Rowan’s progress with his cochlear implant has been amazing. Over the past several weeks, we have been going to the audiologist for weekly visits. She tests Rowan’s hearing and increases the volume for three new programs that we use over the next week. Each program is progressively louder so that by the end of the week, he has progressed to a new level of hearing. He is now hearing at nearly the loudest level and should be hearing the entire speech banana. (It is amazing how our vocabulary has modified lately to incorporate our new vocabulary. A “speech banana” refers to the various speech sounds; when graphed according to pitch, the sounds look like a crescent shape and are thus referred to as the speech banana.)
Rowan is definitely alerting to sounds and starting to process them. In therapy, we have been working with airplanes (apparently they make the sound “ahhh”). One day Rowan saw and heard an airplane flying above. We alerted him to the sound and pointed to our ears. Yesterday we were outside and we heard an airplane. Rowan looked up in the air trying to see the airplane. When it flew into view, he pointed at it and pointed to his ear. It was so cool! We have also been using other words as well including milk. Tonight at dinner, Rowan had milk and Davin started complaining that he wanted milk too. Rowan gave his cup of milk to Davin! It totally could have been a coincidence but as much as I have been emphasizing the word lately, I think it is possible he understood Davin. Rowan is also alerting to his name and many other sounds as well. It is exciting to see his progress. It is fun to watch his face as he hears a new sound. He has a particular little look and I know a little light bulb is turning on. He is progressing in many other ways as well, changing quickly and completely into a little boy, leaving his baby-ness behind.
Rowan is definitely alerting to sounds and starting to process them. In therapy, we have been working with airplanes (apparently they make the sound “ahhh”). One day Rowan saw and heard an airplane flying above. We alerted him to the sound and pointed to our ears. Yesterday we were outside and we heard an airplane. Rowan looked up in the air trying to see the airplane. When it flew into view, he pointed at it and pointed to his ear. It was so cool! We have also been using other words as well including milk. Tonight at dinner, Rowan had milk and Davin started complaining that he wanted milk too. Rowan gave his cup of milk to Davin! It totally could have been a coincidence but as much as I have been emphasizing the word lately, I think it is possible he understood Davin. Rowan is also alerting to his name and many other sounds as well. It is exciting to see his progress. It is fun to watch his face as he hears a new sound. He has a particular little look and I know a little light bulb is turning on. He is progressing in many other ways as well, changing quickly and completely into a little boy, leaving his baby-ness behind.
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