That's the part I'm afraid about, Because my parents WANTS me in speech therapy and I don't want to be in speech. Even if i'm 18 years old. They would say: "My house, my rules." It makes me feel like moving out of this house but I can't because of my schedule with band and school with no job. I feel like i'm stuck in a place where I can't make my own decisions as an adult and that they're treating me as if i'm still a 5 year old. Makes me want to cry sometimes.
I don't really know all the details with the whole CI- speech therapy thing. My parents have told me a million times before that I MUST take speech therapy due to having cochlear implants to practice. I honestly think its stupid because I had the Nucleus 24 internal implant since I was about 8 years old (I think) and a hearing aid on my right ear for about 13 1/2 years up until last September where I got my 2nd cochlear implant, activated in october.
Usually I'll have speech therapy twice a week, probably about 20-40 minutes during the class. I have had study hall every year in my high school career due to having speech therapy. The reason why I have study hall is because since I have speech therapy, i don't miss any other important stuff in my classes. But even though I have study hall, I feel like I'm missing out on the fun stuff. I remember last year a history teacher would come down to the study hall classes to find people help with a "Jury" practice to help students what it would be like to be in a trial with jury watching you. I wanted to do that but I had to say "No, I have speech therapy."
Alot of my friends are wondering why I'm even in speech therapy, They keep telling me I talk really good. If people don't know that I'm in speech therapy and sees me leaving for speech, they ask me why i'm leaving and I have to say "Oh i have speech therapy." It's embarressing at times. I feel like somebody else in the school can use more of the speech therapy than me, I feel like I already have that benefit of being able to talk and use sign, and I want to have somebody else who really needs the speech therapy use that time to really work on it than me.
