Recent content by happycl8

Um. I don;t think you understand me. I am raising my son but it is hard for me because there are some things I do not know how to navigate for him while my deaf friends may know. Like how to order from a fast food restaurant like a drive through. I am also not fluent enough with signs. I am...

THank you for your welcome! I was afraid I wasn't going to be welcomed because I really don;t know where else to go. Very few hearing families who have autism seem to be open about their kids becoming immersed in the deaf world or at least all the specialists seem to be against their kids...

Honestly I haven't found an autism parenting site and no one ever considers having their hearing autistic raised/educated in the deaf community. I think I am the only ready to hand him over to a deaf family to raise or a deaf school to educate. Currently we spend a lot of our time at the Deaf...

I think KODA's should go to deaf school because I can see how the family can grow apart when kids don't go to the same school and don;t speak the same language. Eventually the child who is deaf, his/her asl will soon surpass the asl skills of his/her siblings and when they are grownups, the...

I am parent of 8 kids and 3 of my kids are on the autism spectrum. My youngest is two is the most severe and he is nonverbal (he has not babbled like mamama or dadadad) but uses sign-ASL. He has about 15-30 sounds. I am trying to get him into a deaf school (toddler/preschool) in Berkeley, CA...

I am parent of 8 kids and 3 of my kids are on the autism spectrum. My youngest is two is the most severe and he is nonverbal (he has not babbled like mamama or dadadad) but uses sign-ASL. He has about 15-30 sounds. I am trying to get him into a deaf school (toddler/preschool) in Berkeley, CA...