All About Connecting with Your Whole Child – Episode 90 with Jen Walker copertina

All About Connecting with Your Whole Child – Episode 90 with Jen Walker

All About Connecting with Your Whole Child – Episode 90 with Jen Walker

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 Read the full transcript here Today Dr. Saperstein speaks with Jen Walker, mother to 7-year-old hard of hearing girl who was internationally adopted. The two discuss the desire to look for ways to create a supportive environment while seeing your whole child. Jen shares parallels with going through the international adoption process and when her daughter was identified as hard-of-hearing. Listen or read the transcript to hear Jen share how and where to look for resources for hard-of-hearing kids, the importance of letting your child have a life of their own, and always looking for ways to connect with them. This week on the All About Audiology podcast: 7:20 – Dealing with international adoption and hearing loss process at the same time, and finding similar situations and difficulties in both process 12:00 – Importance of intersectional identities and not “tagging” kids so that they can grow up as individuals of their own 16:00 – First reaction after finding out about your kid’s hearing loss and the first steps to look for resources 20:10 – Finding the Connect & Advocate program for the first time and getting involved 25:50 Advocating using the F-I-G Method to balance oversharing and practical advocating. 29:30 – The Connect & Advocate program lets you connect with your child, share with people going through similar experiences, and receive educational and medical advise For more resources and research visit: All About Audiology Website All About Audiology Facebook group All About Audiology Instagram And the Prodana pay-it-forward platform here: https://prodana.org/practioner/lilach-saperstein/audiology-counseling–dr–lilach-saperstein Links for Jen’s pages: @teamwalkergonegloball @80sgirlhtx https://teamwalkergoneglobal.wordpress.com Mentioned in this episode: Deaf Utopia Listen Next/Related Episodes Mallorie EvansErin Miller Transcript Dr. Lilach Saperstein: Welcome back to the All About Audiology podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Lilach Saperstein, and this is the show that is all about you and your journey. A lot of the audiology journey and having a child who is deaf or hard of hearing revolves around questions and not knowing where to get the answers. So that is what this show is all about. It is, you know, giving you a lot of information, a lot of resources, conversations with lots of different people for you to then go and say: Does this apply to me? If yes, excellent, you learn something that can help you on your way. So, on today’s episode, I’m so excited to talk to one of my favorite people who is going to introduce herself in a moment, but I just have to say that every single time we hop on a call together, every time that we have communicated and work together, it always makes me so joyous, so I’m really excited to introduce you all, to Jen Walther, welcome, Jen. Jen Walker: Thank you, that’s something to live up to there, no pressure, right? [Laughs] LS: You know, there’s just something that happens in the universe, when two people feel like they have a lot of the same values, and also really align with: I know something that you are looking to know more about, and that is very good for both sides of that equation. [Laughs] Because it gives, you know, part of the journey for the all about audiology, the parenting coaching side of things that I’m doing, the Connect and advocate members group, you know, Jen was one of the first people to join that and really make what I’m doing valid. [Laughs] So that’s really important for my journalism, thank you for that. Anyway, listen, people want to know who you are, why are you on the show today? So please give us an introduction, a little background. JW: Yeah, sure. Jen Walker, I live in Houston with my husband and my daughter, my daughter is hard of hearing or deaf hard of hearing. We kind of haven’t, I don’t know, aligned on the appropriate label, because she’s still only 7, so she’s just kind of growing into how she wants to be known as. So, in addition to her being deaf and hard of hearing, she was adopted internationally. So she came home to our house at about two and a half years old. And that was, yeah, five years ago. Wow. Time flies. [Laughs] LS: I think I have just one question on that, that people might wonder, did you have any idea or understanding of her hearing status or being hard of hearing before you met her? JW: So we are, I think, fairly clueless parents, maybe. Because if you go through the international adoption process you get some information about this child that you’re going to bring into your house and to your family. So the information that we got, we got a medical file and some videos and pictures, and there are doctors in the US that specialize in international adoption files. And so you have like 48 hours to get a doctor to review that file and get back to you from when you have it to make that kind of “yes, we’re all in” decision. So her file, said ...
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