A Year of Hearing

Well here we are one year later, one year of hearing, all be it only 10 weeks of bionic hearing, but in total it's been a year since we began this journey.


One year on, Isobel is a happy, smiley little girl who loves to chitter chat.

She now has a MLU (Mean Length Utterance) of 3.75, up from 2.5 in June. In a recent Speech Analysis, she came out at 3y 11m, just 1 year behind her chronological age. And her school report was pleasing with grades being appropriate for her grade level.


So all in all, we are feeling pretty good about Isobel's progress.


Currently, Isobel is excited about the upcoming festivities of Christmas, we are incorporating Christmas activities and vocabulary into our daily AVT sessions. These have become much more of a family affair with all of us working together. Even Estella likes to play the games and get involved. The funniest times of course, is when she wants to do the Ling Six tests. Isobel is always willing to be the teacher and heap on the praise when she gets it right.

During the last few weeks Isobel has really become a language sponge asking what is this? what is that? when is this..? She loves the calendar as a reference liking to mark important dates and then cross off the days until it arrives. One such event is our holiday to Hong Kong, she knows the date we are flying and will tell us everyday as she proudly puts a big X through the current day on the calendar. She has also learnt such things as birthdays, middle names, where she lives and favourite things, she enjoys talking and answering questions about these things.



You'll see what I mean. (Oh, do look out for the tiny hands that appear from nowhere!)