Happy 2nd Birthday Ava!
Ava's big family party will be on Sunday so I will post birthday photos then. In the meantime, Ava just completed her second PLS-4 testing. She is still performing above age level in both auditory comprehension and expressive communication. In fact, because of this, Ava technically would be discharged from auditory verbal therapy. However her therapist felt that because Ava is still so young she would benefit from another six months of AVT. I can't imagine Ava not having the AVT and despite how well she is doing I still don't feel ready for her to give it up yet. So I'm really glad that we are continuing with the weekly AVT sessions until January when she will graduate! (that will make 3 graduations for us - Ava's from AVT, my son's grade 8 and my daughter's grade 12). Ava also recently had soundbooth testing and is hearing at 20 db! She could detect whisper at 10db! I was so amazed and overjoyed at this because I could not detect many of the sounds in the booth (I wear hearing aids) and Ava responded really well to them. So proud of you Ava - you can hear better than mommy and you are profoundly deaf. Still can't get over how AMAZING CI's ARE. THANK YOU GOD!
She's adorable!! Glad she's doing so well with her CI's!
ReplyDeleteThat's AMAZING Amy!!! What a little rockstar you have on your hands! I know what you mean with the soundbooth, Aiden heard a sound that I didn't in his last test and my hearing is fine. I was floored! Way to go Ava and Happy Birthday sweet girl!!!
ReplyDeleteHi, I have only just very recently found your blog but I wanted to write and say thank you - you have given me so much hope for my 3 month old daughter.
ReplyDeleteWe just found out that she is severely hearing impaired (80 decibel hearing loss) and are now trying to plan our future. At the moment we live in Japan but it looks like we will be moving back to Australia (my home country) to start the ball rolling in regards to hearing aids/cochlear implants/speech therapy etc. It is very overwhelming at times but reading about your daughter's success has brought some hope to me. Thank you...