We went to Maui with grandma and grandpa for a week of beaches and snorkeling. Simon got his first aloha shirt, and played in the sand... he didn't seem to think much of it at first, but after a few days he began to enjoy digging and filling his bucket. Our weather was good - sunny most of the time and around 80 degrees, and then a little rain in the afternoons.
When we got home, Simon had another sedated BAER test. It confirmed our original test which showed that he is profoundly deaf in both ears. He then had another behavioral test, which also said the same thing. The good news is that all of those results have convinced the medical team at Children's hospital that he is a good candidate for Cochlear Implants, so we are now on our way towards getting one/them. We've selected the Cochlear Nucleus 5 - http://products.coch
learamericas.com/cochlear-implants - it's the latest and greatest, and hopefully will work really well for him.Simon and I also went to Deaf Camp over the weekend. We met a lot of families, and there were children with all sorts of degrees of hearing loss. They used a mixture of ASL, SEE, implants, and hearing aids to communicate, and it was great to see the kids all having a good time together. Simon did his first fishing, and we met another family from Seattle, with an older son. Very nice folks.
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