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Christmas in the air by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Here is the stocking cloud the kids found one morning on the way to school and I reminded them that we couldn't be buying anymore toys til after Christmas, and this was Santa' ... Read on »

University of Montevallo by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness For those students at the University of Montevallo, here he is (no matter what he said about his little sister tonight) blowing her toes after he's just painted them (this pic ... Read on »

So this is where we are now... by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness So after years of teaching these two to listen and then repeat exactly what we say... we are now at a place that they can listen and process, change and then repeat what info ... Read on »

Lack of Updates by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness The lack of updates is due to my crazy keyboard...takes me like 15 min to write a sentence or two, I will get a new one asap... I've been subbing a lot this week and thankful ... Read on »

The Presentation by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I'm going to have to keep this brief, my keyboard has went haywire...takes me a minute to type 1 sentence! The EI presentations went well, some therapists came up to me afterw ... Read on »

Reading the CMAs by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Gage was very excited the CMAs were coming on last night. His bed time is 8 so he got a full hour in before it was time to remove his processors and retire to his bed. His roo ... Read on »

Family Update by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Okay, so Gage's meds are still doing fabulous! He is doing fabulous! This week, again, he got a 100 in conduct w/another note of how great he's doing! This week his lowest gra ... Read on »

HEAR Center at the Park by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness My Goofy Childand my divalove those press on nailsWe had a great time yesterday when we FINALLY arrived (thank you Jenniferfor answering your cell phone!) after I got us lost. ... Read on »

November '09 Family Get-Together by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Sunday Nov. 8, was the Children's HEAR Center family "get together". Many families turned out for the gorgeous day at the park to swing... ...to participate in many ... Read on »

Stuff by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Gotta lot of stuff to update.... Brook got her new blue glasses Gage's new obsession? WRITING and ILLUSTRATING his own mini books You can check out his blog of all his lates ... Read on »

Something weird w/his cochlear implant? by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Back to the subject of ADHD and something else weird w/his cochlear implant... Gage got a 100 in conduct this week! That is just unheard of here at the Blakely home. His teac ... Read on »

.......um, I couldn't read in Kindergarten! by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Just so we're all clear, I could not read in Kindergarten. I learned my alphabet, I learned rules of the classroom, I learned to play with other children, I learned to color.. ... Read on »

HAY!!!! by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness The kids had so much fun yesterday climbing on the hay bales... Running in between the hay bales... even playing hide n seek with the hay bales... My husband and I watched ... Read on »

Weekend Update by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness The kids had a ball this weekend with all the activities. They enjoyed trick or treating and getting to wear their costumes (outside the house for a change-here they play dres ... Read on »

October Challenge...the results are in by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I'm posting my before picture as punishment. I did not meet my goal, nor did I even really try. I could have done so much better and I'm disappointed in myself...but I'll move ... Read on »

Fall Festival by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness This "thing" was really a person walking on all fours on stilts! Sorry all I had was the camera phone, but I was a little freaked out by this.poor quality sorry!Here ... Read on »

EI Conference 2009 by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I need to quickly mention that I'll be presenting this year at Alabama's Early Intervention Conference at the BJCC. I'll take part in the 1:30 session:Social interaction, join ... Read on »

...and he did it. by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness For anyone who has a child with ADHD, you can feel me on this one if they are now stable on medication(s). We didn't give Gage his meds over the weekend because he had the opp ... Read on »

Videos for Parents of the Newly Diagnosed by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Unfortunately not all of these are captioned...I apologize as they may be from long ago. I thought they may help some parents of newly diagnosed children with hearing loss. I' ... Read on »

Makin' Mama Sweat by Val B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Whew! Glad that is over! Taking this little beast princess to the dentist always makes me sweat. As I've said before I do keep deodorant in the car so I can reapply after our ... Read on »

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