One would expect only beautiful sunny weather at the end of August. Unfortunately we live in British Columbia and that means buckets of rain, any time of year. So when we planned our First Annual Hands & Voices Picnic for August 24th, we thought the weather would cooperate. No such luck.
0 comments - Posted by Sydelle Murphy at 2:55 PM - Categories: Events | Feb 2009 Newsletter
For the first $500 you contribute to your child’s RDSP, the government will contribute $1,500 to the plan. For the next $1,000 you contribute, the government will match it by another $2,000. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it’s true! Read on.
2 comments - Posted by Amy Ho at 6:55 PM - Categories: Finance | Feb 2009 Newsletter
My name is Rosalind Ho. Today I’m going to talk about how the cochlear implant helps me, its limitations, and the best way to communicate with a cochlear implant user.
Without the cochlear implant, I wouldn’t be able to hear at all. With the implant, as well as years of practice, I can now distinguish human speech. I can hear people as separate voices and not just sounds. Also, I can usually tell one person’s voice from another. Unless the background is very noisy, I can usually carry a conversation with a hearing person.
0 comments - Posted by Rosalind Ho at 6:22 PM - Categories: From Families to Families | Feb 2009 Newsletter
One of our favourite hearing aid stories is when we discovered that our son Connor had a knack for taking things apart. As Connor was diagnosed at birth he’s been wearing his little blue aids since he was 3 months. He’s generally pretty good about keeping them in! However one day I came into our living room to discover that not only had he taken them out, but he had completely dismantled both of his hearing aids. He had removed the ear moulds from the aids as well as the batteries and removed the tubes from the moulds. Needless to say that I could not put them back together again and we had to make an appointment to get them fixed. So we figure Connor will likely be an engineer or something because he was only 13 months at this time!
0 comments - Posted by Jenn Kipling at 7:06 PM - Categories: From Families to Families | Feb 2009 Newsletter
Hands & Voices started as a parent support group in Colorado in the mid-1990’s. This group was different from other groups at the time, as it embraced the idea that families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing have more in common than they have differences. They believed that there was no one “right” way to teach deaf and hard of hearing
0 comments - Posted by Chris Mallinson at 6:58 PM - Categories: Feb 2009 Newsletter