Chance can hear on the regular phone quite well..

Chance had a conversation on the phone with his dad today that made us quite excited. Chance has an option on his implant that has been working quite well for Chance when he uses the phone. Chance's dad has been in Germany and so when he called to talk to Chance, we were not sure how much of the conversation Chance would catch. But today as Chance's dad was talking to Chance about his trip(using vocabulary that is not standard for Chance like castle etc.) Chance caught most of the conversation! He even had responses like, "That is so cool!" when he was told that daddy had been inside a real castle. Then Chance told me that,"Daddy went inside a real castle!" When Chance handed the phone back to me, his dad said "Did you hear him on the phone?! He caught almost everything that I said and even responded!" This is exciting news since talking on the phone is a one of those things that really comes in handy.

Chance may have to practice whipping his implant off, changing the setting, and then finding the phone all before the phone stops ringing. It is exciting to realize that Chance can indeed talk on our regular phone since we did not think that was working for a while. Now we realize the implant setting makes all of the difference. Chance still does not catch everything over the phone. That may change with time as he adjusts even more to the implants and "learns" to listen over the phone. Or maybe he won't ever catch everything over the phone. Chance caught most of the conversation with his dad though and we are hopeful that talking over the phone is in Chance's future.

Chance has actually taken more of an interest when the phone rings now that he can both hear the phone on a regular basis and feels that he can talk on it. Imagine that:)