Hi everybody!
I guess I am one of the few not-Americans here, I am from Italy.
Lurking the forum is helping me very much, thus I decided to register and start posting.
I am the father of a cute 1.5 yr old deaf boy, Leonardo. We got the diagnosis just 5 weeks ago, our family has never had experience in that, it has been hard (it is still hard) to catch it, but my reaction was immediately to look for information, to try to understand and to struggle to accept the situation.
Obviously my son is still the fantastic child he has always been at our eyes, maybe even more than before. I know we are going to take several extremely important decisions for him and it won't be easy at all... Nevertheless we have the chance to be much more important for him than the most of parents, we can really help him a lot, from many many points of view.
I think this community is a wonderful source of information and ideas, I am sure you all will help me a lot and I hope to be able to contribute somehow as well.
Paolo
I guess I am one of the few not-Americans here, I am from Italy.
Lurking the forum is helping me very much, thus I decided to register and start posting.
I am the father of a cute 1.5 yr old deaf boy, Leonardo. We got the diagnosis just 5 weeks ago, our family has never had experience in that, it has been hard (it is still hard) to catch it, but my reaction was immediately to look for information, to try to understand and to struggle to accept the situation.
Obviously my son is still the fantastic child he has always been at our eyes, maybe even more than before. I know we are going to take several extremely important decisions for him and it won't be easy at all... Nevertheless we have the chance to be much more important for him than the most of parents, we can really help him a lot, from many many points of view.
I think this community is a wonderful source of information and ideas, I am sure you all will help me a lot and I hope to be able to contribute somehow as well.
Paolo
to AllDeaf forum. You will learn a lot about our experiences as Deaf people. So I hope you have fun reading and posting all the threads here. 
i know none of my relatives who were mafias but who knows! Most of us are very poor. =( However, Mafia people used to live in NYC who knew a few of my uncles are who my dad's brothers. They used to play pokers with them years ago in 1950's - 1960's. Unfortunatley one of my uncle was killed by them. WE all suspect that unlce owed them a lot. enough said. SO my dad isn't the kind of person like them such as gamble stuff.
