Reading

With the subject of reading being so important brought up, I thought of posting some pictures of Lotte and her big brother. (9 years)

She doesn't even realise how lucky she is with her brother and sister.

Those two are tight. All three of them, but Lotte and her brother have a special bond.
When she's angry, annoyed, upset, or just doesn't want to calm down, he will not be able to watch it and will comfort her...
And it will work. He's got so much patience that he'll be able to get her out of any dip.
Fortunately, it doesn't happen too often....

You should see them kissing each other (the 3 of them) good night. It's part of the ritual for going to bed.
Lotte will give the other two a kiss, then me and then her mother will go in with her and the'll sing a couple of songs.
The same songs that a year ago we would do with sign only!.....
It all goes so fast!!

Mapping

Update regarding Lotte,

Yesterday we - my wife and me - went to Oslo to get a new mapping for Lotte. The new processors were not yet available so that was postponed. Too high demand and not enough new processors. So we'll continue with the "old" ones.

I asked then to go up on the power. Actually, Lotte never has felt any discomfort so I told them to feel free to "turn up the volume".
Went quite a bit higher than before and one of the programmes was set for listning to music. That went fine. No discomfort at all. (I decided no to push them to go higher...)
Only when she had both CI's activated simultaniously she reacted strongly. More surprise than discomfort but the technician wanted to go just a little lower.

After the first mapping, which took 1-1/2 hours, we went out and it seemed that she talked more clearly, repeated words more accurately. Kind of strange after such a short time, so we regarded it as luck. But there were some other words that were more clearly. It's amazing.
On a test they did, copied from German - English tests she allready scored 32 out of 35. Not sure if it is MAIS or ACS-R or simular. (Does anyone have those tests available so I can try them?)

The second mapping went fine as well. No big changes. The "music" program was set as "loud" as the "speech" program. (It was set a bit lower initially)

She was great to travel with. Quite a change from 3 months ago when she had trouble sitting still. (Who can blame her, 50 minutes plane, 30 minutes train, 15 minutes taxi, quite a long time for a three-year old.)

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Here some where she's signing with my wife. Note the BTE's in little bags on the back. She has them on both sides.








Here's another view of the bags with BTE's on her schoulders...

(AllDeaf)