Ben's journey into a hearing world.

This past week we spent another long day at Doernbecher. Ben was assessed by Speech Pathologist and a Cognitive Specialist. Their goal was to determine a baseline for Ben's language skills before he receives his implant. We will go back in a year and they will measure Ben's progress.


They were most impressed with Ben's signing. He will sign about 6 signs consistently. After a few minutes of torture in his highchair, I was able to record a few of Ben's favorites.

Ben signs Daddy ALL THE TIME.

This boy is all about food. He signs 'milk' when he wants a drink and throughout the day whenever he wants anything. 'More' and 'cracker' are his newest signs. Here he does both.

'Thank you' must be the cutest sign of all. Instead of tapping his chin he dramatically smacks his face.

The real heart breaker is when I rock him back to sleep in the middle of the night and he groggily signs 'mommy' over and over. I'd get up twice for that one.