Speech Therapy at Home
You know how enthusiastically I recommend the Signing Time DVDs as a resource for developing expressive and receptive language skills in young children, even those whose hearing is normal. I’ve...
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Whoops, it’s all pixelly. No time to fix it now—back later! UPDATED: Well, I tried and tried. I don’t know what’s wrong with the upload. Tried saving the movie file in various formats, but it comes...
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Signing with Babies, My Favorite Topic
After watching Rilla, Monica asked: I was wondering what the research says about how hearing kids learning sign affects (if it does at all) their verbal speech acquisition. I assume it is like my 4yo...
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The Speech Banana
This Lilting House post gets more search-engine hits than anything else I’ve written. Every week I am amazed by how many people land on my blog via a search for “speech banana” and related terms. I...
View ArticleHard-of-Hearing Kid Posts
Still trying to tidy up my archives. Here are the most substantive posts I’ve written about Wonderboy’s hearing loss: The Speech Banana (hearing loss diagnosis) Getting Ear Molds Made (a photoessay)...
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Reprise: The Speech Banana
Originally posted in June 2006. Wonderboy’s hearing loss came as a shock to us. Sure, we knew he’d failed the newborn hearing test. Three times. But those rounds of testing were administered in the...
View ArticleUnsolicited Signing Time Commercial
What Rilla’s saying at the end there is “With Alex, Leah, and Hopkins.” Totally unprompted, I swear. When I watched our Christmas 2005 video the other day, the bit that gave me the biggest pang of...
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