Chance had his second session of therapy yesterday. We started to work on putting an 's' at the end of a word to make it plural. By the end of therapy, Chance was adding the 's' by himself to some of the words. He even said strawberries with clear s's on both ends of the word. It is very exciting to hear Chance use the letter s and begin to realize that you can pluralize words. Before Chance would say "I want more," or "I want two", instead of I want two cookies. More and more Chance is able to hear you when you call his name, even if there is some background noise. And I have noticed that he hears me when I am talking about everyday things like "go clean your room." (he might have actually enjoyed not hearing that one, but no pain no gain).
One activity that we have found besides swimming that Chance can not participate in with the implant on is gymnastics. With all of the jumping, swinging and vaulting, the implant can not hold on. We'll have to try the body unit. We just found out that Cochlear (the brand of implant that Chance has) is working on making the implant stay better on little kids ears. That is nice to hear.
Chance's sister took his implant off and came and put it in my lap tonight. She used to take his hearing aids off too. When she first started doing it, she was just curious. Nobody but Chance had those and she would try to put them behind her own ears. Then she realized that it got a reaction and she could get at Chance by doing it. At least she put it in my lap. I must say this is a trend we do not want to continue though. Surely there are other ways to get your brother's attention.
I feel as if the implant is a part of the family now. When we go places, we include it in the head count. Do we have all of the kids? Do we have the implant? Where is Chance? Where is the implant? Sometimes when we have to go places first thing in the morning, or right after Chance has showered or gone swimming, we ask each other as we are driving down the driveway, "do we have Chance's ears?" Not many parents get to have that conversation as they pull away from the house.
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