I may not hear but I can listen...

hi chrysz. i'm so sorry hear that your child has hearing problems. and i'm sorry i don't know anything about rubella. i hope everything goes well with your child. its curable right??

Hello chrysz, My cousin's twins also is a deaf and only when they were younger, they had hearing aid, I remember, it was only donated after they seek a help from a political figure in our City. There are many organizations who are helping kids in any way, I hope someone can give you any site since I just heard it on TV before and forgot about the org.

Sign language is a very good language to know. You never know when you might meet someone that you can't communicate with by speaking. My mother and I are currently learning it together :) Your daughter is beautiful and very lucky to have you.

I have no advice for you, but I'm really glad you're being proactive in planning for her future. I had a friend who's parents were in complete denial that he was deaf until he was about six. It took him years to catch up, but he manages just fine. He's tried out a bunch of things and they don't think he's a great candidate for the cochlear implant. He signs, reads lips, and has a 'normal' speaking voice from years of speech therapy. Your daughters are both beautiful.

I have a twin sister and her boy friend who is deaf. Me and my sister have hearing loss and we wear hearing aids. My sister and her boyfriend 3 yr old son is deaf. He started wearing hearing aids when he was 3 or 4 months old. They took him to the hearing clinic where they do hearing test and told them which hearing aids is best for his hearing loss. Right now he is behind in commucication becasue of his deafness. He is using sign language and picking up new signs. Do you know any sign language? My parents never knew me and my sister had a hearing loss till we were about 5 1/2 yrs old on the day we were at a nursery school and ran when we heard a loud bell rang. The person there mentioned to my mother that if she had us to get our ears checked. She told them the doctors said oh their ears are fine. We were almost was sent to a mental insitution. So she told my mother about the deaf school in Milton, Ontario (about 35 minutes from Toronto). so we went there and my parents finally found why we were acting that way. It was our hearing loss all a long and my parents never knew. Boy doctors back then are dumb and saying we are mentally????

I was born deaf, I also am called severe profound,bilateral deafness, means I am deaf in both ears. My deafness is herediatary from my dad, he only had deafness in 1 ear, but he had found out about it when he was 5 yrs old. But I was found to be deaf at age 1 yr old. My grandma knew something was wrong tried to tell my mom and dad,but she was right there was something wrong,just deaf. I wear 2 hearing aides by company named Phonak. It is recommended that the audiolgist pick the one right kind for your child if you buy just hearing aide, it not fit for her needs as you need audiologist and hearing tests and the audiogram can show how much lost it been for your child. I grew up Oral because back in 1980s ASL was banned since 1800s after they had met with Milan,Italy to decide what kind of education forum to use for teach deaf students. They believeed back in then that it was better deaf to speak and be like hearing people. But anyways now ASL is popular. Anyways, if you want learn about deaf history get the book called Deaf History. It is a good and long read. You can get ASL dvds everywhere esp www.harriscomm.com

HI,sorry to hear that your child can not hear right now,and maybe in the future; But glad to hear that you are trying to fix it and help her to live by herself/himself,sign language is a good way to experee his/her idea and communicate with people around her/him,good luck!