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Over 23 years for me. Started by volunteering at a DSC as a relay operator 4 days a week while my daughter was in Pre-K prior to the Feds mandate relay services.....and from that point on.....mostly issues around qualified interpreter in the education setting and children groups. I came to...

You know, there is a time for everything. Learning to sign and teaching my daughter was a struggle that we went through together. I wish that I was deaf and signed......how nice it would have been for her. I live a busy life too, but something as important as this you make the time, and it...

Sure do, how about you?

See this is my point. Suffer. I get it. I see it everyday. I don't see how you can offer serious information to assist another person if you see yourself only in that way. When our daughter was diagnosed as deaf, we didn't think or her as broken--how do we fix her now. We thought---ok, now...

Yeah that must be it. I find the best wisdom here. Frustrated yes, problem not my daughter or our relationship. Just can't find deaf who are advocates. Daughter and I were discussing it today and decided that since the Deaf Community is so small in any given area that maybe that is why...

What is funny...I don't group all deaf together, but deaf seem to do just that to themselves. You know like all the hearing people think the same, and all black people think the same. I didn't know that deaf people had one mind. Serious, with all the barriers that deaf have you would think...

Always whining! Raised a Deaf daughter and required the family to LEARN sign language, and if she was present it was to be used. Volunteered at the DSC.....saw very few deaf there.....attended a deaf church.....though it was not of our faith. One thing I have found has stayed the same all...

Just out of curiosity, have any of you thought about forming a group to help parents of deaf children to let them know the isolation of not having a family that signs? I find it frustration that deaf adults bitch about such things, but do nothing to help others.