Monday 7 April 2008

Australian hearing and signing playgroup

Another Australian Hearing appointment today confirmed that the grommets are no longer in effect and it looks like he might have more fluid in his right ear. We will have to decide whether we want them to be reinserted during his next operation.

He performed as expected on his hearing tests and new moulds were taken to try to resolve the increasing problems that we are having from feedback (squealing).

It was a long appointment and we arrived at Raphael's new signing playgroup with only 15 minutes left. We had a brash introduction to the teachers there and I was a little disappointed that there was a lot of talking happening there. I was hoping that it might be a speech-free playgroup to encourage Auslan development for the children but there seemed to be more English than Auslan. Maybe all of the administrative work necessitated using a language that most people were fluent with and maybe the quantity of signing will increase next time.

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