Sentences with phrase «by deaf parents»

Under such circumstances, children bring with them to adulthood the language and accent of their peers, not those of their parents.5 Evidence comes from studies of hearing children reared by deaf parents and of deaf children reared by hearing parents (see Harris, 1998) and from studies of the children of immigrants (e.g., Bickerton, 1983).

Inspired by his deaf parents and brother, quarterback Stefan LeFors is lifting Louisville to new heights

Raised by deaf parents in Toa Alta, Padilla learned to shoot by tossing baseballs into an old plastic paint can nailed to a fence.

Not exact matches

It concerns the case of the terrible and tragic abuse, by a Milwaukee priest Lawrence Murphy of many 14 - 15 year old deaf boys (and at least one 12 year old) over many years whilst they were away from the protection of their parents.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Research on baby signing began at the end of the 1980's, when it was noticed by Joseph Garcia, an interpreter for people in the deaf community, that the hearing children of deaf parents began to communicate with their parents early through signing.

They are two parents, Lee (played by Krasinski himself), Evelyn (Emily Blunt), and their children, Marcus (Noah Jupe) and the deaf Regan (Millicent Simmonds).

The nature of parent support provided by parent mentors for families with deaf / hard - of - hearing children: voices from the start.

The only reasonable hypothesis seems to be that the constant nervous strain caused by the presence in the home of a nonspeaking deaf child lowers the parents» threshold of annoyance.

Therefore, the purpose of this qualitative research study was to discover experiences faced by parents of deaf children going through the IEP process.

This state of affairs is not the norm, because the majority of deaf children are raised by hearing parents (Karchmer & Mitchell, 2003) who have never met a deaf individual until their own child (Benedict, 2013).

This qualitative study focused on understanding the experiences, both positive and negative, faced by parents of deaf children going through the IEP process.

Mental health problems of deaf Dutch children as indicated by parents» responses to the child behavior checklist

Moreover, early initiation and consistency in any communication modality employed by the parents (e.g., sign language, cued speech, or auditory verbal) has been found to contribute to better mental health status in deaf adolescents (Wallis, Musselman, & MacKay, 2004).

In another study, a play assessment questionnaire (Calhoun, 1987) was filled out by parents to measure symbolic - cognitive play behavior, which was associated with prelinguistic development in early - identified and late - identified deaf children (Yoshinaga - Itano et al., 1998).