Video of what sound looks like

[Guest guest]

Hi folks! I know I mostly keep quiet around here, but I've been

around a long time (*waves at Barbara*). My son (severe/profound

bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Phonak Savia BTEs and a

Microlink FM) is in third grade in our local public school.

We have a private auditory/oral speech/language pathologist with whom

we work regularly (she just graduated Teddy from weekly one-on-one

sessions to one monthly one-on-one session and one group session with

two other boys around his age), but we also get speech services at

school. For the most part, frankly, they've sucked. The SLP we had

for K-2 was completely uninterested in learning about working with

kids who have hearing loss. She had lots of kids with lots of issues,

and she knew all, yadda yadda yadda. I gave up on her after year one,

but didn't worry too much about things, since we had private speech.

Well, this year, we still have private speech, but the SLP at school

is a different one, and is much more into her job. However, she

doesn't have a lot of experience with hearing-impaired kids, and so

she's really been working on thing from, as far as I can tell, the

wrong angle. She's CONVINCED that Teddy can hear a sibilant 's'

sound, but his hearing aids only amplify to about 6500hz, and the

sparkly sound of the 's' is well above that. She still thought that

she should try to work with Teddy as she works with all her students

who have a lisp...and we went around and around about this so many

times, I was ready to give up.

Then, through a sequence of events, I was able to produce the

following movies. They show the full spectrum of the sound, in hz,

and then there's a box to demonstrate what section of those sounds

the hearing aids can amplify. I found it pretty instructive, so I

thought I'd share it with you. You'll have to log in with the

following information:

username: listen

password: up

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.mov (better for Mac users)

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.wmv (better for Windows users)

Feel free to show these to the professionals with whom you work, if

you find yourself in a similar situation to the one we're in. (Just

please don't link to the videos from a web site, or publish the

username/password on the web...thanks!)

Hope it's helpful. :-)

--Kerri

[Guest guest]

Hi Kerry, did you know about the " First Years " program through AG Bell - for

teachers SLPs etc to learn auditory oral/verbal?? It's an online distance

learning program. If you ever find an SLP that truly wants to learn they might

want to look at this program. in GA

Video of what sound looks like

>

>Hi folks! I know I mostly keep quiet around here, but I've been

>around a long time (*waves at Barbara*). My son (severe/profound

>bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Phonak Savia BTEs and a

>Microlink FM) is in third grade in our local public school.

>

>We have a private auditory/oral speech/language pathologist with whom

>we work regularly (she just graduated Teddy from weekly one-on-one

>sessions to one monthly one-on-one session and one group session with

>two other boys around his age), but we also get speech services at

>school. For the most part, frankly, they've sucked. The SLP we had

>for K-2 was completely uninterested in learning about working with

>kids who have hearing loss. She had lots of kids with lots of issues,

>and she knew all, yadda yadda yadda. I gave up on her after year one,

>but didn't worry too much about things, since we had private speech.

>

>Well, this year, we still have private speech, but the SLP at school

>is a different one, and is much more into her job. However, she

>doesn't have a lot of experience with hearing-impaired kids, and so

>she's really been working on thing from, as far as I can tell, the

>wrong angle. She's CONVINCED that Teddy can hear a sibilant 's'

>sound, but his hearing aids only amplify to about 6500hz, and the

>sparkly sound of the 's' is well above that. She still thought that

>she should try to work with Teddy as she works with all her students

>who have a lisp...and we went around and around about this so many

>times, I was ready to give up.

>

>Then, through a sequence of events, I was able to produce the

>following movies. They show the full spectrum of the sound, in hz,

>and then there's a box to demonstrate what section of those sounds

>the hearing aids can amplify. I found it pretty instructive, so I

>thought I'd share it with you. You'll have to log in with the

>following information:

>

>username: listen

>password: up

>

>http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.mov (better for Mac users)

>http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.wmv (better for Windows users)

>

>Feel free to show these to the professionals with whom you work, if

>you find yourself in a similar situation to the one we're in. (Just

>please don't link to the videos from a web site, or publish the

>username/password on the web...thanks!)

>

>Hope it's helpful. :-)

>

>--Kerri

>

>

>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.

>

[Guest guest]

>

> Hi Kerry, did you know about the " First Years " program through AG

Bell - for teachers SLPs etc to learn auditory oral/verbal?? It's an

online distance learning program. If you ever find an SLP that truly

wants to learn they might want to look at this program. in GA

Hi . Thanks for the info! I'll pass it along to the SLP. I am

sure she'll say that $2500 for two years of courses is steep, but you

never know. She's not a bad lady, and she really does want to help. :-)

Best,

Kerri

[Guest guest]

Kerri,

I just noticed your email address. I live on the East Side of

Provdence. Are you in the area?

Video of what sound looks like

Hi folks! I know I mostly keep quiet around here, but I've been

around a long time (*waves at Barbara*). My son (severe/profound

bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Phonak Savia BTEs and a

Microlink FM) is in third grade in our local public school.

We have a private auditory/oral speech/language pathologist with whom

we work regularly (she just graduated Teddy from weekly one-on-one

sessions to one monthly one-on-one session and one group session with

two other boys around his age), but we also get speech services at

school. For the most part, frankly, they've sucked. The SLP we had

for K-2 was completely uninterested in learning about working with

kids who have hearing loss. She had lots of kids with lots of issues,

and she knew all, yadda yadda yadda. I gave up on her after year one,

but didn't worry too much about things, since we had private speech.

Well, this year, we still have private speech, but the SLP at school

is a different one, and is much more into her job. However, she

doesn't have a lot of experience with hearing-impaired kids, and so

she's really been working on thing from, as far as I can tell, the

wrong angle. She's CONVINCED that Teddy can hear a sibilant 's'

sound, but his hearing aids only amplify to about 6500hz, and the

sparkly sound of the 's' is well above that. She still thought that

she should try to work with Teddy as she works with all her students

who have a lisp...and we went around and around about this so many

times, I was ready to give up.

Then, through a sequence of events, I was able to produce the

following movies. They show the full spectrum of the sound, in hz,

and then there's a box to demonstrate what section of those sounds

the hearing aids can amplify. I found it pretty instructive, so I

thought I'd share it with you. You'll have to log in with the

following information:

username: listen

password: up

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.mov (better for Mac users)

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.wmv (better for Windows users)

Feel free to show these to the professionals with whom you work, if

you find yourself in a similar situation to the one we're in. (Just

please don't link to the videos from a web site, or publish the

username/password on the web...thanks!)

Hope it's helpful. :-)

--Kerri

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.

[Guest guest]

Kerri,

I just noticed your email address. I live on the East Side of

Provdence. Are you in the area?

Video of what sound looks like

Hi folks! I know I mostly keep quiet around here, but I've been

around a long time (*waves at Barbara*). My son (severe/profound

bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Phonak Savia BTEs and a

Microlink FM) is in third grade in our local public school.

We have a private auditory/oral speech/language pathologist with whom

we work regularly (she just graduated Teddy from weekly one-on-one

sessions to one monthly one-on-one session and one group session with

two other boys around his age), but we also get speech services at

school. For the most part, frankly, they've sucked. The SLP we had

for K-2 was completely uninterested in learning about working with

kids who have hearing loss. She had lots of kids with lots of issues,

and she knew all, yadda yadda yadda. I gave up on her after year one,

but didn't worry too much about things, since we had private speech.

Well, this year, we still have private speech, but the SLP at school

is a different one, and is much more into her job. However, she

doesn't have a lot of experience with hearing-impaired kids, and so

she's really been working on thing from, as far as I can tell, the

wrong angle. She's CONVINCED that Teddy can hear a sibilant 's'

sound, but his hearing aids only amplify to about 6500hz, and the

sparkly sound of the 's' is well above that. She still thought that

she should try to work with Teddy as she works with all her students

who have a lisp...and we went around and around about this so many

times, I was ready to give up.

Then, through a sequence of events, I was able to produce the

following movies. They show the full spectrum of the sound, in hz,

and then there's a box to demonstrate what section of those sounds

the hearing aids can amplify. I found it pretty instructive, so I

thought I'd share it with you. You'll have to log in with the

following information:

username: listen

password: up

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.mov (better for Mac users)

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.wmv (better for Windows users)

Feel free to show these to the professionals with whom you work, if

you find yourself in a similar situation to the one we're in. (Just

please don't link to the videos from a web site, or publish the

username/password on the web...thanks!)

Hope it's helpful. :-)

--Kerri

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.

[Guest guest]

Kerri,

I just noticed your email address. I live on the East Side of

Providence. Are you in the area?

Strom

Video of what sound looks like

Hi folks! I know I mostly keep quiet around here, but I've been

around a long time (*waves at Barbara*). My son (severe/profound

bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Phonak Savia BTEs and a

Microlink FM) is in third grade in our local public school.

We have a private auditory/oral speech/language pathologist with whom

we work regularly (she just graduated Teddy from weekly one-on-one

sessions to one monthly one-on-one session and one group session with

two other boys around his age), but we also get speech services at

school. For the most part, frankly, they've sucked. The SLP we had

for K-2 was completely uninterested in learning about working with

kids who have hearing loss. She had lots of kids with lots of issues,

and she knew all, yadda yadda yadda. I gave up on her after year one,

but didn't worry too much about things, since we had private speech.

Well, this year, we still have private speech, but the SLP at school

is a different one, and is much more into her job. However, she

doesn't have a lot of experience with hearing-impaired kids, and so

she's really been working on thing from, as far as I can tell, the

wrong angle. She's CONVINCED that Teddy can hear a sibilant 's'

sound, but his hearing aids only amplify to about 6500hz, and the

sparkly sound of the 's' is well above that. She still thought that

she should try to work with Teddy as she works with all her students

who have a lisp...and we went around and around about this so many

times, I was ready to give up.

Then, through a sequence of events, I was able to produce the

following movies. They show the full spectrum of the sound, in hz,

and then there's a box to demonstrate what section of those sounds

the hearing aids can amplify. I found it pretty instructive, so I

thought I'd share it with you. You'll have to log in with the

following information:

username: listen

password: up

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.mov (better for Mac users)

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.wmv (better for Windows users)

Feel free to show these to the professionals with whom you work, if

you find yourself in a similar situation to the one we're in. (Just

please don't link to the videos from a web site, or publish the

username/password on the web...thanks!)

Hope it's helpful. :-)

--Kerri

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.

[Guest guest]

Kerri,

I just noticed your email address. I live on the East Side of

Providence. Are you in the area?

Strom

Video of what sound looks like

Hi folks! I know I mostly keep quiet around here, but I've been

around a long time (*waves at Barbara*). My son (severe/profound

bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Phonak Savia BTEs and a

Microlink FM) is in third grade in our local public school.

We have a private auditory/oral speech/language pathologist with whom

we work regularly (she just graduated Teddy from weekly one-on-one

sessions to one monthly one-on-one session and one group session with

two other boys around his age), but we also get speech services at

school. For the most part, frankly, they've sucked. The SLP we had

for K-2 was completely uninterested in learning about working with

kids who have hearing loss. She had lots of kids with lots of issues,

and she knew all, yadda yadda yadda. I gave up on her after year one,

but didn't worry too much about things, since we had private speech.

Well, this year, we still have private speech, but the SLP at school

is a different one, and is much more into her job. However, she

doesn't have a lot of experience with hearing-impaired kids, and so

she's really been working on thing from, as far as I can tell, the

wrong angle. She's CONVINCED that Teddy can hear a sibilant 's'

sound, but his hearing aids only amplify to about 6500hz, and the

sparkly sound of the 's' is well above that. She still thought that

she should try to work with Teddy as she works with all her students

who have a lisp...and we went around and around about this so many

times, I was ready to give up.

Then, through a sequence of events, I was able to produce the

following movies. They show the full spectrum of the sound, in hz,

and then there's a box to demonstrate what section of those sounds

the hearing aids can amplify. I found it pretty instructive, so I

thought I'd share it with you. You'll have to log in with the

following information:

username: listen

password: up

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.mov (better for Mac users)

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.wmv (better for Windows users)

Feel free to show these to the professionals with whom you work, if

you find yourself in a similar situation to the one we're in. (Just

please don't link to the videos from a web site, or publish the

username/password on the web...thanks!)

Hope it's helpful. :-)

--Kerri

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.

[Guest guest]

Kerri,

I just noticed your email address. I live on the East Side of

Providence. Are you in the area?

Strom

Video of what sound looks like

Hi folks! I know I mostly keep quiet around here, but I've been

around a long time (*waves at Barbara*). My son (severe/profound

bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Phonak Savia BTEs and a

Microlink FM) is in third grade in our local public school.

We have a private auditory/oral speech/language pathologist with whom

we work regularly (she just graduated Teddy from weekly one-on-one

sessions to one monthly one-on-one session and one group session with

two other boys around his age), but we also get speech services at

school. For the most part, frankly, they've sucked. The SLP we had

for K-2 was completely uninterested in learning about working with

kids who have hearing loss. She had lots of kids with lots of issues,

and she knew all, yadda yadda yadda. I gave up on her after year one,

but didn't worry too much about things, since we had private speech.

Well, this year, we still have private speech, but the SLP at school

is a different one, and is much more into her job. However, she

doesn't have a lot of experience with hearing-impaired kids, and so

she's really been working on thing from, as far as I can tell, the

wrong angle. She's CONVINCED that Teddy can hear a sibilant 's'

sound, but his hearing aids only amplify to about 6500hz, and the

sparkly sound of the 's' is well above that. She still thought that

she should try to work with Teddy as she works with all her students

who have a lisp...and we went around and around about this so many

times, I was ready to give up.

Then, through a sequence of events, I was able to produce the

following movies. They show the full spectrum of the sound, in hz,

and then there's a box to demonstrate what section of those sounds

the hearing aids can amplify. I found it pretty instructive, so I

thought I'd share it with you. You'll have to log in with the

following information:

username: listen

password: up

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.mov (better for Mac users)

http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.wmv (better for Windows users)

Feel free to show these to the professionals with whom you work, if

you find yourself in a similar situation to the one we're in. (Just

please don't link to the videos from a web site, or publish the

username/password on the web...thanks!)

Hope it's helpful. :-)

--Kerri

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.

[Guest guest]

Kerri, how did you do this?? I did a little project about 10 years ago where I

tested hearing people's ability to hear in noise. Used the Mac software and it

did some really neat stuff. I took tapes of cafeteria noise and mixed it with

CID words and sentences. There was a remarkable variability in ability to hear

intelligibly in noise. We did something where we ran it through a program and

it would show and print out various sounds. Something like what you did onlly

on one track. It really helps to have a picture when describing something so

invisible.

Another question: I had heard that HA only went to 4000 hz. Are the Savia's

relatively new or did I just not know that HA could go to 6500? Thanks,

>From: stromms@...

>Sent: Feb 2, 2006 4:59 PM

>To: Listen-Up

>Subject: Re: Video of what sound looks like

>

>Kerri,

>

>I just noticed your email address. I live on the East Side of

>Providence. Are you in the area?

>

> Strom

>

> Video of what sound looks like

>

> Hi folks! I know I mostly keep quiet around here, but I've been

>around a long time (*waves at Barbara*). My son (severe/profound

>bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Phonak Savia BTEs and a

>Microlink FM) is in third grade in our local public school.

>

>We have a private auditory/oral speech/language pathologist with whom

>we work regularly (she just graduated Teddy from weekly one-on-one

>sessions to one monthly one-on-one session and one group session with

>two other boys around his age), but we also get speech services at

>school. For the most part, frankly, they've sucked. The SLP we had

>for K-2 was completely uninterested in learning about working with

>kids who have hearing loss. She had lots of kids with lots of issues,

>and she knew all, yadda yadda yadda. I gave up on her after year one,

>but didn't worry too much about things, since we had private speech.

>

>Well, this year, we still have private speech, but the SLP at school

>is a different one, and is much more into her job. However, she

>doesn't have a lot of experience with hearing-impaired kids, and so

>she's really been working on thing from, as far as I can tell, the

>wrong angle. She's CONVINCED that Teddy can hear a sibilant 's'

>sound, but his hearing aids only amplify to about 6500hz, and the

>sparkly sound of the 's' is well above that. She still thought that

>she should try to work with Teddy as she works with all her students

>who have a lisp...and we went around and around about this so many

>times, I was ready to give up.

>

>Then, through a sequence of events, I was able to produce the

>following movies. They show the full spectrum of the sound, in hz,

>and then there's a box to demonstrate what section of those sounds

>the hearing aids can amplify. I found it pretty instructive, so I

>thought I'd share it with you. You'll have to log in with the

>following information:

>

>username: listen

>password: up

>

>http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.mov (better for Mac users)

>http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.wmv (better for Windows users)

>

>Feel free to show these to the professionals with whom you work, if

>you find yourself in a similar situation to the one we're in. (Just

>please don't link to the videos from a web site, or publish the

>username/password on the web...thanks!)

>

>Hope it's helpful. :-)

>

>--Kerri

>

>

>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.

>

[Guest guest]

Kerri, how did you do this?? I did a little project about 10 years ago where I

tested hearing people's ability to hear in noise. Used the Mac software and it

did some really neat stuff. I took tapes of cafeteria noise and mixed it with

CID words and sentences. There was a remarkable variability in ability to hear

intelligibly in noise. We did something where we ran it through a program and

it would show and print out various sounds. Something like what you did onlly

on one track. It really helps to have a picture when describing something so

invisible.

Another question: I had heard that HA only went to 4000 hz. Are the Savia's

relatively new or did I just not know that HA could go to 6500? Thanks,

>From: stromms@...

>Sent: Feb 2, 2006 4:59 PM

>To: Listen-Up

>Subject: Re: Video of what sound looks like

>

>Kerri,

>

>I just noticed your email address. I live on the East Side of

>Providence. Are you in the area?

>

> Strom

>

> Video of what sound looks like

>

> Hi folks! I know I mostly keep quiet around here, but I've been

>around a long time (*waves at Barbara*). My son (severe/profound

>bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Phonak Savia BTEs and a

>Microlink FM) is in third grade in our local public school.

>

>We have a private auditory/oral speech/language pathologist with whom

>we work regularly (she just graduated Teddy from weekly one-on-one

>sessions to one monthly one-on-one session and one group session with

>two other boys around his age), but we also get speech services at

>school. For the most part, frankly, they've sucked. The SLP we had

>for K-2 was completely uninterested in learning about working with

>kids who have hearing loss. She had lots of kids with lots of issues,

>and she knew all, yadda yadda yadda. I gave up on her after year one,

>but didn't worry too much about things, since we had private speech.

>

>Well, this year, we still have private speech, but the SLP at school

>is a different one, and is much more into her job. However, she

>doesn't have a lot of experience with hearing-impaired kids, and so

>she's really been working on thing from, as far as I can tell, the

>wrong angle. She's CONVINCED that Teddy can hear a sibilant 's'

>sound, but his hearing aids only amplify to about 6500hz, and the

>sparkly sound of the 's' is well above that. She still thought that

>she should try to work with Teddy as she works with all her students

>who have a lisp...and we went around and around about this so many

>times, I was ready to give up.

>

>Then, through a sequence of events, I was able to produce the

>following movies. They show the full spectrum of the sound, in hz,

>and then there's a box to demonstrate what section of those sounds

>the hearing aids can amplify. I found it pretty instructive, so I

>thought I'd share it with you. You'll have to log in with the

>following information:

>

>username: listen

>password: up

>

>http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.mov (better for Mac users)

>http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.wmv (better for Windows users)

>

>Feel free to show these to the professionals with whom you work, if

>you find yourself in a similar situation to the one we're in. (Just

>please don't link to the videos from a web site, or publish the

>username/password on the web...thanks!)

>

>Hope it's helpful. :-)

>

>--Kerri

>

>

>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.

>

[Guest guest]

Kerri, how did you do this?? I did a little project about 10 years ago where I

tested hearing people's ability to hear in noise. Used the Mac software and it

did some really neat stuff. I took tapes of cafeteria noise and mixed it with

CID words and sentences. There was a remarkable variability in ability to hear

intelligibly in noise. We did something where we ran it through a program and

it would show and print out various sounds. Something like what you did onlly

on one track. It really helps to have a picture when describing something so

invisible.

Another question: I had heard that HA only went to 4000 hz. Are the Savia's

relatively new or did I just not know that HA could go to 6500? Thanks,

>From: stromms@...

>Sent: Feb 2, 2006 4:59 PM

>To: Listen-Up

>Subject: Re: Video of what sound looks like

>

>Kerri,

>

>I just noticed your email address. I live on the East Side of

>Providence. Are you in the area?

>

> Strom

>

> Video of what sound looks like

>

> Hi folks! I know I mostly keep quiet around here, but I've been

>around a long time (*waves at Barbara*). My son (severe/profound

>bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Phonak Savia BTEs and a

>Microlink FM) is in third grade in our local public school.

>

>We have a private auditory/oral speech/language pathologist with whom

>we work regularly (she just graduated Teddy from weekly one-on-one

>sessions to one monthly one-on-one session and one group session with

>two other boys around his age), but we also get speech services at

>school. For the most part, frankly, they've sucked. The SLP we had

>for K-2 was completely uninterested in learning about working with

>kids who have hearing loss. She had lots of kids with lots of issues,

>and she knew all, yadda yadda yadda. I gave up on her after year one,

>but didn't worry too much about things, since we had private speech.

>

>Well, this year, we still have private speech, but the SLP at school

>is a different one, and is much more into her job. However, she

>doesn't have a lot of experience with hearing-impaired kids, and so

>she's really been working on thing from, as far as I can tell, the

>wrong angle. She's CONVINCED that Teddy can hear a sibilant 's'

>sound, but his hearing aids only amplify to about 6500hz, and the

>sparkly sound of the 's' is well above that. She still thought that

>she should try to work with Teddy as she works with all her students

>who have a lisp...and we went around and around about this so many

>times, I was ready to give up.

>

>Then, through a sequence of events, I was able to produce the

>following movies. They show the full spectrum of the sound, in hz,

>and then there's a box to demonstrate what section of those sounds

>the hearing aids can amplify. I found it pretty instructive, so I

>thought I'd share it with you. You'll have to log in with the

>following information:

>

>username: listen

>password: up

>

>http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.mov (better for Mac users)

>http://www.techtorial.com/sounds/sounds.wmv (better for Windows users)

>

>Feel free to show these to the professionals with whom you work, if

>you find yourself in a similar situation to the one we're in. (Just

>please don't link to the videos from a web site, or publish the

>username/password on the web...thanks!)

>

>Hope it's helpful. :-)

>

>--Kerri

>

>

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>post is the

>intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to copyright

>restrictions.

>

[Guest guest]

Maybe your school system will pay for it. With more and more kids with CI's

they will need more and more SLPs and teachers who actually know what they are

doing! Costs 2500 for teacher training or 20,000 for lawsuit??? My stupid

county would pick the lawsuit, but hopefully other school systems would " do

right " as we say in the south.

Re: Video of what sound looks like

>

>

>>

>> Hi Kerry, did you know about the " First Years " program through AG

>Bell - for teachers SLPs etc to learn auditory oral/verbal?? It's an

>online distance learning program. If you ever find an SLP that truly

>wants to learn they might want to look at this program. in GA

>

>Hi . Thanks for the info! I'll pass it along to the SLP. I am

>sure she'll say that $2500 for two years of courses is steep, but you

>never know. She's not a bad lady, and she really does want to help. :-)

>

>Best,

>Kerri

>

>

>

>

>

>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.

>

[Guest guest]

Maybe your school system will pay for it. With more and more kids with CI's

they will need more and more SLPs and teachers who actually know what they are

doing! Costs 2500 for teacher training or 20,000 for lawsuit??? My stupid

county would pick the lawsuit, but hopefully other school systems would " do

right " as we say in the south.

Re: Video of what sound looks like

>

>

>>

>> Hi Kerry, did you know about the " First Years " program through AG

>Bell - for teachers SLPs etc to learn auditory oral/verbal?? It's an

>online distance learning program. If you ever find an SLP that truly

>wants to learn they might want to look at this program. in GA

>

>Hi . Thanks for the info! I'll pass it along to the SLP. I am

>sure she'll say that $2500 for two years of courses is steep, but you

>never know. She's not a bad lady, and she really does want to help. :-)

>

>Best,

>Kerri

>

>

>

>

>

>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.

>

[Guest guest]

Maybe your school system will pay for it. With more and more kids with CI's

they will need more and more SLPs and teachers who actually know what they are

doing! Costs 2500 for teacher training or 20,000 for lawsuit??? My stupid

county would pick the lawsuit, but hopefully other school systems would " do

right " as we say in the south.

Re: Video of what sound looks like

>

>

>>

>> Hi Kerry, did you know about the " First Years " program through AG

>Bell - for teachers SLPs etc to learn auditory oral/verbal?? It's an

>online distance learning program. If you ever find an SLP that truly

>wants to learn they might want to look at this program. in GA

>

>Hi . Thanks for the info! I'll pass it along to the SLP. I am

>sure she'll say that $2500 for two years of courses is steep, but you

>never know. She's not a bad lady, and she really does want to help. :-)

>

>Best,

>Kerri

>

>

>

>

>

>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.

>

[Guest guest]

>

> Kerri, how did you do this??

Hi . My partner has some fancy-schmancy software on his Mac.

It's designed, I think, for people who work in the field of sound

science and acoustics. So when you talk into the mic (or make any

other noise), it simply animates to show the loudness of particular

frequencies. I played with it for hours. :-)

> Another question: I had heard that HA only went to 4000 hz. Are the

Savia's relatively new or did I just not know that HA could go to 6500?

Hearing aids have different frequency ranges. Here are some examples.

Phonak Savia: <100hz-6500hz

Phonak Claro 311: 100–6700

ReSound Canta7: 250-6300

Oticon Syncro: 100-7500

Oticon Adapto: 100-5400

The frequency range of normal speech is said to top out at about

4000hz (I guess this is by folks who don't consider sibilants part of

'normal speech'). And I know that older hearing aids didn't have

nearly as high a top-out point...the technology has been improving

steadily.

What I can't understand is why it's so difficult for this SLP to

understand that my son can't auditorily self-monitor sounds he can't

hear. He CAN make the sounds -- eight years of speech therapy have

given him the skills to regularly make some sounds he can't hear. But

he's not perfect -- he's got a way to go, and he's NOT going to get

there with her insisting he repeat sounds he can't hear, like her

'other kids with lisps' do. :-)

--Kerri