Jennifer, Clarissa and Me
Dave SindreyToday I was able to attend a free seminar put on by Advanced Bionics through the University of Iowa Hospitals Otolarangology Dept. It was Awesome!! Dave Sindrey was the speaker! He is the guy that does the Listening Room on AB's website! Wow! He was so knowledgable and kind and super helpful.
We got to hear lots about Building Listening & Language Skills for pre-school and school-age children with hearing losses. And we learned many new activities that can help our children learn new words, sounds, and so much more! Most of these activities and projects can be found and printed for free from his site the Listening Room or a link from there. Wish I understood how to link it in this post for you, but I don't, so you'll just have to check out my link list.
Here are just a couple of photos from our day. I went with my friend Clarissa, Evan's mom and we met up with our new friend Jennifer, Landri's mom. At our location, we were the only parents present. The rest of the group was filled with professionals. We were bummed by this! We were hoping to really connect with some moms and build supportive relationships from the event. Never the less, it was a great seminar.
Clarissa and I have created a parent-networking group for our surrounding area, which will span out as far as need be. :) We've called it "COMMON GROUND". It is a group of parents and families that are going through struggles with their children for one reason or another that are looking for friends to talk to in their area. And not only that, but someone who understands what trials they are experiencing. Maybe someday we'll have a website for this new adventure of ours!
We decided to form this group due to the fact that so many of our specialists and therapists were the same, yet due to privacy laws were unable to tell us of each other and our many similarities. God had other plans that included bypassing them, and getting straight to us!!!
We want to help connect families in a similar way, through those people that couldn't put us together before. We are empowering them with our personal contact info so that they can pass it on to those who need someone to talk to! We are excited to see its outcome!
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