Hunting for Bears

Isobel is adapting to her cochlear implant beautifully. All the experts seem to be pretty impressed with how she's coping, what she can her and her responses to sounds.

We are striving forward with therapy in one respect, but have gone backwards in others. About 15 minutes a day, Isobel works without her hearing aid and just uses the implant.

We have gone back to our Ling 6 sounds and training her brain to hear them and distinguish between them. She is doing pretty well at it. She also has to distinguish between different songs that we've done from the beginning. She's also doing pretty well at that too.
She is back to not liking me to cover my mouth, as she is trying to cheat a bit while her brain get used to the new sounds and deciphering them. Knowing we have paced through this phase before gives me confidence to know that we'll get through it again.


Our current book for therapy is Michael Rosen's 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. It is full of lots of repetitive language, which is very good for listening to and echoing. Both girls are very much enjoying the book and get very drawn into it. It is so lovely to see Isobel getting so excited by stories and books.

 

 

We ended the evening by going on a bear hunt out the back of our apartment building. It was getting dark, so we took our torches and set of through the small wooded area looking for a bear. We used all the words we could remember as we trekked through our story.

 

Sadly, we didn't find a bear, but we did come across a big Apa instead!