Guest guest Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 In a message dated 11/7/2005 6:22:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, maryemapa@... writes: Do your families have sidekicks? All the deaf kids out here have them and I was thinking that Hayley could have one when she is 14. Ian just has a regular cell phone. Our ASL tutor, who is a hearing child of deaf parents, had a sidekick. Her parents have them, so they got them for both their kids. But she found it cumbersome and preferred a simpler flip phone. It has a camera in it, but then, so many do now. I've looked at them, but found it would mean changing our phone carrier as well and that seems like a bit much just to try out something that we've heard is " okay but a bit too much. " Than again, Ian loves gadgets. So maybe we'll have him play with a friend's before making that leap. He now has a $150 calculator -- needed for the advanced math. And before we realized it, the kids had all downloaded games and were sharing different games. Apparently this is so common that there is now a choice on the progress reports for teachers to check off that says: unacceptable use of calculator. I told Ian if that came back to us as checked, he'd be back to the $5 version from Walmart. (grin) Best - Jill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 I went looking for new cel phones tonight...need five new ones...and saw that several were now rated " hearing aid-M3 " The Verizon guy indicated that these were designed to eliminate feedback. Plan on researching that tomorrow. Later this week, we'll go to the main Verizon store and test several. Here's good info from the Sprint site...scroll down to see the questions/answers together -------------- Original message -------------- > > In a message dated 11/7/2005 6:22:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > maryemapa@... writes: > > Do your families have sidekicks? All the deaf kids out here have > them and I was thinking that Hayley could have one when she is 14. > > > > > Ian just has a regular cell phone. Our ASL tutor, who is a hearing child of > deaf parents, had a sidekick. Her parents have them, so they got them for both > their kids. But she found it cumbersome and preferred a simpler flip phone. > It has a camera in it, but then, so many do now. I've looked at them, but > found it would mean changing our phone carrier as well and that seems like a > bit > much just to try out something that we've heard is " okay but a bit too much. " > > Than again, Ian loves gadgets. So maybe we'll have him play with a friend's > before making that leap. He now has a $150 calculator -- needed for the > advanced math. And before we realized it, the kids had all downloaded games and > were sharing different games. Apparently this is so common that there is now a > choice on the progress reports for teachers to check off that says: > unacceptable use of calculator. I told Ian if that came back to us as checked, > he'd be > back to the $5 version from Walmart. (grin) > > Best - Jill > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 Do your families have sidekicks? All the deaf kids out here have them and I was thinking that Hayley could have one when she is 14. I use a Sidekick and my husband uses a Treo. It definitely isn't cheap--almost $100 a month for the two of us. My kids will have to have jobs before they get one from us. Putz Illinois Families for Hands & Voices _www.handsandvoices.org_ (http://www.handsandvoices.org/) _www.ilhandsandvoices.org_ (http://www.ilhandsandvoices.org/) Email: support@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 What's a sidekick? Joan and Jill Joan - so glad to hear that your son is doing well. I know there are lots of Ventura county kids at Northridge and that's great that he gets to visit with him. My sister graduated from UCLA and also loved it. She was really into the football scene - I understand UCLA is doing pretty well this year - so that added to her fun. My 17 year old, still at Camarillo High, was just accepted at Bloomsburg U here in PA, which has a deaf ed major - but for some reason she is interested in PoliSci and German and arabic. We've just gone thru lots of Hayley drama with hives - she had a horrible outbreak but WPSD, her school, worked with us over the phone and we were able to alleviate them with some prednisone for now. Her reading seems to have improved already - she was reading a bio of E. Lee. The only downside is the driving to Pittsburgh but that is only about once every month or so, and it's a pretty, and fast drive - dont' have to fight LA traffic! Do your families have sidekicks? All the deaf kids out here have them and I was thinking that Hayley could have one when she is 14. Thanks > > > In a message dated 11/6/2005 11:26:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > starn655@s... writes: > > > He's doing very well-loving it. Has made a lot of new friends and is VERY > busy socially. Oh, and the school part is going well too. > > > > > Joan, > > Thanks so much for this post. Ian is just starting to talk about college > choices -- where and for what major. He's only a sophomore, but the next two > years are going to fly by SO fast! I just keep wondering how our boy is going to > do once it isn't high school and all the usual support isn't in place. But > then I read your notes and realize that the supports still can be there for > him. Reading that there's a DHH coordinator at UCLA just made me sigh with > relief. Ian hasn't mentioned UCLA as a choice (our hearing daughter has) but the > schools he's talking about are that big, which intimidates poor mom. (grin) > And I went to college in NYC, so just about any campus would be smaller than > where I went, LOL. > > Thanks! > Jill > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 What's a sidekick? Joan and Jill Joan - so glad to hear that your son is doing well. I know there are lots of Ventura county kids at Northridge and that's great that he gets to visit with him. My sister graduated from UCLA and also loved it. She was really into the football scene - I understand UCLA is doing pretty well this year - so that added to her fun. My 17 year old, still at Camarillo High, was just accepted at Bloomsburg U here in PA, which has a deaf ed major - but for some reason she is interested in PoliSci and German and arabic. We've just gone thru lots of Hayley drama with hives - she had a horrible outbreak but WPSD, her school, worked with us over the phone and we were able to alleviate them with some prednisone for now. Her reading seems to have improved already - she was reading a bio of E. Lee. The only downside is the driving to Pittsburgh but that is only about once every month or so, and it's a pretty, and fast drive - dont' have to fight LA traffic! Do your families have sidekicks? All the deaf kids out here have them and I was thinking that Hayley could have one when she is 14. Thanks > > > In a message dated 11/6/2005 11:26:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > starn655@s... writes: > > > He's doing very well-loving it. Has made a lot of new friends and is VERY > busy socially. Oh, and the school part is going well too. > > > > > Joan, > > Thanks so much for this post. Ian is just starting to talk about college > choices -- where and for what major. He's only a sophomore, but the next two > years are going to fly by SO fast! I just keep wondering how our boy is going to > do once it isn't high school and all the usual support isn't in place. But > then I read your notes and realize that the supports still can be there for > him. Reading that there's a DHH coordinator at UCLA just made me sigh with > relief. Ian hasn't mentioned UCLA as a choice (our hearing daughter has) but the > schools he's talking about are that big, which intimidates poor mom. (grin) > And I went to college in NYC, so just about any campus would be smaller than > where I went, LOL. > > Thanks! > Jill > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 What's a sidekick? Joan and Jill Joan - so glad to hear that your son is doing well. I know there are lots of Ventura county kids at Northridge and that's great that he gets to visit with him. My sister graduated from UCLA and also loved it. She was really into the football scene - I understand UCLA is doing pretty well this year - so that added to her fun. My 17 year old, still at Camarillo High, was just accepted at Bloomsburg U here in PA, which has a deaf ed major - but for some reason she is interested in PoliSci and German and arabic. We've just gone thru lots of Hayley drama with hives - she had a horrible outbreak but WPSD, her school, worked with us over the phone and we were able to alleviate them with some prednisone for now. Her reading seems to have improved already - she was reading a bio of E. Lee. The only downside is the driving to Pittsburgh but that is only about once every month or so, and it's a pretty, and fast drive - dont' have to fight LA traffic! Do your families have sidekicks? All the deaf kids out here have them and I was thinking that Hayley could have one when she is 14. Thanks > > > In a message dated 11/6/2005 11:26:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > starn655@s... writes: > > > He's doing very well-loving it. Has made a lot of new friends and is VERY > busy socially. Oh, and the school part is going well too. > > > > > Joan, > > Thanks so much for this post. Ian is just starting to talk about college > choices -- where and for what major. He's only a sophomore, but the next two > years are going to fly by SO fast! I just keep wondering how our boy is going to > do once it isn't high school and all the usual support isn't in place. But > then I read your notes and realize that the supports still can be there for > him. Reading that there's a DHH coordinator at UCLA just made me sigh with > relief. Ian hasn't mentioned UCLA as a choice (our hearing daughter has) but the > schools he's talking about are that big, which intimidates poor mom. (grin) > And I went to college in NYC, so just about any campus would be smaller than > where I went, LOL. > > Thanks! > Jill > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 JillcWood@... wrote: He now has a $150 calculator -- needed for the advanced math. And before we realized it, the kids had all downloaded games and were sharing different games. Apparently this is so common that there is now a choice on the progress reports for teachers to check off that says: unacceptable use of calculator. I told Ian if that came back to us as checked, he'd be back to the $5 version from Walmart. (grin) Wow! You can download games onto a calculator now? I'm an so technologically behind. Although I can see where it would be tempting to do....especially if your class is boring. Debbie, mom to , 6, moderate SNHL and , 3, hearing Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. G.B Shaw --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 In a message dated 11/7/2005 10:56:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, semesky@... writes: I went looking for new cel phones tonight...need five new ones...and saw that several were now rated " hearing aid-M3 " The Verizon guy indicated that these were designed to eliminate feedback. Plan on researching that tomorrow. Later this week, we'll go to the main Verizon store and test several. Please let us know how this goes! Our son's new aids don't work well with his cell phone. The t-coils on the digital aids are more finicky than the analog ones. And from what everyone has told me, the issue is the phone. Cell phones have not been required to be t-coil compatible up to this point. But by the end of 2005 they are required to make that improvement. So, I'll be cell shopping soon as well and it is a daunting task. I asked a bunch of sales people and they look at me like I'm crazy. Then flip through their paperwork and can't find any information on it. Then I've emailed the manufacturers with the questions and they have yet to answer me -- the people answering the emails don't know what a t-coil is, so they answer questions I never asked. (!?) (sigh) I've said we're just going to have to go from store to store and let the boy try the phones ... and I don't even know if that is a possibility. Can we walk into Verison and say: Let the boy make a call on this one and this one and this one? I've never heard of test driving a cell phone. Ugh. Best -- Jill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 In a message dated 11/8/2005 1:59:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, babydewe2@... writes: Although I can see where it would be tempting to do....especially if your class is boring. LOL, and now that can get you detention! Thank goodness you can't pass notes on the things! When bored I use to doodle around the edges of my papers. And my math teacher really hated that. He was a real control freak and anything extra on the page except " showing your work " made him nuts. I always got lousy notebook grades but straight As on the tests. (grin) Jill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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