Mass H&V

By: Ashley Cameron From IFSP (Individual Family Service Plan) to IEP (Individualized Education Plan), it’s a process in itself — never mind the choices of “where will my child access the curriculum best.” When my husband and I started thinking about the transition from Early Intervention (EI) to preschool at age three, my first thought was: how will I process sending my little guy to full-time preschool? Our son was born with bilateral sensorineural profound hearing. He received bilateral...

By: Claire Miller , CCC-SLP, NIC It’s fair to say that the parents of many deaf babies have already felt thrown for a loop. Over 90% of deaf babies are born to hearing parents, the vast majority have never even met a deaf person before. Nothing during pregnancy prepares a parent for unexpected news of any kind, let alone the low incidence diagnosis of deafness.  With that new diagnosis comes a revolving door of professionals – audiologists, speech-language pathologists (SLP), early...

When Teddy was born we landed in the NICU for feeding challenges where he did not "pass" his newborn hearing screen. At the time, I felt incredibly gaslit, as he would kick to the rhythm of music in utero and already was responding to voice and sound as a newborn. We chalked it up to likely being a fluke and began to navigate life as first time parents to a disabled baby. Eventually we had our follow up ABR testing and after two rounds we learned that Teddy has sloping hearing loss to varying...