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Thank you so much for your contribution. I will do my best to honor all perspectives and feelings in this art project.

Hey y'all. Some of you might have met me around the boards already, I am a hearing mother of 1 very special deaf girl, and 3 other equally amazing girls. I like to come here and get tips, insight, and perspective to better understand and help my daughter learn. We are an ASL speaking family who...

That is, IMHO, the most beautiful perspective shared here. We are all individuals, and as someone else said in one of the comments earlier, we all want to be treated with respect. What better way to respect an individual than using the term they are most comfortable being known by? :) I like it!

:laugh2: lmao - it's funny because it's true! you totally wouldn't, people would look at you so weird...

Whoaaa! Mind = blown. Haha. I really like your perspective, you remind me of Mr. Cobb! The last thing I want to do is offend someone so I do generally try to figure out how they label themselves before I go throwing terms out there, lol..but sometimes that is hard and you need a label. I'm glad...

I really appreciate y'all showing me both perspectives on this. I get where you're coming from, it's a literal term and not intended to be offensive. I am incredibly near sighted. A few inches away from my face and all I see is fuzzy color. When my daughter was young I used this as a way to...

Thank you for your feedback! I don't either, but I try to err on the side of caution because the last thing I want to do is offend anyone, and usually the people I'm signing to are my daughters friends and teachers lol. I've found in my years with this that different people (and this isn't a...

It might be a matter of what "diplomas" are given in that state. Like out here for example a child who goes through our deaf schools does not technically graduate, nor do they receive a diploma. They are viewed more or less as the same as homeschooled children, and receive only a certificate of...

This makes sense, and I appreciate your feedback. I guess the key to really understanding truly is seeing it from the other side, yeah? I have no idea what it's like to be a teacher to these children, just a mum...and I really appreciate y'all as teachers taking the time out of your surely busy...

I enjoyed reading your 'rant', it was also very insightful as to what it's like growing up in a deaf person's shoes. When my daughter was young, very young...like 2 or 3, I used to dream about her going to mainstream school just like Cecile, and her implant working as it did in the demo videos...

Thank you for the insight!! That really does put things in a different perspective, doesn't it? And thank you for the tip! That is one of the scary parts of being a hearing parent in this world, I don't always understand the ins and outs of what is and isn't offensive, and it seems like it...

Hello there community! I am a hearing parent of a deaf child. We've been working with our daughter on our sign language skills since she was 11 months old, and we have more or less progressed at the same rate as her. Best we can tell on campus we seem to be at sort of a children's level of...

Hey Y'all! Just wanted to share some easter themed projects and printables for the kiddos! :wave: Enjoy, and let me know what you think of them. :D I'm open to suggestions and always adding more! http://warnerjessicai.wix.com/weheartasl#!projects/c21kz

Thank you. It was definately a challenging journey, but it's shaped us into some pretty tough people. :) We're feeling pretty confident about her future on the epilepsy front, she has an appointment with her neurologist on monday to see if they are ready to take her off meds or not. They've been...

No, I'm not familiar with them, thanks for sharing! We have participated in some Hands and Voices days, I don't know if that program extends beyond our state or not though.

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Thank you, hello! Your doggy is cute :)

That's funny. I guess it's just hard when you don't hear yourself. This one time we were in our neurologists office and they had a big huge, very nice oak door, open. Lizzie LOVED closing doors and making sure things were sealed and kept propper, and while she was playing with the toys, randomly...

Hi there, y'all. Wanted to introduce myself. My name is Inez, and I am a mother. That's why I am here. I don't like to label my daughter as deaf, it just seems so weird saying, "I have a deaf kid." I don't run around saying "I have blonde kids and brunette kids." so why would I bother with...

Hey guys. New to forum. I've been speaking ASL for 10 years now, ever since my first daughter was diagnosed as having a bilateral sensineural hearing loss and being profoundly deaf. She was implanted at age 3, and we've honestly never been big fans of the cochlear implant. It's great for the...