Ariana was not deaf. She had a hearing loss, but still had residual hearing. She ended up being an excellent hearing aid user. She never had that deaf sound to her voice. Her intonation was and is still beautiful. You have got to do what is best for "your child". No two children are alike. Maybe it helped that she was not born with a hearing loss. She heard while she was in my womb, she heard for the first almost 5 months of her life before getting sick, and who's to say how long it was after the meningitis that she may have heard. It may have slowly gotten worse. Studies do show though that once you have meningitis, it pretty much wipes your hearing out right then. How we were spared the left ear from being totally wiped out was a miracle!
We decided if we wanted her to be able to communicate with the whole world around her, we would have to engross ourselves in helping her with her speech and language wholeheartedly. We had already wasted so much valuable time. The early years are so very crucial. We had her enrolled already into private speech therapy in addition to being in a early intervention program. We had a private speech therapist that we loved at a very small privately owned speech and hearing clinic. We didn't start out in AV due to I had another child when Ariana was 2 1/2 and I wouldn't be able to take part in all the sessions. All my family lived in Montgomery. We chose the auditory oral route, but she has been in AV at Children's Hear Center for almost 3 years now.
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