Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Movie coming soon

There is a movie coming on CBS later this month called "Sweet Nothings in My Ear". The story line is basically the mom is deaf, the husband hearing, and their son ends up losing his hearing. The dad(Jeff Bridges) is in favor of getting a CI while the mom (Marlee Matlin) is against it. This link is for a brief summary about it and then there is a place to post comments. There are a lot from people against CI's. From their posts, you can tell they obviously don't know much about them - just their prejudices. There is even one that said they cause brain damage. WHAT? So everyone who knows how great CI's are, please go and add your comments. Maybe if they hear from people who actually have experience with CI's or kids with CI's then they may realize the ignorance in some of their comments.

4 comments:

elizabeth embracing life said...

Thanks for posting this. I am going to that sight right now. Your blog was taken off a CI email loop.

leah said...

Ugh- there are so many people who don't understand CI's and who intentionally spread misinformation! We're not in CI territory with Nolan's level of loss, but it still makes me really irritated when I read those comments filled with ignorance or hate.

misha~sha-sha said...

Hey-I love your blog! I have a 7 year old daughter with CIs and she's doing great. Keep up your hard work.

leah said...

Oh, yeah- you've been tagged (see my blog)!