We are Randy and Carri. Audrena, our third child, has bilateral profound hearing loss. Currently we are traveling the path of her hearing journey as she has received her cochlear implants, and we are continuing to expand her speech and language. We started this blog to keep family and friends updated on what is happening during Audrena's hearing journey, and we have hopes that someday it will help another family facing cochlear implant surgery.
October 31, 2012
The progress continues!
Audrena is now babbling like crazy. She is combining sounds in random patterns, such as "mawadadadamamwa." This is part of the natural process as babies learn to speak, and we are excited to see it happening! She also said "ball" a few nights ago while reaching for her ball. Monday, I was walking with her and saying, "Walk, walk, walk!" She repeated "walk." I'm not sure if I mentioned it before, but last week at USD's speech session, she was also saying "on" and "off." Audrena also does more of the animal sounds now and loves "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" She is also using "more" frequently now when she wants more of something. She also says "mwa" for kiss. Last night, she pulled out the toy house that I've talked about before. It has the light switch, and we use it to practice "turn the light on/off." She has now discovered the doorbell and continuously rings it, smiling like she is doing something really cool. I love all of this progress!
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