Sentences with phrase «deaf parents»

In the near future, they also want to explore development in another interesting group of babies — the hearing infants of deaf parents.
In her new memoir, Burn Down the Ground, Crews reveals the source of this motto in her hardscrabble childhood in rural Texas with deaf parents.
Raised by deaf parents in Toa Alta, Padilla learned to shoot by tossing baseballs into an old plastic paint can nailed to a fence.
Is the Graco Secure Coverage Digital Baby Monitor with 2 Parent Units safe for me as deaf parent?
He discovered how easily hearing babies of deaf parents learned sign language and also noticed that these babies appeared less demanding than babies who didn't know sign language because they could express their thoughts and needs more easily.
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.
If deaf parents foresee that conceiving a child through a conjugal act would result in a congenitally deaf child, that choice is morally permissible and should be legally protected.
In England, deaf activists protested a 2007 bill that allowed for genetic selection only against certain diseases and disabilities, and prohibit selection for them, claiming deaf parents should have the right to select a deaf child if hearing parents have the right to select a hearing child [source: TimesOnline].
The daughter of deaf parents reconciles her musical talents with the silent world in which she grew up.
«This is the first time that we have learned about this, and it gravely concerns me because there are several deaf and hard - of - hearing children who take advantage of the voucher to attend schools the parent (s) choose, or even deaf parents choosing to send their hearing children to school using vouchers,» said Schmidt.
The same year, Henderson rejected requests for special school placements from a D.C. agency director and a deaf woman who wanted her daughter to attend Brent Elementary School, where she said there would be greater opportunities for the child to use sign language with several children of other deaf parents.
The likelihood of deafness being present in dogs with at least one unilaterally deaf parent has been shown to be significantly greater in the Dalmatian and English Cocker Spaniel breeds, but insufficient data is available from Catahoulas to confirm a similar effect.
Growing up with deaf parents and brothers, Jodee became the family interpreter and conduit to the mainstream world.
The artist's other subjects include a young female - to - male transsexual, X-Factor and Celebrity Big Brother contestant Rylan Clark, a pair of deaf parents, a Muslim convert and a couple living with Alzheimers.
Inspired by his deaf parents and brother, quarterback Stefan LeFors is lifting Louisville to new heights
For that matter, should a deaf parent who embraces his or her condition be permitted to select an embryo apt to produce a child unable to hear?
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.
Fletcher's Oscar win was made especially poignant when she signed part of her acceptance speech as a tribute to her deaf parents.
Louane Emera (a semi-finalist in the second season of The Voice France) plays Paula, a young girl who lives with her deaf parents and brother.
The Oscars are about big moments; they're about Roberto Benigni climbing across chairs to the stage, and Louise Fletcher signing her speech to her deaf parents, and Michael Moore getting booed for denouncing the Iraq War, and Vanessa Redgrave getting booed for saying «Zionist hoodlums.»
The children of two deaf parents with two different recessive deafness can be unaffected but carry both genes.
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