Some of my readers may have seen that I recently took this little guy in to have his hearing evaluated. At 16 months, I realized he’s behind in speech and language, and suspected it might be due to not hearing well. So, I took him in to an audiologist, and sure enough, he is/was having some middle ear issues (likely … Read More
I’m a Speech Therapist, and My Baby Needs Speech Therapy
I was on an EHDI (Early Hearing Detection and Intervention) phone call recently and one of the participants talked about how parental guilt can prevent parents from moving forward with treatment…and I’ll be honest, I didn’t really get it. I mean, I thought, well, you just do it. But I was coming from my therapist perspective, where you can step … Read More
How My Parenting Affects the Way I Do Therapy
You guys, before I became a parent, I knew SO much about parenting. I knew what other parents were doing wrong, what they should be doing, and exactly why. And then I had kids. BAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The joke was on me, because having kids taught me that I had no idea what I was talking about. We’re 3 years into this … Read More
Self Advocacy Skills for Your Toddler with Hearing Loss (ages 2-3)
If you read my post about why self advocacy skills are important, you already know that I am all about supporting our children to be as independent as possible, as early as possible. And, yes, this includes self advocacy skills for your toddler. It may be hard to think about toddlers who has hearing loss working on self-advocacy skills. After … Read More
Self Advocacy For Kids with Hearing Loss: Becoming a Successful Adult Starts Right Now
I went to a session on transition (moving from school to adult life) and self advocacy at the recent Midwest Conference on Deaf Education with few expectations. After all, I work with children, and didn’t think that I would find much practical application. But, it was an interesting topic and so I went. And now I can’t stop thinking about … Read More
5 Tips I’ve Learned from Having a Child in Therapy
I’ve mentioned it before in this post, but our baby (who is very quickly approaching 1 and not-a-baby-anymore status) is in physical therapy. He was born with torticollis which is basically tight muscles, and like to use one side (the right) of his body more than the other (the left). Being a therapist and also a mom who is in … Read More
Make the Call
Every parent knows that feeling when your intuition tells you something about your kiddo is just “off.” Maybe they ate slightly less at dinner, or woke up an extra time or two last night and you wonder if they’re not feeling well. Maybe it’s something bigger, like a nagging feeling they just aren’t talking as much as you would have … Read More