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My mom made me ugly cry tonight.
Ruby's services coordinator and deaf ed teacher gave us some info on sign language classes. One was an intensive, week-long, all-day class and the other was basic baby signs in two short evening sessions. We were just planning on doing the latter unless we got confirmation at her ABR that she was, in fact, also deaf in her right ear. We still don't know for sure her hearing ability, but I thought I'd go ahead and take the more intensive class since everyone's in agreement that signing will really benefit Ruby.
It's pretty pricey, but there are scholarships available. Unfortunately, since I waited to apply until after the ABR, I missed the deadline. I wrote an email to the coordinator to see if there was any way they could make an exception. In the meantime, I decided I better line up childcare just in case I can go. I wanted to be sure my mom could do one day if it worked out. My mom said to sign up regardless - that she was going to pay for it if I didn't get the scholarship. She said it was a small price to pay for an investment in Ryby's future and that she knew how important it was to me.
I can't even express how much I love my mom.
Re: My mom made me ugly cry tonight.
Your mom rocks!
And as they say, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
((Hugs.))
Sara
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Your mom is totally awesome - that is so wonderful! If you need any other childcare help I am totally happy to fill in the gaps.
So that we know for learning ourselves, are you doing ASK or SEE?
Thanks, Sarah! Be careful - we may have to take you up on that.
I'm hoping MIL can do a day or two, Jill's going to take two days, my mom is doing one and I think my friend Sara can do one. I feel bad because it's all day (9-3, I think), so it's a lot to ask, but it's a great opportunity to sort-of totally immerse myself in a short period of time.
We'll probably eventually do ASL, but we're starting with SEE since it's directly aligned with the English language and will be more beneficial when it comes to learning to read/write. ASL is more of a "shorthand" that we'll all likely use day-to-day, but it's been recommended we learn/use SEE first.
R's deaf ed teacher is meeting us at her test tomorrow and we'll be setting up a time for her to teach our family/friends some basic signs. I'll let you know when we have date/time.
And duh Sarah, typo - I meant ASL of course.
Please take me up on the offer, I'd love to!
So would you/the teacher recommend we learn ASL, in that case? Or would you want us to just know basic signs from the deaf ed teacher? We had been planning on learning more than just basics....we can talk offline about this, of course. Ha.
love is for every her, love is for every him, love is for everyone