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Bott! Can I join in? I can play the flute, violin and piano.
I don't think you'd want me he he.. I play the piano so badly people leave the room.
Bott! Can I join in? I can play the flute, violin and piano.
Then I amend my statement. Most kindergartners are in class for less than 6 hours a day....they run 1/2 days.
I don't think you'd want me he he.. I play the piano so badly people leave the room.
I have no idea why this has turned into "Quiz Melissa on IQ testing", which I never claimed to know :roll:
But, you know what, I'm done.
I will talk about general threads, but my child is off limits.
Just to correct this. There are no oral state schools.....but there are Schools for the Deaf that have oral programs. Make sense now?
Faire_joure..........I hope I can be honest here. I know you have the best of intentions.....BUT I think you've been sucked into the thinking that you need to go all "stereotypical AG Bell family" with your daughter in order to get the most benifit from CI. That's understandable. Completely understandable. A lot of the pro oral and pro AVT stuff makes it sound like if a kid isn't in an intense program, they won't do as well as someone who isn't in that sort of program.
But what I think you're not quite understanding is that many of the kids who are VERY sucessful orally, are the oral version of those kids who are basicly "professional children" or they come from families where it's expected that they'll go to Name Brand University and become some high powered type.
You know.....the overprogrammed suburban type? And yes, Rick48 I know you don't think that....I know you're going to post about how most of the families you know through AG Bell are just average folks. All I can say is that you really are not reconizing your class privilage. I bet that the percentage of non upper middle class types in AG Bell is very small. Not saying that the input from a CI or HA isn't important......b/c it is. But quite a bit of the "oral sucess" seen in AG Bell isn't nessarily due to methodology......but rather that the demographic which can be overlly represented in the group tends to be very pro overprogramming children for sucess in life. I'm not bashing that lifestyle.......just saying that it does seem like a lot of the "sucess" may be due to the fact that it attracts families that view normal enrichement/extracurriculars as something that gives their kid an "edge"
As long as you have your kid in some sort of regular therapy with a qualified therapist she will develop oral abilty....She does not need to be in therapy 24/7. Give her time to be kid.....she'll pick up stuff without it being taught to her, just the way hoh kids do.
You know.....the overprogrammed suburban type? And yes, Rick48 I know you don't think that....I know you're going to post about how most of the families you know through AG Bell are just average folks. All I can say is that you really are not reconizing your class privilage. I bet that the percentage of non upper middle class types in AG Bell is very small. Not saying that the input from a CI or HA isn't important......b/c it is. But quite a bit of the "oral sucess" seen in AG Bell isn't nessarily due to methodology......but rather that the demographic which can be overlly represented in the group tends to be very pro overprogramming children for sucess in life. I'm not bashing that lifestyle.......just saying that it does seem like a lot of the "sucess" may be due to the fact that it attracts families that view normal enrichement/extracurriculars as something that gives their kid an "edge"
Doesn't the bolded sentence above kind of go against the idea that "some kids have the ability to have oral skills and some kids don't?"
Faire jour,
Don't let them bully you into stop providing information about your daughter's progress. It is exactly that type of information that parents researching the ci issue need to hear from other parents.
This is the same crap that is pulled all the time on other parents of ci kids. Ever wonder why virtually none of them ever post here?
Funny, but if you recall you were the greatest mother since sliced bread to a certain faction on this forum until you decided to give a cochlear implant to your daughter.
Hang in there you are tougher and definitely a better person!
Rick
Not all kindergartners are in class half of the day, (morning or afternoon) There is a full-day kindergarten. I know that for fact because my son was one of them, because of him being so young and didn't have pre-school before entering kindergarten they allow him to have a full day kindergarten.
Perhaps your perspective is a bit skewed, as you can see no further than a CI. It has absoultely nothing to do with CI or no CI. It is the result of a switch from a supportive attitude toward the deaf community and a fully accessable educational environment to a decidedly oral only focus. In fact, it began prior to FJ's daughter being implanted. There doesn't appear to be a correlation between oral only attitudes and a CI user, but there is definately a correlation between oral only attitudes and being the parent of a CI user.:roll: There also appears to be a direct correlation between being the parent of a CI user, and making outlandish claims that cannot be substantiated.
Keep telling yourself that, I have no doubt you believe it to be true. Well I guess the correlation between oral only and ci parents is higher than that of sign only and ci parents, when you are right, you are right!
Given the nature of the population, there is no such thing as "sign only."
I know, its called sarcasm.
You might want to practice those skills.
Burn ?? When did this thread become "That 70's Show" ? :roll: How lame.