Guest guest Posted January 22, 2004 Report Share Posted January 22, 2004 In a message dated 1/21/2004 11:00:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, amaysnva@... writes: I'd like some opinions on quiet vehicles you all have experienced. I prefer a small van or something with lots of trunk space. Thanks for your advice. We have a Honda Odyssey van. My son, , hears very well in it with his CI. can hear me in the driver's seat and him in his carseat. He hears the words to songs and he even hears the turn signal! As far as the AV therapy question... perhaps your daughter is bored with the routine. Have you tried changing it up a bit. I know for myself I couldn't wait to get past making the animal sounds in therapy. It was soooo boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 22, 2004 Report Share Posted January 22, 2004 In a message dated 1/21/2004 11:00:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, amaysnva@... writes: I'd like some opinions on quiet vehicles you all have experienced. I prefer a small van or something with lots of trunk space. Thanks for your advice. We have a Honda Odyssey van. My son, , hears very well in it with his CI. can hear me in the driver's seat and him in his carseat. He hears the words to songs and he even hears the turn signal! As far as the AV therapy question... perhaps your daughter is bored with the routine. Have you tried changing it up a bit. I know for myself I couldn't wait to get past making the animal sounds in therapy. It was soooo boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 22, 2004 Report Share Posted January 22, 2004 In a message dated 1/22/2004 10:02:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, srkearns@... writes: We have a Honda Odyssey van. My son, , hears very well in it with his CI. can hear me in the driver's seat and him in his carseat. We have an Odyssey too. While reading this thread I was thinking that Neal seems to hear everything in our van. Even when he's in the third row seat I can have a conversation with him just as good as I can with my hearing daughter. But at the same time, if someone were to ask me how I thought it sounds, I would consider my van to be pretty loud. So I wasn't sure if it's just Neal being good at listening, or the van being a good choice. Still don't know, but it's interesting that both of our kids hear well in the Odyssey. ~Rhonda~ Mom to Audrey, 6, hearing & Neal, 4, CII 6-11-02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Hi - we have a Toyota Sienna (it's nearly 3 years old) and have found it to be quiet. We had Dodge Caravans before that - they were much noisier! Barbara ******************************* Barbara Mellert Manager, Social Science Computing Kiewit Computing Services Dartmouth College 13A Silsby Hall; HB 6121 Hanover NH 03755 Telephone: 603/646-2877 URL: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ssc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 RObin, I have heard from others that the Honda mentioned is really quiet. We have a Ford Expedition that Jake hears fine in from the second row. I also have a Ford F150 4 door truck I drive all the time that he hears well in. That was one of our things when we bought it. We had to test drive the trucks with Jake in the back to see if he could hear us...I know the salesmen thought we were nuts! My husband drives an older Windstar van that was fairly quiet when we got it but as it ages it gets louder and louder. I also wanted to comment that my son has AN with a CI. There is a group on yahoogroups that I run for AN if you aren't on it already. I am a bit behind due to issues dealing with my older child. We recently had to put him in a self contained class for behaviorally and emotionally disabled kids. Which is even sadder because he is academically gifted and this class is NOT very academic. Of course, he wasn't getting his work done anyway and we hope the structure will help. I am just a nervous wreck about the whole issue. Oh well, that is another listserv for me to cry on.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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