I blog quite a bit about my good friend, Jodi, who writes one of the most captivating blogs on hearing loss over at An American Mom in Tuscany. Jodi is a mom and advocate extraordinaire, not just for her deaf son, Jordan, but for families all over Italy and now, the entire world! One of her latest endeavors was to help teach pediatricians on how to deal with hearing loss by having pediatric courses offered on newborn hearing screening and deafness for the Tuscany region. True to Jodi’s “don’t take no for an answer” style, mission accomplished! Read her post on the subject here. She makes me so proud to be her friend.

While it may seem like Jodi would rest on her laurels for a bit, this insatiable woman has yet another huge project aimed to help deaf and hard of hearing children worldwide. She is part of GPOD, the Global Coalition of Parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children, a group formed at the Newborn Hearing Screening International Conference of 2008. Their goal is to improve systemic protocols and practices which encourage informed choice and the empowerment of families with a deaf child throughout the world. Help them by taking a ten minute survey online here.

Find out more about this new organization, the survey and what people are saying in Jodi’s post here. If you do nothing else online today, fill out the survey so that this:

Why didn’t ANYONE…ANYONE just tell me he was Deaf? Why did it take 9 months for my little boy to get amplified? Why couldn’t all these doctors, audiologists, nurses, and even social workers look me in the eye and tell me that my child is Deaf. Did I look like I couldn’t take the news? Is Deaf considered a dirty word among all these hearing loss professionals? WHY COULDN’T ANYONE HELP MY SON?

...doesn’t happen to another mother.

Those were Jodi’s own words, powerful and poignant, just like her. Again, the survey is online here.

Let me know what you think of the survey and Jodi in the Comments section below.

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