Larry Stephen, a Northern Essex professor who was born deaf, teaches at North Andover High three days a week.

See related newspaper article.

Bristol Community College

BBC offers an Associate in Arts in Deaf Studies.  The Deaf studies program explores the language, culture, history and contemporary issues of Deaf people.  Fundamental to the program are both competency in American Sign Language and a desire to work with Deaf people and not for them.  This program prepares students, both deaf and hearing, who are interested in a professional career working with Deaf, hard-of-hearing or late-deafened persons to transfer to a four-year college or university in the field of their choice.

Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill MA

NECC offer 2 associate degrees in Arts in the Deaf Studies program.  One in ASL and the other in Sign Language Interpreter.

ASL option provides with an understanding of ASL and Deaf Culture.  Graduates will be able to both continue their education at other insitutions of higher learning and to gain employment in group homes, and other facilities providing services for Deaf people as the program provides for career exploration within the Deaf community.

The Sign Language Interpreter option provides students with a broad educational experience based on a balance and diversity of general education, ASL and interpreting courses. This associate degree provides for career exploration within the Deaf community and the basic academic preparation for possible transfer to bachelor degree programs.

NECC also offers a certificate in ASL in the Deaf Studies program.  This program provides students with an opportunity to develop an understanding of the profession of interpreting for Deaf and hearing individuals and the knowledge, attitude and skills necessary to function as entry-level professional interpreters.  Also provides students with career exploration within the Deaf community.

Quinsigamind Community College, Worcester MA.

QCC within it’s General Studies program offers a Deaf Studies associate degree.  This Deaf Studies offers students the opportunity to explore the role and function of an interpreter for Deaf and hard of hearing individuals.  Graduates will be provided with a basis for continuing on to a four year college in the area of Deaf Studies or in an Interpreter Training Program.

If you are a father of a special needs child and reading this blog, hooray!  We are so happy that you are involved in your child’s life!  We really, really want to congratulate you and encourage you.

If you are a mother reading this blog, and you will like your husband or spouse to become more involved with sharing in the responsibility and joys of raising your special needs child, please share this information with him!

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Today we want to encourage both parents to stay involved and really understand that you have a specific role in your child’s education and life.  It is sad but true that about 80% of the families with children with significant special needs get divorced. This makes it very difficult for the children as well as the families.  We know there is a lot of stress and extra efforts, with having a special needs child, but the need to work together for the child is critical.  We both think that if you have the strength and the resources, do whatever it takes to stay together or get together, put your differences aside and support your child.  Your child will benefit tremendously from having both parents, fathers and mothers, involved.  Don’t get divorced, that is the best.  And in the end, you as parents will reap the benefits.

What can parents do?  Parents need to be there to support their kids.  In my opinion when you get that news it is a shocker.  But you have to get over the news and set your priorities.  Your child’s future and education takes highest priority.  The way I look at it, that’s the cards that life dealt you, and you have to work with it.  Do not look at it as an extra burden.  However, look at it as your life experience and do what needs to be done so that your child receives the best.  You need to be there to support your children.

For example: you can carry over the lessons of the day, by reviewing the work your child did in school.  Discuss and see what questions they have and see what you can do to add to that work.  This is very important because you help the child and yourself.  Larry for example, was extremely good in science and math.  He just picked up the math.  But he had challenges with reading, because English was a second language and American Sign Language (ASL) was his first language.  So when you are involved you see where your child needs the extra help.  And you can always work that into the IEP with the Special Needs Department and the school.

You want to make it a rule of thumb to help your child with their homework.  I know we did this with Larry and Charisma.  At one point Larry said I am independent and I can do this on my own.  If I need help I will come to you.  He drew the line and said you do not have to sit with me every evening.  That was really good to see him reach that stage in his development.

You can help your child with the big picture.  And what I mean by that is have conversations with them.  It does not have to be structured conversations, and it can be casual around the house or in the yard.  Talk about the importance of school and give examples of successful people to your kids, the importance of teachers and their peers.  For me my mom did that with me all the time and that got ingrained in me.  I always had mentors or people I wanted to emulate.  Talk about the importance of family, church, if you attend church, and current events.  It can be local, regional or international.  Just try and communicate.  It creates a good bond and your child will trust you more and can confide in you.

Parents need to help foster friendships with other kids. The kids with disabilities have a harder time; they don’t live as close to their class mates and friends.  Most likely they live in one town and goes to school in another town.  For example, Larry lived in Marlboro and went to school in Framingham.  All his friends were from school, so he had no friends in our neighborhood.  His friends lived across town or in adjoining towns.  So I think it’s up to you as parents to arrange play times etc.  You can take turns with other parents for arranging activities.

You can tell them they’re doing a good job.  Complement them when they do a good job.  Also, let them know of areas for improvement.  It really goes a long way. This really goes a long way because your children look up to you.  And the more you are involved they just blossom.  So the parents’ involvement is so important

This is a special call to fathers.  We want to encourage you to share the responsibilities of supporting you child.  It’s not just getting your son or daughter to a soccer game on Saturday or Sunday.  It’s the practices, the homework, the preparation, and a lot of “atta boys and atta girls”.  Let them see that you really enjoy being with them.

You may be thinking, why should we do this?  We want to tell you that you will get the rewards from being involved.  So we want to encourage you and give you hope.  If both parents, fathers and mothers, are involved most likely your child is going to become more confident, have higher self-esteem, do better at school work, perform better at and enjoy extracurricular activities more, be more adjusted, and have a better future.

The more time and efforts you put in now, your child will become more independent as a teenager and an adult.  And the more independent your special needs child become, it will be easier for you to let go.  Just yesterday a parent was asking how they can go on vacation by themselves without their deaf child.  It starts from day one.  You have to encourage independence and support your child.  As parents of special needs children we shoulder the responsibility of their care and this play a major role in our plans, for example, where we live and work etc.  The more independent your child becomes, your responsibility becomes less.  Think about this, it means you worry less!  This is a really big reward!

So we want to encourage both parents, fathers and mothers, to team up to ensure that your child become the best he or she can be.  You both can share the responsibilities to support your child. Think about the brilliant, out of the box ideas both of you can think about when you put your heads together.  We found that once you make it a priority you get the energy to do it.  We are not saying it is easy.  Yes, it is a lot more effort, but if you both make it a priority and share the responsibility, it is doable!

Parents it is all about mindset.  Look at the situation as a joy, this is my child and I will do the best.  The rewards are unimaginable just listen to our family story.

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We will like to share our experience with our Deaf son Larry.  Larry loved sports from a toddler; he would sit or lie down in front of the TV and just watch sports, all sports.  Larry was a very active toddler, so we noticed what kept him interested for an extended period.  While Larry attended Kendall Demonstration Elementary School on Gallaudet University campus he played basketball and some soccer.  But Larry always had surplus energy.

When we moved to Massachusetts, Larry was 10 years old.  Larry started playing soccer; formally I should say, in the town league.   Just about that time Larry started reading soccer magazines for children around his age.  Which also helped in improving his reading skills.   So one day Larry put Raz and I to sit down and he outlined his plan for his future with soccer.  He wanted to play soccer for the Marlboro town league, the Massachusetts club level, the Olympics and World Cup Soccer internationally.  Raz and I said, yes we will support him, even though we did not know how he was going to do all this.  So Larry led and we supported.   Larry achieved all his soccer goals except playing at the World Cup Soccer level.  Larry played at the highest club level in Massachusetts for one of the most elite clubs, at California State University in Northridge and the USA’s Men’s Deaf Soccer Olympic Team.  You can read our story for complete details on how Larry accomplished his goals.

Larry’s experience with soccer built his self-confidence tremendously.  It was something we never dreamed about.  We just saw his confidence grow and explode.  Which made him a really strong person.  This really helped with peer pressure.  Larry saved his allowance to purchase his favorite professional soccer teams jerseys and he wore them frequently to school.  He was serious about soccer, his health, and eating right, that is, salads, fruits and drinking water.  So he did not get involved in such activities as smoking cigarettes in High School, which I think was such a big plus for us.  It really was a blessing in disguise.

While playing soccer at the club level, Larry was fortunate to have a coach that valued Larry’s passion, skills, enthusiasm, and dedication to the game and deafness was not an issue.  Larry was playing soccer at the highest club level for the elite Boston Eagles Club.  Larry loved and respected this coach.  He valued the coach’s advice on non-sports topics such as education.  The coach advised him that education came first and soccer second. You can listen to our podcast with this coach at http://www.raisingdeafchildrenpodcast.com/brian-ainscough-larrys-favorite-soccer-coach

I remember Brian said to us to allow him to go wherever he wanted to go to school.  The reason being if he changed his major and he loved the school he will stay there and continue his education.  If he has to change schools it will delay his graduation.  Brian had experience with other university students and even his own experience coming from abroad.  He told Larry that he shared the same passion for soccer, but your education is important and nobody can take that away from you.  For example, if you have an injury in sports it can affect you playing professionally. Brian said he wished he had paid more attention to his education.

He came to school in the states from Ireland and his first priority was playing division I soccer and eventually pro.  He told Larry that he had no one to advise him because his parents were in Ireland.  He came to the USA on his own.  As parents we want to be there for our kids as much as possible.

The amazing thing is whatever your child’s passion, in addition to listening to you, they would listen to the coach or that leader.  And sometimes they even listen to them more or are more receptive to what they are saying.  Because they think you as a parent is preaching to them.  The coach is like another ally, so that is a good thing.

As parents we all want confident children!  When you build your son or daughter’s self-confidence as a child, it pays off when they become a teenager.  It will help them with peer pressure, with school and with their goals.  When you build your son and daughter’s self-confidence as a teenager, it pays off when they become adults.  When they are in university by themselves or when they have moved out.  This will carry through with them the rest of their lives.  So we invite you today to focus on building your child’s self-confidence by supporting their passion!  Usually children have more than one passion.  Larry’s second passion was social studies and geography, which was completely different from soccer. That was his undergrad major.  That helped him with his reading and communication skills.  This is a gift you can give your child that will be with them forever.  Nobody can take their self confidence away from them.  It is never too late to start!

We talk about Larry’s self confidence and his passion in sports and soccer.  But I want parents and people to know that it did not only come out on the soccer field, with this coach and the players.  It came out in all areas of his life.  When he was choosing a school he was confident enough to say I want to go to this school all the way on the west coast in California.  He did his masters, he traveled, he played soccer abroad, he founded I think 3-4 groups and he is on the Board of Directors at Deaf Inc.  He is involved in International Committees for the Deaf.  So you know he is a leader in the Deaf community.  We saw the confidence on the soccer field and his love for soccer, but now it just blossomed in all different areas of his life.  And that is what you have to look at, the benefits to your children.

All this advice is for children in general.  The only additional thing you need to do if you have a Deaf child is to be able to communicate with them. And that is by learning ASL, American Sign Language.

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Building your child’s self confidence is very important to their future.  Make sure you give them your full support.

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If you recently found out your child is deaf, do not despair!  Welcome to an interesting life, one of challenges and rewards!   This may be difficult to believe now but it is true.  Here are a couple of tips on what you can get started on:

#1: Meet Deaf adults!  This will ease your despair and show you there is hope and your child has a bright future.  We remember when we went to the Summer Learning Vacation at Gallaudet University .  We met so much Deaf professionals and parents that we started and continued communicating with.

#2: One of the goals you should be, start learning sign language as soon as possible!  You need to communicate with your child as much as possible, just the same as you would communicate with your hearing child.

#3: Treat your child as normal as possible.  Your child is normal; you just need to use a different method of communication!

So no more despair, let’s get started on an interesting and rewarding journey.

If you child is less than 10 years old.  Here are a couple of tips that you use:

#1: Continue that communication.  Learn more signs, preferablyAmerican Sign Language.  As your child gets older, their interest changes, you need to be able to communicate on these new topics.

#2: Make sure you are proactively doing your best to nurture your child’s interest in reading.  We have a podcast on reading at www.raisingdeafchildrenpodcast.

#3: What is your child’s passion?   Is it soccer, basketball, gymnastics or swimming?  Support your child with his or her passion, this build self-confidence.  We have a separate podcast with Brian Ainscough-Larry’s favorite soccer coach.  You can see Larry’s passion and the respect and support he got from this coach.

So 2010 is a time to renew your efforts with making sure your child gets all they deserve.

If your child is a teenager, here are some tips:

#1:  Well all your previous communication efforts should be paying off now!  You can have in-depth conversations with your child.  Keep onlearning American Sign Language; I was happy we continued learning American Sign Language while Larry was a teenager. Communication is so important in those teenage years and believe me teens use different terms friends.  Teens start getting impatient if you cannot communicate fluently.

#2: Proactively monitor your child’s education.  Make sure adequate progress is being made and start discussing with your child what they will like to do post high school.  It is a good time to have their school start introducing your child’s class to Deaf professionals.

#3: Fathers get involved!  All children need guidance from both parents.  I remember parents at TLC will ask me how Larry and I had such a great relationship.  I told them it was communication.  I did a podcast entitled “I will Not Trade Him For The World”.  Please, fathers, do not abandon your Deaf child, it can be the best thing that happened to you.

It is never too late to start!

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In this article, I will discuss:

What is an IEP

Give tips for having an effective IEP that meets your child’s educational needs

An IEP is a document that details the special needs services for special needs students.  The IEP includes any modifications that are required in the classroom and any additional special programs or services.  In the USA an IEP is mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004).  The IEP will address your child’s educational needs, and contain specific, measurable short term and annual goals for each of those needs.

This written statement is developed by your child’s teachers, and is reviewed and agreed to by your child’s special needs education funding organization and you, the parents.  The IEP describes the goals the team sets for your child during the school year, as well as any special support needed to help your child achieve his or her educational goals.

In our case with our deaf son, Larry, we lived in Marlboro, MA and Larry attended school at The Learning Center for Deaf Children in Framingham, MA.  The town of Marlboro funded the cost of his education.  So we dealt with the special needs education supervisor in Marlboro and Larry’s teachers in Framingham.

The IEP meeting is usually attended by the child’s classroom teacher, the child’s department supervisor, the funding special needs education supervisor and the parents.

The IEP document can be very daunting lots of pages with a lot of official sounding documentation.

Here are tips based on our experience on ensuring your child has an effective IEP that meets his or her educational needs:

Tip#1: You as parents need to be proactive and take an active role in developing the goals for your child’s IEP.  You need to have regular interactions with your child’s teachers and school supervisors to understand what your child is being taught, how your child is progressing and what your child will be taught next.  This will help you in 2 ways: firstly you will be able to understand what is being stated in your child’s IEP and you can make sure which educational needs will receive the most attention.  Secondly your child’s teacher will realize that you are interested in your child’s education and they will make extra efforts on behalf of your child.  I firmly believe that it is always good to set high expectations for the people working with your child.  For more details and examples on setting high expectations please see our story at www.deafparenting.com.

Tip#2: Usually your child’s special needs education funding organization will have meetings a few times a year to discuss their plans etc.  Attend as many of these meetings as possible and develop a relationship with the supervisor for your child’s special needs education.  This relationship will allow you to discuss and make requests suited to your child’s educational requirements.

Tip#3: We requested a copy of Larry’s IEP 2 days before the IEP meeting so my wife and I could review the IEP.  Your child’s teacher is usually very busy developing IEPs so you need to give the teacher early notice that you need the IEP for review.  Having a relationship with your child’s teacher and the funding special education supervisor will really help here because you will already know what level of education your child is at and what is the next level of education and services to be addressed in the IEP.

Tip#4: You need to remember that you as parents can bring with you to the IEP meeting others involved with your child that you feel are important for the IEP team to hear, such as, your child’s psychologist or tutor.  I would recommend keeping surprises for the IEP team to a minimum and again your working relationship with your child’s education team should help you resolve issues and have agreements on your child’s educational needs before the IEP meeting.

Tip#5: Parents should remember that IEPs can be updated any time during the year.  For Larry, he was very good at mathematics and we had the IEP amended during the school year to provide Mathematics tutoring during the summer for the next level of Mathematics.  Since we had a good relationship with our town’s special needs education supervisor, this was easily done and Larry had his Mathematics teacher as a tutor during the summer.

Tip#6: Here are a couple of things I wished we would have done differently.  In middle school Larry was struggling with Reading and English.  He had a literature class where the reading material was Shakespeare.  We knew he was struggling with Reading and English and this class was frustrating him a lot.  We should have had a discussion with this teacher and the Middle School supervisor and find a solution that met Larry’s needs and have his IEP amended.  In addition, we should have requested a tutor for Reading and English where the tutoring was done in American Sign Language

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I have looked at the list of workshops and these workshops look very interesting:

Academic ASL (Teaching), ASL Language Mentoring (Teaching), Conceptually Correct Semantics in ASL (Standards), Assessment in ASL Learning (Assessment), Classifiers with Mouth Morphemes (Interpreting), Hands-on ASL Activities (Teaching), Classifiers: Impact on Language Use (Teaching), ASL Emancipation for Deaf Learners (Deaf Studies).

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There are 2 campuses.  The main campus is in Framingham.  The other campus is in Randolph.  The Framingham campus has the following programs:

Parent-infant for ages 0 to 3

Preschool for ages 3 to 4

Kindergarten for age 5

Lower elementary school for ages 6 to 7

Upper elementary school for ages 8 to 12

Middle school for ages 11 to 14

High school

The Randolph campus has a parent-infant program for ages 0 to 3

The Walden School is a program of The Learning Center for the Deaf.  The Walden School is located on the Framingham campus.  The Walden School provides comprehensive treatment and educational services for Deaf Children and adolescents between the ages of 8 and 21 years.  Walden School students are challenged by severe social and educational difficulties.

Contact information:

Framingham campus:

848 Central Street

Framingham, MA 01701

508-879-5110 (Voice/TTY)

508-875-9203 (Fax)

Randolph campus:

30 Seton Way

Randolph, MA 02368

781-963-5110 (Voice/TTY)

781-963-0114 (Fax)

Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

This school serves students from birth to 22 years of age.  The programs consist of:

Parent-infant for ages 0 to 3

Early childhood pre-school

Kindergarten

Elementary school for ages 6 to 12

Secondary school consisting of middle and high schools.

Contact information:

40 Armington Street

Allston, MA 02134

617-635-8534 (Voice)

617-635-6379 (Fax)

Beverly School for the Deaf and Children’s Center for Communication

This school serves students from 3 to 22 years of age.  The children’s center for communication is located on the same campus.  The programs consist of:

parent infant/toddler program for ages 0 to 3, preschool, elementary, middle and high schools.

Contact information:

6 Echo Avenue

Beverly, MA 01915

866-320-3233 (VP)

978-927-7070 (V)

978-927-7200 (TTY)

978-927-6535 (Fax)

Clarke School for the Deaf – Center for Oral Education

There are 2 campuses, one in Northampton and the other Clarke-East which is located in Canton.  Clarke-East serves students from birth to 7 year of age. Clarke Northampton school programs consist of:

Early childhood for ages 0 to 3

Pre-school for ages 3 to 5

Lower elementary school

Middle school

Contact information:

Clarke Northampton

47 Round Hill Road

Northampton, MA 01060

413-584-3450 (Voice/TTY)

413-586-6654 (Fax)

Clarke-East

1 Whitman Road

Canton, MA 02021

781-821-4399 (Voice/TTY)

The EDCO Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

This is a mainstream program for grades 6 to 12 and is housed at 2 locations.  The middle school program is at the Day Middle School.  The high school program is at Newton North High School.  Enrollment is open to eligible students from throughout the state of Massachusetts.

Contact information:

EDCO High School Program

Newton North High School

360 Lowell Avenue

Newton MA, 02460

EDCO Middle School Program

F.A. Day Middle School

21 Minot Place

Newton MA, 02460

617-244-3407 (Voice)

617-244-2403 (TTY)

617-965-8918 (Fax)

READS Program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

This program has 3 locations:

At Mary K Goode Lower Elementary School/Burkland Upper Elementary School Middleboro, MA (both schools are in the same complex), there is a preschool classroom for ages 3 to 5.  There is a lower elementary classroom for grades K to 2.  There is an upper elementary classroom for grades 3 to 5.

At J.T Nichols Middle School, 112 Tiger Drive, Middleboro, MA, there is a program for grades 6 to 8.

At Bristol-Plymouth Vocational High School, Tauton, MA there is a vocational school program for grades 9 to 12.

Contact information:

105 East Grove Street

Middleboro, MA 02346

508-947-8530 (Voice/TTY)

508_947-3634 (Voice/TTY)

508-946-1088 (Fax)

Willie Ross School for the Deaf

This school provides early invention services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing infants and toddlers.  For elementary thru high school level there is a dual campus model:

The elementary school at the Longmeadow school for the Deaf has a partnership campus located on 1 of the 3 elementary schools in the town of East Longmeadow.

The middle school at the Longmeadow school for the Deaf has a partnership campus located in 2 classrooms at the Birchland Park Middle School.

The high school at the Longmeadow school for the Deaf has a partnership campus located on the East Longmeadow High School.

Contact information:

32 Norway Street

Longmeadow, MA 01106

413-567-0374 (Voice/TTY)

413-576-8808 (Fax)

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The teacher shared information on the origin and structure of American Sign Language (ASL).  Thomas Gallaudet was interested in sign language and went over to France and met with Clerc.  ASL has a French structure i.e. Object, Verb, Adjective and Subject at the end which is quite different from English.  The American School for the Deaf in CT was the first school for the Deaf.  After that Thomas Gallaudet and Clerc started Gallaudet University in Washington D.C.

We learned of Deaf cultural rules.  It is a visual world with the Deaf needing more personal space to communicate.  American Sign Language is a language with gestures and fluid expression.  The teacher mentioned how advanced technology is today for example with videophone versus TTY.

There were 14 students in the class.  People were from different backgrounds and wanted to learn American Sign Language for a variety of reasons.  During the introductions I explained that we wanted to empower Deaf people and in particular, hearing parents with Deaf children with our experience, who are going through what we went through when we learned that our son was Deaf.  People were from different work backgrounds; speech therapist, working with disabilities, synagogue, church, early childhood education, nurse, human services provider, medical interpreter, and care giver.  The students are from diverse ethnic backgrounds also; Brazil, India, Japan, African American, Asian, Indian and Caucasian.  Two persons are experiencing hearing loss.  One will be completely Deaf soon and his doctor recommended that he learned American Sign Language (ASL).  The other was in an accident and lost his hearing for a period of time.  Due to that experience he is trying to learn signs so he can communicate with a Deaf child were he lives.

I was the only person in class with a Deaf child.  It is amazing to see how people are so aware of the Deaf community and want to be able to communicate with them.  This is so different from 26 years ago.  The majority of the people in the classes then were people with a child or relative that was Deaf.  This is really exciting and I cannot wait for our future classes.  We will learn to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL) and tell people of our background, family and different experiences.  This will be fun!

Written by: Alex Stephen

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HYPERLINK “http://www.deafinconline.org/index.html” Deaf, Inc is located in Allston, MA and the organization’s mission is to empower Deaf, Deaf-Blind, Hard of Hearing and Late-Deafened people to lead independent lives.  Deaf, Inc offers educational classes and workshops in basic academic skills, job skills, GED preparation, and American Sign Language.

Parents, siblings, relatives of Deaf children or adults can take American Sign Language classes at Deaf, Inc.  The classes are also opened to the general public.  You can also contact your local School for the Deaf for their schedule on American Sign Language classes.

Since schools are reopening for fall, many classes will be starting soon.  So it is an excellent time to make the commitment and sign up for American Sign Language now!

Larry teaches American Sign Language and Amrit taught Mathematics in the past.

Written by Raz Stephen

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