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I cannot believe how slow this place is. I remember back in the old days when this place was rocking, and everyone was here. Hard to believe things have changed. Wish the old members would return.....

And this is why I advocate for deaf kids. A "new to the community" parent of a deaf kid, was told by someone who is on the extreme side of things, that the Deaf community was rabidly anti hearing aids TWENTY years ago?!?!? I know there was still some rabidly anti HA sentiment as recently as the...

It's like something out of a WWII movie! https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/2018/09/16/7876eade-b9b7-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html?noredirect=on

I always urge parents of dhh kids to bombard them with EVERYTHING. Meaning, speech, Sign, Cued Speech (I know, I know, but it may help as a supplement) and a variety of both Deaf and hearing interventions, such as schools, camps , social groups etc. I have a parental friend who is giving her...

With my 15,000th post (a milestone that I have been waiting to hit for quite a few months) I would like to say SO LONG! I am going into deep lurk. This place while it has an amazing history, and I have spent lots of time here, and made some great friends here is now extremely slow. Nothing much...

I was in the tub reading a book on body image in teenagers....How come it's pretty much a given that making an average girl strive to look like a supermodel creates self hatred issues.........but making a dhh kid strive to be as like a hearing person as possible is a good noble goal?......Seems...

MSD welcomes more students than ever before - Schools - Frederick News-Post Looks like either there are a lot of kids struggling in the mainstream or parents who are sick of their kids being underserved in the mainstream, and who have discovered that deaf/specialized schools offer a good...

Oklahoma Senator trying to shut down the Oklahoma School for the Deaf | LinkedIn

My Child With a Disability Is Not My Hero | Sarah Sweatt Orsborn

Join Us In Seeing Life Differently "It was scary to step out of our comfort zone and throw ourselves into a place where we barely knew how to communicate with everyone around us, but we did it for our son. The Deaf community embraced us and we were so happy that we chose to learn sign language...

I was accused of making up the fact that deaf kids were thought of as mentally disabled, back in the old days. Here is a quote that I was not making it up....... From Art and the Handicapped Child by Zaidee Lindsey,copyright 1972 pg 22 "The fact that many deaf children are only able to hear...

Nothing Is Wrong With Your Child Really

GREAT blog post that ALL parents of oral dhh kids should read: This blog post gets it! Yes, many dhh kids CAN develop speech and hearing abilty BUT it takes a LOT of energy......if they had Sign/a full toolbox of options they could do BETTER! Ian Noon: The impact of concentration fatigue on...

Don't forget to make this call today! On June 27 you are invited to participate in a unique opportunity to advocate for improved educational results for deaf and hard of hearing students. Be part of the National Call in Day to support the Alice Cogswell Act, and tell Congress to make America's...

I was reading something that REALLY spoke to me! "Bilingualism is an all inclusive approach, leaving no room for failures! yet, we are constantly being framed as the ones who refuse to give parents "choices," who are militants, who are advocating for an "ASL only" route (there was never an...

Just thought I'd pass this on....it's a retreat for families of dhh at TSD!!!!! ERCOD Programs & Services

There have been claims that hearing people do not speechread. The end goal of AVT is to make a deaf kid "function" like a hearing kid with no speechreading, as it's seen as a "crutch". Check out this article: Infants May Lip Read to Learn Speech - ABC News ." Gee, I thought speechreading was...

Stanford Magazine - Seeing at the Speed of Sound - March/April 2013

Oralingua shuts down on sour note as fight breaks out between school official, parent - Whittier Daily News WOW! A GRADED oral school shutting down! Most of the other ones that have shut down were the oral speech schools (oral preschools) Seems like a lot of OPTION schools are...

I have a parent on another list who is looking for a bilingual school that has good bimodal (oral training services) She's very interested in Sign, but is also really wanting oral training b/c her daughter's speech is unintelligible.... I've already suggested Maryland School, Kansas School...