hearing Screening Bill in land, we met a 2-3 year old girl who had gotten an implant at one year of age. Had I not known better, I would have thought she had normal hearing. Her speech and language and comprehension were that of a hearing child. It was amazing! MDUPLAN wrote: > > RE: Gideon's Crossing > > The girl spoke well. One of the reasons her mother gave for her wanting > the > implant was because her boyfriend wanted her not to sound deaf. I don't > think that by age 14 that her tonal quality would change that much. This > fact was not mentioned. > > Diane > > A few years ago there was an actress on Guiding Light named Amy Ecklund, she > grew up oral and had a progressive hearing loss. When she first started on > the show she was using hearing aids and her speech was good but you could > still tell certain sounds were missing. She had an implant, I believe she > was in her 20's, over time there was a noticeable improvement in her speech > quality. I was impressed. > > RoseAnn > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 WHAT??? How is this possible? And please tell me how they actually enforce that! " sorry, ma'am you will have to ship a few of your kids off somewhere else, we have limits, ya know " DUH.......... in TX That's exactly what they threaten, and then the Sophie's Choice, which ones will you give up. They can do it because foster care and legal guardianship are still considered under court jurisdiction. I have two kids (siblings - many special needs) that were foster kids first, 8 years ago; I've had legal guardianship for 6 years and trying to complete adoptions on them. I pissed off some social workers that didn't understand deafness, and they've been on my case since then. Two years ago the judge ordered the department to complete the adoptions within 6 months, and I heard last week that they're going to start over with unannounced home visits and they want to re-check the information I've already given them on medical care, medication storage, fingerprints on babysitters, and my financial records. If it's not complete by June, the kids physicals and TB tests will be too old and we'll have to start that over again. Did I mention that I'm trying to get an exception to the limits to take one or two deaf babies? I must be crazy. That's the only way I could continue to do what I do. Judith in California Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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