Links

My current favourite: lots of baby-friendly vocabulary, clear signing vocabulary videos, and lovely, inspiring films of families using BSL.
http://www.familysignlanguage.org.uk/ 


BSL lexicon
www.signbsl.com

Little ears

Today we took Ivy to her first appointment in the next stage of her hearing travels - the action stage, post diagnosis. We were lucky to get in this week to see the hearing aid audiologist, after someone else cancelled an appointment, which saved us from a three week wait, which at this stage feels like a long time. 

Herr Ringgenberg in Thun is a lovely paediatric audiologist who was quite taken with Ivy and let her play with the equipment, chatted with her, and took his time to make her feel as relaxed and comfortable as possible. He made little molds of her ears by pumping blue silicone putty into each ear, letting it set, and then popping them out. In two weeks Ivy will have a pair of the most powerful hearing aids available, and we will put them in and see if they do anything. 

We are getting on with making plans and learning BSL as much as we can without having started formal lessons yet. I'm waiting to hear back from Remark! , a Deaf owned and led consulting company in the UK -- they will be setting us up with Skype tutoring, we're looking at about five hours per week starting soon. 

BSL words of the day, in the meantime, were lemon (because my parents brought lemons from the tree in Carrum, and Ivy's favourite new toy is one of those lemons), teeth (because my dad thought he felt some teeth this morning, and healthy (because Dan is not healthy, he has the flu, and Ivy is healthy).