Warmest Regards, Mother of Deaf child

Dear Early Intervention Specialist,

I am so excited we met you! After our meeting I felt so relieved that there was a system in place to help us navigate this new territory with our newly identified deaf son. I must admit I was scared but after talking with you I feel so confident. I never imagined that there would be so many things for us to access for help. My husband and I are working on learning sign language and are curious about our options. I can't wait for our meeting next week!

Warmest regards,
Mother of deaf infant

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Dear parent of deaf infant,

It was great meeting you! It is so rare that parents wants to sign. We are really excited to work with you. I can't tell you how frustrated we get. So I am giving you some information to look over. We need to evaluate your son and get him on an IFSP. That just gives us an idea of where he is at so we can better service him.

Early Intervention Specialist

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Dear Early Intervention Specialist,

Thank you again! It is such a relief to have someone to talk with about this. Do we have to wait for the evaluation to get some help? I have been doing some reading and it tells me we have a child who has been without language for almost a year. We are tying our best but feel nervous. Again than you for your help.

Warmest regards,
Mother of deaf infant

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Dear parent of deaf infant,

Don't worry, once we get the IFSP we can help you.

Early Intervention Specialist



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Dear Early Intervention Specialist,

So we had that IFSP meeting, thanks! Can we get an ASL teacher to come to our home now? Our friends feel weird that they can't communicate and they are having a hard time trying to find a class.

Also when do we get to have a deaf adult come and show us the ropes?

Warmest,
Mother of deaf infant

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Mrs. Mother of deaf infant

Well you didn't have that included in your IFSP. We need to have a meeting for that.

Sincerely,

Early Intervention Specialist

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Early Intervention specialist,

Oh, sorry I didn't understand. I am so focused right now I didn't think to research the fine print. Can we schedule another appointment for that please?

Mother of Deaf infant.

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mrs. mother of deaf Infant,

I will be coming to visit you next week. We can discuss it then.

Sincerely,


EARLY INTERVENTION SPECIALIST
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Oh, OK, we need help now.......


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