The other day, I took the boys and Ali to get their haircut. While waiting there a gentleman comes up to me and says "huh, he has two cochlear implants" I said "wow, im surprised you know what they are" He went on to tell me he majored in sign language and has done a lot of work in the deaf community and stuff, I told him that was great and I plan on teaching Michael sign later on, since we cant right now with the AVT therapy. He then asked me, "well, why did you do that? You know, get him the implants?" I told him I felt it was the best desicion i had ever made and that I did not regret it at all. He then told me how he knew all these kids that had implants and as soon as they were old enough they took them off and decided to live deaf and only sign. I was getting irritated by this point and just told him that I really did not see my son doing that since he really enjoys hearing and i believe will also think we made the right choice for him. Really never thought I would meet one of those people but, oh well.
To each their own I guess....
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