Elle’s nursery and school journey
Sharon Hathway talks about her daughter Elle’s cochlear implant experience, in the second of a two-part diary series on the DeafBlog. Elle was born profoundly deaf in 2001.
Read part one here.
Part two
We were helped by Elle’s TOD who said that Elle would benefit from a school with a support unit, so we looked around where we lived, but there was nothing about.
A nearby town had two schools with units for deaf children. One used the natural oral method, and the other, total communication.
We now had several options to consider – mainstream with support coming in or mainstream with support built in.
After talking over what we should do for what seemed like forever, we enlisted the help of Elle’s TOD to make things clearer and pinpoint what hours Elle would roughly get in each setting.
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written by Joan McKechnie, BSc Hons, Audiology & Speech Pathology.
