Proud Parents: This Could Be You!
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After years of diligent hard work supporting your deaf or hard of hearing child’s listening and spoken language development, it is time to reflect and acknowledge all that you have done!
The Sound Steps Podcast culminates in this final twenty-fourth episode. Pradnya Madbhavi joins Shefali Shah, an LSL Cert. AVT professional as they reflect on their partnership, navigating the challenges of a child who was born with hearing loss and additional difficulties, celebrating in his having emerged as a young leader!
A surprise guest joins this episode to regale you with poignant insight and triumphs as he prepares for a career in Aerospace Engineering!
Thank you for being the heartbeat of The Sound Steps Podcast. Know that you are not alone. Celebrate each step forward!
Listen. Learn. Talk.
This is The Sound Steps Podcast.
🎧 Top Tips from Episode 21
- School supports those who support themselves.
- Creative school projects shape young minds and help them to flourish.
- Letting go as parent is critical to your child thriving and also to your relationship with your child.
- Developing self-advocacy skills is a reflection of children who have a strong sense of self-worth.
- Tempering ambition and redirecting it productively, is an integral part of parenting.
- Coping with your child’s hearing loss is an on-going process that is always evolving.
- 00:00 The Auditory-Verbal journey begins
- 01:10 90% of deaf or hard of hearing children are born to hearing parents
- 02:04 AVT facilitates age-appropriate development
- 02:23 Abundant choices open up through AVT
- 02:48 Early identification and the fitting of early and optimal amplification
- 03:57 Show notes, Top tips and Time Stamps
- 04:00 Introducing our guest: Pradnya Madbhavi
- 04:37 Creative school projects: The Evolution Between Architecture & Mathematics
- 06:37 Seeds of Peace Initiative: Dubai and Maine, USA
- 07:55 Planning a career in Aerospace Engineering
- 08:29 School opens up new opportunities
- 08:38 Leaving home
- 09:04 Letting go
- 10:19 Struggling with the fear of the unknown for one’s child
- 11:27 Dealing with uncertainty
- 12:02 Dealing with newness
- 12:42 Common interests make great icebreakers
- 13:24 Self Advocacy
- 15:46 Being comfortable in one’s own skin
- 16:15 Leadership opportunities at school
- 16:48 Free of limiting beliefs
- 18:00 How to negotiate with children
- 18:15 Coping with your child’s hearing loss
- 19:18 Realistic appraisal of one’s own skills and talents
- 19:38 Adjusting to change
- 20:22 Supporting one’s child’s passion
- 21:03 Tempering ambition
- 22:01 Purpose of life
- 22:35 Inspiring other women and colleagues
- 23:11 A Liberating experience!
- 24:10 The grit of this mother who has raised a child to overcome his additional difficulties
- 24:38 The joy of sharing one’s life journey with others to raise awareness
- 25:33 Sense of self and an inner strength
- 26:00 Acknowledging that one does falter
- 27:26 The joy of watching the lives of children unfold as they grow
- 27:54 Free to choose
- 28:10 Thank you for walking these Sound Steps with us through to this concluding episode
- 28:47 You are not alone
- 28:54 Keep celebrating each step forward
- 💬 Submit your question to the show: https://www.soundsteps.uk/podcast-ask-question/
- 👩⚕️ Face-to-face AVT with Shefali Shah (London): https://soundsteps.uk
- 🌐 Online AVT sessions available via AVT Direct: https://avtdirect.com
- 🎓 Train online as an LSL professional in AVT: https://learnavt.com
- 📧 Contact Shefali directly: shefalishah@soundsteps.uk