Beginnings

So Tuesday a lady named Dianne came out from a program called Beginnings. It is a program that is for parents of chidren who are deaf or hard of hearing. She was super nice and knowledgeable. She has a son who has a hearing impairment, ironically her older son played baseball w/tony in middle school. Talk about a small world. Tony was so wonderful about being here for the meeting even though he didnt want to be, not because he doesnt care but because he has a short attention span and knew it would be kind of long. I cannot lie, the first part was pretty boring while she was discussing the anatomy of the ear and how hearing works. She did help us learn to read an audiogram and other hearing tests and plotted Lilli's hearing on a chart that is much more explaitory. I will post it as its own post later. She also talked about communication options for Lilli, obviously we chose oral spoken language, however for children that are more severe they can connect those parents w/people who do ASL or expressive sign language. Dianne was actually part of my inspiration for starting my blog in the first place. She told me I needed to find an outlet for my feelings and I thought this would be good too because then everyone can be updated at the same time, plus now when you google it will pop up and maybe we can be an inspiration for other parents going through the same thing. Dianne wont come back out to the house for a year unless we ask her too. SHe will keep in touch by phone or email but unless she quits or retires she will be our parent support person until Lilli turns 22 :) If you want more information on the program feel free to visit http://www.ncbegin.org/index.php