When raising a deaf child as well as a hearing child you come across some challenges. In a day, and I think I should count, I say "Wyatt" often. I know that he is trying to take all the sounds in and learn what he can, but at the same time, he knows his name and should respond to it. lol. With his brother, he sees Wyatt doing something and feeds off of him. Oh did I mention that Wyatt is also ADHD, must have slipped my mind. So on top of the hearing, we have an attention problem.
But I have gotten ahead of myself. When he was 6 months old he was fitted for hearing aids. We got them red, and for those who wear aids, we know that color matters, I don't know how many times I have set mine down and spent some time looking for them. With the aids, we were told that it was helping and he did pick up some words, but I'm not sure if it was due to the aids, or the sign language we started. All due to a long time family friend, Roxanne Skostad-Ditsch.
When he was 1 1/2, his audiologist made the suggestion we try another route, as well as did Roxanne. The next step was to see if he qualified for Cochlear Implants. That was a job. He had to be sedated twice for the CT scan, once here in the falls and once in the cities. That was very hard, I cried.
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