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All the chances I can stand | Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. In this world, two plus two equal five. All the chances I can stand. June 17, 2015. Lei is out of school even though school isn’t out yet. On Monday I took her to a very fancy doctor who took an extensive history of Lei’s hives, repeated colds and stomach problems, examined her, and then told me to toughen up and force her to go to school even when she says she feels sick. Lei began to talk to me about school. She said the girls make excuses so that they don’t...All thi...
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Autistic-like, a.k.a. an odd duck | Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. In this world, two plus two equal five. Autistic-like, a.k.a. an odd duck. July 2, 2015. Yesterday the family went out to dinner to celebrate my husband’s birthday. I got a hearty salad and a half-pound of crab legs. I adore them, even if I don’t dip into the lemon butter as heartily as I once did. That is Lei at her best. Connected, engaged, communicating, learning, and enjoying herself. And I have investigated whether my daughter is on the spectrum. I needed to pu...
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Speech bananas and moonbeams | Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. In this world, two plus two equal five. Speech bananas and moonbeams. January 26, 2015. May 26, 2015. One day when my daughter, Lei, was 16 months old, I found myself chatting with another mom and her daughter, who was within a month of Lei’s age. The girls were playing and this other mom and I were making the kind of small talk that moms of young children can make even if they don’t know each other well. I thought it went well. For once Lei stayed engaged and made ...
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From the Archive: House of Stone | Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. In this world, two plus two equal five. From the Archive: House of Stone. May 20, 2015. May 26, 2015. Lei, age two or three, getting an airplane at bedtime. I wrote this story when Lei was two and the mere ability to communicate with her still awed me. Bed-making came right before bedtime tonight. My two-year-old daughter took all the snapping and floating of bedding as permission to jump on the bed and pretend to swim in the waves of fuzzy blue blankets. As I introduce...
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Getting off the merry-go-round | Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. In this world, two plus two equal five. Getting off the merry-go-round. July 10, 2015. July 10, 2015. That’s it. I give up. Time to get off. Lei has changed schools seven times between pre-k and the end of fifth grade. She’s been homeschooled twice, once for second and part of third grade, once for the first month of fourth grade, before she got a spot at her most recent school, which we shall refer to heretofore as Hippy Dippy Palace or HDP. Husband and I were optimist...
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julietmartinez | Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. In this world, two plus two equal five. A duty, nay, a privilege. April 14, 2016. April 14, 2016. I have a friend whose baby was born around the same time as D. Back then she didn’t have a car so when I drove into downtown to go to Whole Foods, she would go with me and stock up on the things our neighborhood stores didn’t carry. We got some healthy food and good company, our babies got a car ride and a ride in a cart. Click to share on Google (Opens in new window).
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Race, racism and my white, deaf daughter | Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. In this world, two plus two equal five. Race, racism and my white, deaf daughter. June 24, 2015. June 23, 2015. Lei and I have been talking a lot about the killing of nine African Americans in their church in Charleston, SC, on June 17. Institutionalized racism, economic injustice and police brutality. But I don’t want her to be uninformed, apathetic or helpless. As a white parent of light-skinned children, that very privilege lets me choose when I teach my children abo...
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Look not upon the seed, look upon the tree | Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. In this world, two plus two equal five. Look not upon the seed, look upon the tree. June 3, 2015. June 3, 2015. When I picked the color for Lei’s first hearing aids, it was a major philosophical decision: hide or flaunt? Did I want her to blend in or stand out? Did I hope for her to be mistaken for normal? Did I dream for her deafness to go unnoticed or celebrated? What do you think I chose? Her first hearing aids were bright pink. Why did I think about it so deeply?
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child | In this world, two plus two equal five. | Page 2
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. In this world, two plus two equal five. And I thought the cochlear implants were for her …. November 17, 2015. We have been enjoying Lei’s return to what for her is normal hearing. I wrote this reflection on the impact of her first cochlear implant on our family life shortly after her second implant surgery. Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. Lei heads back to school with her new CI activated for the first time. October, 2014. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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Speech bananas and moonbeams | Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child
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Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. In this world, two plus two equal five. Speech bananas and moonbeams. May 27, 2015. For those who are new here, the story of Lei’s diagnosis and how we got started on this road. How did your journey begin? Parenting a Deaf and Gifted Child. When the other little girl began to fuss, her mom asked her, Are you hungry? Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). You are commenting...