Cloth Where?

Mary just quite clearly signed "cloth where?" For those of you who havev not met Mary in person cloth is a stinky muslin that she goes everywhere with. Ealry on we realised this would be her comfort and so wanted a sign for cloth. The sign we use is like hug but holding your arms together to the left side. And wiggle your body. Well Mary added that bit in.

As to other signs well we have been busy. Camping and hospital.

Mary readily understood and signed tent. She loved camping. At the meal on our last night she was tired but signing tent. Clever girl.

While out with Daddy and the dog at camping she said "come".

We are no longer in receipt of language aide facility. This is both good and bad. MAry knows too much but is not letting on and having the laddy come once a week to teach her sign was a good thing. Oh well. I have completed my BSL Level 1 and Daddy is due to start his course in September. Mary will sign when she is ready.

One sign she has learnt really quickly is cheese triangle (make a triangle with your thumbs and forefingers; a homemade sign). She also learnt fridge as she has worked out that she can reach into the fridge to get out her own triangle using her little chair. Monkey Miss. Reinforcing the thought that she will learn and do when it suits her. Causign much frustration for herr porr speech and language therapist.

the S&L lady does say though for a year post implant Mary is making some wonderful babble noises. She also listens more.

One that note; the 30th July 2009 was her one year post switch on programming session. We have the Advanced Bionics processor and implant. She recieveed the T-mic attachment and is now a big girl wiht her processors not requiring a huggy. She also heard 500 Hz at 40 Db, 1000 Hz at 45 Db and 2 kHz at 50 Db. She can thus hear most of the speech sounds. She does here "s" and "sh" when spoken. So we are definitely making progress all round.

That is all I can think of for now. We are now waiting on her highness to do her thing. We may be waiting a while as she is happy with who she is. And that is a good thing.