So I have had this blog account for a while now...over a year, in fact. You will notice this is the first post. Why, you might ask? Because I just never got around to doing it! Things change, however, and I am going to try to keep up with this, especially as a way of keeping track of our journey with our youngest child, C.
We are a homeschooling family. The oldest child, Rocker Girl (RG for short!) is 14. The middle child, The Bug, will be 7 in January. C will be three in December. RG and Bug are doing fine with their schooling. C will present more of a challenge. We discovered a few months ago that he has a significant hearing loss. He is essentially deaf in his right ear and has a moderate loss in his left ear. He just got hearing aids, but as you can imagine, he does not like wearing them. We are planning on home educating him. Now I know that I will probably get some flack for this, but we feel it is truly the best option for our family. Does that mean that I have any idea how to educate an almost deaf person? Not really! It is made slightly more difficult by the fact that he does not talk due to the hearing loss. We are hoping that we can get him used to the aids and he will learn to speak. We are also going to learn sign language as a family as a back-up in case he ends up losing his hearing entirely or the aids just don't work. Since home schooling a child with a hearing loss is not as common, I figured I would use this a way of keeping track of our progress and maybe help others along the way.
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