June 22, 2010, Category: Deaf Parenting
Parenting a special needs child is challenging, have faith and make sure you have a good support system of family, friends, and people from your child’s school system.
Make the welfare of your child a high...
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April 30, 2010, Category: Deaf Education, Deaf Parenting
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...
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October 28, 2009, Category: Deaf Education
The Learning Center for the Deaf.
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...
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October 15, 2009, Category: Deaf Community
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...
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September 30, 2009, Category: Resources
1) http://asl.ms/
2) http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
3) http://www.aslpro.com
Accent= Various sounds by voices (hearing people)
Dialect= Various signs by visual communication (Deaf people)
Warning:
Some signs are not the same across the nation.
American Sign Language dictionary websites are not a guarantee method to learn American Sign Language fluently.
To...
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September 10, 2009, Category: Deaf Parenting
I am Charisma Larry’s younger sister. I enjoyed growing up with Larry, learning American Sign Language, visiting the schools for Deaf that Larry attended and playing with his friends. I will tell my story as a girl with a Deaf brother later on our Blog. Welcome to our family story.
Charisma
To get...
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