I'm Getting A Cochlear Implant!

"""Really well done. I love the set-up, analogies, and summary along with all the animations. You have taken a complex medical condition and solutions and simplified both in an easy-to-understand way."" -Mr. Brian Faldetta, Vice President Sales and Market Development, Advanced Bionics, Oregon ""The book has a fun way of explaining hearing and hearing loss to all audiences, while specifically intended for children. Even as an adult reading the story I learned a thing or two that I had never known before!"" -Morgan, a mom from New York ""I would like to use some of this book as part of the training that we provide schools. For example, the explanations of how we hear and what an audiogram is."" -Advisory Teacher of the Deaf, London, UK ""I truly enjoyed each part of this book! Thank you for the time you spent creating this book. It is excellent! ...Strong self-advocacy concepts throughout."" - Amanda, Itinerant Teacher for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing, North Carolina ""I'm Getting a Cochlear Implant is written with children and families in mind. It explains hearing loss, hearing devices, and how hearing works in a way that can be understood by anyone. The pictures are bright and joyful. This would be a perfect book for a teacher, audiologist, and parent to share with a child who may be recently diagnosed with a hearing loss or be a cochlear implant candidate."" -Lauren, Teacher of the Deaf/ Hard of Hearing, Colorado ""Lindsay Dain's book, I'm Getting a Cochlear Implant! makes learning about hearing loss and hearing devices fun and easy to understand. The images are cute and colorful, and the rhymes make it fun to read. I love the analogies Lindsey uses to make learning about hearing easier for children to grasp. The way you read it could easily be adjusted based on age/grade level. I think you could keep it simple with a younger, Pre-K or kindergarten student, but go more in depth with elementary school-aged kids, and teach about how to read an audiogram, anatomy and physiology of the ear, etc. Definitely recommend for teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing, special educators, gen ed teachers, audiologists, and for families!"" -Jen, Speech-Language Pathologist/ Deaf Educator, Illinois ""Dain created a story that will hopefully help not only deaf children understand cochlear implants better but make hearing loss less mysterious to others as well. I never before thought about WHY someone would be born deaf. This book helped me understand that, and to a degree how implants work. In addition to the melodic rhyming geared for children, there are details about the types of hearing loss, hearing devices, and more, that can be read with older children, or just a way to educate adults further as well. I also found it marvelous that Dain shared how every family is different, that some people choose to get devices to help them hear while others don't, and both are perfectly good options!"" -Jessica, Educator and Business Owner, Texas"