The purpose of this blog is tell the story of our son's journey with a Cochlear Implant. Jack has been implanted since 01/17/04 and has recently gone bi-lateral (6/12/06). We are happy with the choices we have made for Jack and hope in our experiences we can help others in their journey.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
What a Great Year!!!
Jack is making such great strides in regards to his apraxia. His hearing if you can believe it is actually his strength, thanks to his implants.
I just had Jack's parent teacher conference and his is doing quite well, better than I expected. He is keeping up in math and his teacher says that his patterning is at the highest level they test so far this year. Yea!! He is quite the little artist too.
He is getting so much better with his speech and his teachers have noticed a big improvement from last year. He still has some word retrieval issues associated with his apraxia, but it is getting much better with training. No we see as things have been sorted out that he infact, does not have memory issues and it is all do to his filing cabinet (brain) and the things he wants to say have not been in the right place for him to grab. Finally, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Jack is still having some issues with speech errors, but those too are finally being sorted out and his is speaking wonderfully.
Finally, I can now sit back and relax a bit........Jack is progressing and progressing well. He is even keeping up in school!
The picture above is from our summer vacation. Ahh....summer....please come back!!!
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