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On September 24, 2009 at 7:21 pm
A Deaf Family’s Story:
Sheena, my wife, and myself, Manny, are profoundly Deaf. We both are from Hearing parents and Hearing family. Almost 6 months ago, we had our first child, who happened to be born Deaf. We are very excited to be experimenting with many things to accelerate her development. Since the day our daughter, Shaylee, was born… we have exposed her to sign language. We sign everything to her such in a manner a Hearing parent would speak to their Hearing baby. Shaylee already signs the word milk at the age of 5 months. We have been reading her books for the past two months and she is starting to enjoy looking at the book. We look forward to sharing more of our experiences and learning from yours so we can give our child the best tools for success in her life.
Written By: Manny Johnson
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On September 25, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Manny,
Thank you for sharing your family story. Shaylee signed her first word at 5 months! Wow!. You and your wife are doing a great job. Communication is so important. Shaylee is getting a strong language foundation in American Sign Language from birth, like you said, just as hearing babies learning a spoken language from birth.
I wished we knew sign language and could teach Larry from birth. We learned signs from a book while we lived in Trinidad and we did not start taking sign language until we moved to the USA. At that point Larry was already 4 years old. It is very difficult for us as new parents trying to communicate with our Deaf son without sign language skills.
We look forward to hearing more of your experience and sharing our experience with you.
Written By: Raz Stephen
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On September 29, 2009 at 9:59 am
Kids of Deaf Adults (KODA):
Thanks so much for sharing your story with us!
As you know from our story, Amrit and I are Deaf and our daughter Raveena is hearing. We too have been signing with her and reading/signing books to her from her birth. Raveena goes to daycare nursery at the Learning Center for the Deaf where Amrit teaches. So Raveena is exposed to both signing and spoken English. Raveena’s first sign was milk at between 7 to 8 months. Shaylee signed milk at 5 months! Wow! Fantastic! You can search a group named Kids of Deaf Adults (KODA) in your local area. That would be helpful for you to meet experienced Deaf parents.
Larry Stephen
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On September 30, 2009 at 7:27 am
Title: Teacher for the Deaf Story
I have just visited some of the pages on your blog and have read your free download “Unimaginable Miracles.” My gosh, what a life your family has had! And what impressive achievements Larry has made. Congratulations to all of you! What amazing strength you all have.
I have seen other blogs from Deaf people and their families, but none have gone into nearly as much detail as your blog. Your writing style is so personal, warm and enjoyable! It is very inspiring how you all took your setbacks in stride and learned whatever lesson there was to learn in them.
In my opinion, one of the best things in your download was that you listed what you felt you did right, and what you wished you had done differently, in each situation. These insights will prove very useful to others who are just starting down the path you have already traveled.
Here is my story about my involvement with deafness.
My interest in the field of deafness and in sign language began, I believe, when I was about 11 or 12. I was sick; the doctor prescribed a medicine for me, telling my mother that it would impair my hearing temporarily, for as long as I was on the medication – several days. The experience of temporary hearing impairment was a real eye-opener. I taught myself fingerspelling from a book soon after that, and later I trained as an interpreter and teacher of the deaf. I raised both my children with exposure to sign language. My kids are hearing, and they enjoy signing very much.
Currently, I work at a company that supplies assistive devices to blind, deaf and mobility-impaired customers. The owner’s son works there as well, and he is Deaf. There are several other Deaf employees too. Part of my job is to interpret occasionally for these Deaf employees. Also, I am utilized as an interpreter in court when necessary. I am working towards refreshing my interpreting certificate in the next few months.
Rosemary Kurtz has worked as a teacher and interpreter for the Deaf. She got her Masters of Arts from New York University. She is involved in many aspects of the field of deafness, including education, mentoring and interpreting. You can read Rosemary’s articles on EzineArticles at http://ezinearticles.com/?expert_bio=Rosemary_P._Kurtz
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On November 8, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Dear Stephen Family
Hi my name is Jennifer, I am currently in college taking different classes to help me with the hopeful prospect of becoming a Foster Mom. I am currently taking ASL and found your site while researching for a paper and other helpful info. I enjoy your emails, and thought I would share a little about me; at this time I am unable to work and with having this dream and an unsavory past I thought that I had to do something to improve my life and show that I have changed. so here I am ending my third semester A GCC (I have an AS from there from 1995) I am hoping to go on to SUNY Brockport in January, where I will begin addiction studies and continue taking classes that involve human services and child/adolescent development. I took the drug and alcohol class and the family addiction class, from that I was approached by my teachers and they thought that I would make a good counselor. I have been through that myself and would be able to relate to others in search of help(mine did not have that experience and really did nothing but get me mad).
my real goal of putting myself back in school after 15 yrs is to prove that i am changing my life and taking classes like nutrition safety and child development will give me an edge. that is also where ASL comes into play. I have always been interested and learned something’s in Girl Scouts, my thinking is that there probably are not a lot of ASL foster homes and I would go to any length to help a child in need.
i have a lot of love to give and there are plenty of children in need of some TLC and nurturing, by learning ASL i have opened a few more doors for those children out there.
that’s about the gist of my story for now, i appreciate the tips they will go into my “better Mom” file for when i need to reference them, which I hope will be soon. for now i have a Philosophy test in the morning i must go review for.
Have a great week ;-}
Jennifer
PSattached is a picture of my “doghter” RUBY
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