Spoken Language Option is an Increasing Choice for Parents - The number of parents choosing the spoken language option for children with hearing loss has more than doubled in the last 10 years. Hearing Assistive Technologies - Cochlear implants, digital hearing aids, and other technologies allow children with hearing loss to hear and talk. And [...]
Continue Reading...“It shook our house where it woke me up,” said David Behm of Philo, 10 miles south of Champaign. It’s not like California.” Bonnie Lucas, a morning co-host at WHO-AM in Des Moines, said she was sitting in her office when she felt her chair move. She grabbed her desk, and then heard the ceiling [...]
Continue Reading...So I was awake when I felt the hairs on the back of my neck rise. That took me about a microsecond after realizing that it was an earthquake. Then I felt some actual movement or swaying in the house. Earthquakes must have a very low frequency a long distance away. There was a vibrato [...]
Continue Reading...Yes–I said earth.quake. It happened, apparently, about 120 miles away in Illinois and rated about 5.4 on the Richter scale. I’ve been watching the news since shortly after the quake stopped waiting to hear why my house was moving. It was rather surreal. And I know it’s going to sound ridiculously strange, but I wasn’t [...]
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