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Be All You Can Be…Keep your eye on the Ball!
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The United States men National Soccer team just won the World Cup match against Algeria to advance to the next round! From almost being eliminated, an excellent throw from USA’s goalkeeper Tim Howard started the play for the goal scored by Landon Donovan in the 91st minute. The US is now top of their group...
Grace Chapel in Lexington , MA. Christian ministry for the Deaf
Grace Chapel in Lexington , Massachusetts has a Christian ministry for the Deaf. This ministry is very inclusive. When we found out our daughter-in-law, Amrit, was pregnant we switch church to Grace Chapel. Larry, Amrit and us believed it was very important to attend a church with a ministry for the Deaf, now that their family was expanding...
Building Your Deaf Child’s Self-Confidence
It is important to build your child’s self-confidence, and this applies to all children. One of the easiest ways to build your child’s self-confidence is to support his or her passion. For example if your child loves soccer, music, swimming, gymnastics or another activity, use this activity to build their...
A New Year, A New Decade, Time for New Efforts.
It is the first week of February 2010, January is all gone! I feel this year 2010, is a very special year! It is start of a new decade! So even if it is February it is not too late to make New Year’s resolutions or set goals.
If you recently found out your child is deaf, do...
The Deaf prefers open living areas for visual communication- Deaf Parenting.
Deaf people like their living areas to be open without walls so they can use American Sign Language (ASL) for visual communication. Instead of rooms such as kitchen, dining and living room being enclosed with walls, Deaf people prefer no or few walls so they can communicate via sign language across rooms.
In Larry, Amrit and...
American Sign Language, Deaf Culture and Deaf Services- “Deaf Parenting”
On Saturday, September 12th, 2009, The Massachusetts State Association of the Deaf (MSAD) and The Massachusetts Registry of Interpreter for the Deaf (MassRID) hosted the biennial state conference in Charlton, Massachusetts which is 15 miles southwest of Worcester, Massachusetts. More than 150 Deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people attended the state conference. They...
Discover How Our Deaf Child Grew Up Confident, Independent and Successful Beyond Our Imagination!
A Family’s Journey with a Deaf son.
Welcome to our family story, our life’s journey with our Deaf son. My husband, Alex, and I have 2 children, Larry and Charisma. Larry and his wife Amrit are both Deaf. Their beautiful daughter Raveena is hearing.
Our story details how we discovered Larry was Deaf, our decision to...
Deaf Socializing
Written by Larry Stephen. The last Sunday of the summer 2009 vacation, Raveena, Amrit, and I went to the well known dim sum restaurant named China Pearl in the Boston Chinatown. We invited five Deaf adults and one hearing child to spend the leisure time with us. We shared our delicious dim sum...
