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Archive for the ‘Encouragement’ Category
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
“Inclusion is more than just geography”
I wish I could take credit for the quote above, but it came from a great presenter I heard at this year’s AG Bell Convention, Dr. Sarah Wainscott (see my notes from her presentation, “AVT Model for Families Transitioning from Visual Language” HERE).
Back-to-school time is upon us and, for many [...]
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
These articles are reposted from the reports I did for the AG Bell Convention 2010’s Official Blog. I am reposting them here for readers who did not see them “live” during the Convention and so that they will be preserved on this site for future CIO readers. Enjoy!
Research Symposium: Re-Modeling the Deafened Cochlear for Auditory [...]
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Is my child receiving good services from our teacher of the deaf/SLP/AVT/early interventionist? Well, how on earth would I know? How can I tell “good” therapy when I see it? How do I choose between Program A and Program B for my child? Where do I go from here?
Most parents of children with hearing loss [...]
Friday, July 9th, 2010
For decades, literacy has been the Achilles’ Heel of deaf education. Historically, students with hearing loss educated using methods that did not focus on listening and spoken language, have historically achieved abysmally low reading scores[1]. But our children with hearing loss are BORN TO READ! How? Well, even though their ears aren’t working, their brains [...]
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Originally published July 4, 2009. Reprinted here with some edits, and apologies to our foreign readers!
Today we celebrate the birth of our nation, the United States of America’s Independence Day. INDEPENDENCE. That word is so ingrained into the fabric of American culture (and the cultures of many other nations around the world). But what does [...]
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Here’s a taste of what you can read about in my articles on the Official Convention Blog HERE about what I’m learning at the 2010 AG Bell Convention. Today’s sessions included:
Research Symposium: Remodeling the Deafened Cochlear for Auditory Sensation: Advances and Obstacles
Worry, Worry, Too Much Worry? Identifying and Managing Parental Anxiety (a GREAT parent panel– [...]
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
I had ambitions. I happened to be born profoundly deaf, but hear and speak thanks to cochlear implants. I wanted to be an artist. In spite of a language delay due to my hearing loss, I used art as a tool to express myself and even managed to learn to speak French fluently as my [...]
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
HERE’S TO THE MOMS
Here’s to the Moms who may not have “signed up” to parent a deaf or hard of hearing child, but do so anyway with grace and love.
Here’s to the Moms who narrate every second of every day, not caring what others may think.
Here’s to the Moms who put miles on their cars [...]
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
I just discovered this great video of various cochlear implant users living in Singapore speaking about their joys of having the ability to hear and speak and participate in endless number of activities that would be very difficult to do without having the ability to hear such as playing the piano, playing the violin, and [...]
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
While in graduate school, I work part-time at an oral deaf education center. Today, in the lunch room, there was a pair of volunteers putting together packets for… something. Anyway, that’s not the point. The point is, I struck up a conversation with these ladies, and it turns out, they both were [...]
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