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Deaf Parenting: Holidays Communication Tips for Families with Deaf Children
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Well, it is the busy holiday time again! Such a wonderful time for celebrations and family at Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, and New Years. You are so busy. There is shopping to do; travel plans to make; relatives coming to visit; going to relatives to visit; cooking to be done; going to worship; the list just...
Deaf Parenting: An Individual Education Plan to Effectively Meet Your Child’s Educational Needs.
It is important for parents of deaf and other special needs children to understand what an Individual Education Plan is and how to ensure your child’s education needs are being met in his or her IEP.
In this article, I will discuss:
What is an IEP
Give tips for having an effective IEP that meets your child’s educational...
Parenting a Deaf Child as a Hearing Parenting, You Must Learn American Sign Language: Deaf Parenting.
Alex and I were very young parents when we found out Larry was deaf. Larry is now a successful Deaf adult. Based on our experience we feel it is very important for hearing parents to learn American Sign Language (ASL). Here are my thoughts on hearing parents learning ASL.
Having a deaf child was totally new...
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...
It is so difficult for Hearing Parents to let go of their Deaf Children but they must let go!
It is so difficult for Hearing Parents to let go of their Deaf Children but they must let go!
I must confess that I like to be in control of any situation so it is very difficult for me to just let go. Well, Larry, Amrit and Raveena (our first and only grandchild) has been living...
American Sign Language Class-Deaf Parenting
I decided to refresh my sign language skills and so I attended my first of nine American Sign Language (ASL) classes at Deaf, Inc last night. What a great diverse group! The teacher is Deaf and has already set the tone to make the class fun, and raised our interest in ASL and Deaf culture. ...
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...
