[Listen-Up how we are doing

January 22, 2006

So I had the ToD (teacher of the deaf) that works for the county, come in an

evaluate Rhiannon before the holidays.. I finally got in touch with her

about her findings. I got an earful. Seems like Rhiannon is way ahead of the

kids in her program. She seemed almost insulted that I would take up her time

to come see Rhiannon since she is 'doing so well' . She used this. This is

the for an example... Rhiannon's teacher asked the kids to name a device that

helped us. Rhiannon answered, " My hearing aids are a device that help me

hear'. She said her kids wouldn't even be able to tell you what a device was. I

didn't realize hearing impaired meant mentally slow....but that's how she was

describing her HI kids...

She also commented on Rhiannon not wearing her hearing aids for 30 or the

60 minutes she observed her. She went on to tell me there was nothing they

could do for Rhiannon if she wasn't going to wear her HAs'. I said I would hope

the teacher would say something to her if she saw her without them and then I

got an earful on how its Rhiannon's responsibility to keep them in...I know

this and I wish I could get Rhiannon to wear them all the time...seems like

the second she removes them someone spots it! I have spoken to Rhiannon several

times about the importance of wearing her hearing aids but they need to

recognize she is only eleven and not a responsible eleven at that....SO to sum

it up...Rhiannon does not qualify to enter the counties program...but she will

make a few suggestions to the teachers in a letter to be read at the SST

meeting tomorrow.

I'm not sure where we will go from here but I'll keep you posted.

Birchfield.

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