Under the sun shade

Hearing Aid Beeping?

What does it mean when a hearing aid beeps? May be time to change the battery - battery might be dirty!
(This is not 'whistling' which usually means time to get a new ear mold.)

Be careful not to get hearing aids wet - that can cause them to get corroded - or dirty - if dirt gets on the battery - uh OH. If corrosion or dirt happens, find an old fashioned pencil typewriter eraser and gently rub the icky stuff off - keep batteries clean in order for them to work well.

Learning about Lobstering

Going Lobstering by Jerry Pallotta & Rob Bolster is a great book to read for learning about lobstering. After some reading, playing with toy lobsters and traps, seeing real live lobsters, we take a field trip to the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center to learn more!

Children discover how lobstermen catch lobsters. They also learn what else can be found in lobster traps!
In our summer Auditory-Verbal sessions, parents and children learn:

• the parts of a lobster


• what can escape when there is a hole in the trap


• what other creatures like to crawl in traps


• what floats on the surface of the water

• why some lobsters are thrown back in to the ocean
• to idenitfy lobsters in relation to other ocean animals
• what a buoy is for
• what the bottom of the ocean looks like
• and more

Parents learn vocabulary to enhance in other activities:

a pier, traps, buoys, surface, harbor, "to be on the look out", a light house, bait, location, attracted, escape, winch, pulley, 'know what to expect", entrance, gauge, eye socket, flap, rubber bands, cruncher claw (strong and dull), scissor claw ( sharp and quick), stun, gigantic, scavenger.

Listening to Mr. Watson in the summer

"I can listen to music on my i-pod!"

"I can see Evelyn Glennie on TV - on PBS!"

"I can play the piano for you, but please tune this piano?"

Mr. Watson said; "You are right, this piano has not been tuned for years."

Summer fun at AVCC

Summer is a great time for families from various towns to meet each other at the AVCC office. Kids who listen with hearing aids or cochlear implants get to meet other kids who listen with HAs and CIs. Moms get to chat. Dads get to attend A-V sessions.

One boy said; "This is the best day - 'cause I got to meet a girl who wears hearing aids just like me."

Moms can chat while kids get to know each other inbetween A-V parent guidance sessions.

peek a BOO!

Building with blocks is so much fun!

Mrs. Watson loves blocks!

Kids learn that Mrs. Watson has a first name

and why they can call her "Lea" in the summer

but not at school!

Moms keep chatting....

Time for backyard vocabulary.....

Parents listen to other kids.

Dads learn to enhance vocabulary in everyday fun activities.

It is important that moms and dads participate in the Auditory-Verbal experience.