Sentences with phrase «deaf children from»

Demographic data for parents and deaf children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds present an alarming need for further research on the identification of barriers encountered during the IEP process.

But younger pupils — who had interacted with other deaf children from an early age — used a more complex series of signs.

Rose (Millicent Simmonds) is a deaf child from Duluth who is obsessed, for reasons that become plain, with glamorous silent movie star Lillian Mayhew, played by Julianne Moore.

Not exact matches

The importance of auditory experiences for the interpretation of reality is proven through observation of deaf children... A world without sound is a dead world; when sound is eliminated from our experience, it becomes clear how inadequate and ambiguous is the visual experience if not accompanied by auditory interpretation... Vision alone without acoustic perceptions does not provide understanding.

That man, a deaf, 50 - year - old postal worker from Georgia identified in court papers as «C.M.,» paid Cook to carry anonymously donated eggs he fertilized in the hopes of having children.

Over the years, many of Al - Sayyid's deaf children have been bused to special classes for the deaf in nearby towns, where they are taught all day in spoken language — Hebrew or Arabic — accompanied by signs from Israeli Sign Language, a language utterly different from their own.

Half of the adult hearing and half of the deaf participants in the study had learned ASL as children from their deaf parents, while the other half had grown up using English with their hearing parents.

From a statistical analysis of data on 19th - century American families with deaf children, he estimated that in those days, Cx 26 mutations accounted for only 17 % of inherited deafness.

Responses from deaf children with CIs largely mirrored these effects, but the observed waveforms showed component peaks in later time windows (open vs. closed class 300 - 500ms.; nouns and verbs, 500 - 700) with somewhat reduced amplitudes.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

In Morocco, a boy accidentally shoots an American woman, Susan (Cate Blanchett), in the neck from atop a mountain, leaving her husband, Bill (Brad Pitt), to scramble for medical assistance; back in America, Amelia (Adrianna Barraza), takes Susan and Bill's children to Mexico for a wedding but runs into trouble with border police when trying to return to San Diego; and, over in Tokyo, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), the deaf - mute daughter of an amateur hunter, Yasujiro (Kôji Yakusho), who sold his rifle to the Moroccan boy's father, begins to unravel after too many boys reject her advances.

Haynes tells the story of two children from two different eras: Rose (Millicent Simmons), a deaf girl living in 1927, and Ben (Oakes Fegley), a boy living in 1977.

Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video - on - demand, and other streaming services... Wonderstruck (2017, PG), a lovely and touching film from Todd Haynes about two deaf children separated by decades but connected by fate (and New York's Museum of Natural History), got lost -LSB-...]

The movie has a mean sense of humor that undermines its attempts at a feel - good romantic comedy (What other explanation is there for the cut from the mention of tragedy to a group of deaf children?).

Both stories contain deaf children who, despite being audibly - impaired, run away from their bleak small towns to NYC where they're left to their own devices in the overwhelmingly big apple.

Roughly 50 years prior in 1927, defiant adolescent Rose (Millicent Simmonds), deaf since birth, runs away from tyrannical father Dr. Kincaid (James Urbaniak) and snags the ferry to New York, her brother Walter (Cory Michael Smith) sending his sister a postcard informing the child their estranged actress mother Lillian Mayhew (Julianne Moore) has returned to the city from Hollywood to star in a play on Broadway.

Many States had laws that explicitly excluded children with certain types of disabilities from attending school including children who were deaf and blind.

It's estimated 12 000 deaf children and teenagers have already benefited from the initiative.

The book tells some stories from the childhood of Helen Keller, a child who became deaf and blind yet accomplished much in her lifetime.

Children who are deaf from birth or early infancy need to have a continuum of services available to them, including a school for the deaf.

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

Jo Campion from National Deaf Children's Society said: «Although deafness is not a learning disability, government figures show that 65 % of deaf children in England fail to get five grades A * to C at GCSE, including English and mathsChildren's Society said: «Although deafness is not a learning disability, government figures show that 65 % of deaf children in England fail to get five grades A * to C at GCSE, including English and mathschildren in England fail to get five grades A * to C at GCSE, including English and maths.»

Solomon asserts that a certain level of acceptance and compassion needs to be extended to these parents - that having a child who is seriously disturbed in this way can be as «accidental» as having one who's deaf - and that if we can accept that some children are born with innate qualities they didn't inherit from their parents, we can then focus on how to help these kids before they ruin their own lives, instead of demonizing them and their families after the fact.

Talking Hands combines 1960s archival footage from the Zagorsk school, outside Moscow, for deaf - blind children with a conversation between Almborg and one of its former students, Alexander Suvorov.

The Boiler House will open a room of photographs of workers from an East German clothes factory and the Moscow Metro by Helga Paris and Olga Chernysheva, a group display about artists» responses to the HIV / AIDS pandemic, and a room showcasing Erkan Özgen's powerful video Wonderland, in which a deaf - mute Syrian child communicates his experiences of war.

Cooper Union has demonstrated a long history committed to to service to society, and there are a number of existing initiatives that continue to build community from the Saturday art program for high school students, to the Interactive Light Studio, an outreach project where engineering students are working to create a digital display that responds to sound, which will be installed at local public school for deaf and hearing children.

Many young deaf children of hearing parents (Karchmer & Mitchell, 2003) from non-signing homes have not yet developed BICS, or basic interpersonal communication skills (Cummins, 1979), leaving them without the linguistic foundation to enter school and build CALP.

One possible solution to the low expectations of deaf children is to shift away from the pathological view and move to a Deaf epistemology (Holcomb, 2010) that focuses on visual access, visual language, and visual learning.

Solomon (2012) discussed this conflict as one of vertical (from parent to child) versus horizontal (from deaf community to deaf child) identity development.

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).

This study confirmed that deaf children benefit more from problem - focused coping and also supported the texts that suggested contact with other deaf children may lessen the negativity of mainstreaming on their relations.

(Kluwin, Blennerhassett, & Sweet, 1990) Another study (Charlson, Strong, & Gold, 1992) showed that children experienced the most comfort from being around deaf peers and using family members for emotional support.

The law says that a child is disabled if s / he is: «blind, deaf of dumb or suffers from a mental disorder of any kind or is substantially or permanently handicapped by illness, injury or congenital deformity or such other disability as may be prescribed».

Data from 46 severely to profoundly deaf pediatric patients at the Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, were analyzed.

assistance from a specialist teacher of the deaf to help the child make the most of their residual hearing.