It's hard to believe, but Drew is half way through Kindergarten! He's enjoyed making new friends this year, but mostly I think he enjoys being at the same school as his sister.
Drew's progress this year has been amazing. Besides a slight issue of talking too much during circle time and missing vital instructions ("Drew can get silly/talkative during group and work time..."), he has matured quite a bit this year and had glowing remarks on his progress report.
The most amazing piece of his report is his development of Language Arts skills. His teacher wrote, "Drew is growing so much as a reader and writer! He always amazes me that he is strong in language arts with his degree of hearing loss." Drew is currently working above grade level in most Language Arts skills, including rhyming, sight words, letter identification, and so on.
I'm really wishing I could have back all of the hours I spent worrying about weather or not he would ever learn to read and write.
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I just wanted to say thank you for this blog. Someone just told me about it yesterday, and I have so very much enjoyed reading about Drew's journey and relating to so many things you have written about. My son was born with bilateral profound hearing loss and had his first implant done at 12 months old in November - his next one is 2 weeks away! We also live in Columbus and I just find Drew's story to be so uplifting and encouraging!
I've been reading old posts on your blog for the past couple months.. ever since my daughter was diagnosed with severe hearing loss. Thank you so much for sharing your story. In my darkest days following Keira's diagnosis I felt a glimmer of hope after watching Drew's videos and reading your posts. We learned last week that her hearing loss was caused by Connexin 26 mutation and though I was sad about what that might mean for our possible future family I was also relieved because of information I found on your blog about how kids with Connexin tend to do with CIs and therapy. Thank you again.
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