Sentences with phrase «of deaf parents»

The daughter of deaf parents reconciles her musical talents with the silent world in which she grew up.

In the near future, they also want to explore development in another interesting group of babies — the hearing infants of deaf 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.

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.

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.

Of course, dancing or violin lessons will not make a great dancer or violinist of the child which parents are completely tone - deaf or have «two left legs»Of course, dancing or violin lessons will not make a great dancer or violinist of the child which parents are completely tone - deaf or have «two left legs»of the child which parents are completely tone - deaf or have «two left legs».

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.

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This video introduces parents to young deaf and hard of hearing individuals who come from different backgrounds and have had a range of experiences.

Instead, Krasinski and Emily Blunt are the parents of three children, one deaf just to complicate matters (and provide a great third act payoff), with another on the way.

Baby lives with Joseph (CJ Jones), a deaf African - American gentleman who is old enough to be his... well, that is explained, and it's part of Baby's backstory involving his parents, especially his dear mother, and why he keeps buds in his ears to listen to his own mix tapes.

Fletcher's Oscar win was made especially poignant when she signed part of her acceptance speech as a tribute to her deaf parents.

Abruptly down a member to four people, including the grief - stricken parents (Krasinski and Emily Blunt), a remaining son (Noah Jupe), and a deaf daughter (Wonderstruck's Millicent Simmonds, who lost her hearing at age 1), they soldier on, with the weight of loss and guilt added to their burden.

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 most immediately apparent source of Nina's irritation is Dot (When a Stranger Calls» Camilla Belle), a silent, presumably deaf girl, whom Nina's parents, architect Paul (Martin Donovan) and interior decorator Olivia (Edie Falco), have taken in after the death of her father.

In the event that an interpreter of the deaf is unavailable, the school district shall make other reasonable accommodations which are satisfactory to the parents or guardians.

She is one of the founders of Aussie Deaf Kids, an online support group for parents of deaf and hearing impaired children which started in 2000.

Ryan Grant, a fifth grade teacher at Michael Anderson Elementary on the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, said he has been attracted to the idea of charter schools thanks to teaching kids who have been in charter schools in other states plus the experience of parenting a 6 - year - old who is deaf and getting the help she needs at a special school.

More than 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents who don't sign, said Hamilton, which means, «a lot of deaf children grow up with almost no language until they hit school.

each deaf child is the child of his or her parent (s), not the product nor the property of any culture theory, or establishment;

Through strong collaboration with parents, the deaf community, the educational research community, the school community, and the business community, we are a model of best practices and an exemplary resource in the field of Deaf Education both nationally and internationally.

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

Although these findings resonate with education activists and an increasing number of parents across the nation, they have fallen on deaf ears with leadership in our state, even while many other states have dropped their membership with the consortium or removed tying results to high stakes until such findings are substantiated.

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.

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.

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.

This is to discourage the breeding of merle dogs, because dogs that are the product of two merle parents are often stillborn, or they are born deaf and blind.

She has also been published in APDT's Chronicle of the Dog, a peer - review journal on the special considerations in training a deaf dog, «Pet Parent» Magazine, and appeared on NJ's local Channel 12's «Pet Stop».

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.

The children of two deaf parents with two different recessive deafness can be unaffected but carry both genes.

However, the response will probably fall on deaf ears outside of the industry and the fact they have used the opportunity as a sales pitch to parents is in itself a little cheap.

My response fell on deaf ears because they thought my protest was personal; that I interpreted the situation as their assessment of the quality of my parenting or hygiene.

To provide emotional, informational, and technical support to parents with children who are deaf or hard of hearing, parents who are deaf and hard of hearing, and the professionals with whom they work so that all of their children develop commensurate with their SC peers.

Applying this model, medical and early intervention professionals would strongly suspect that these hearing parents would be unaware of how their own attention getting devices would not be effective with their deaf and hard of hearing infant.

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.

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).

Therefore, this sample is not representative of all parents of deaf children across the United States.

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.

The purpose of this shifting is to highlight that parents and their deaf children need to be heard when making decisions about what will best serve the family.

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

Given that some of our parents were deaf ASL users, they were able to easily understand the needs of their children.

Only six parents with ten deaf children who resided in the Southwestern part of United States were included in this project.

When parents view deaf children through the lens of a Deaf epistemology, they can effectively support their children's visual learning styles (Hauser, O'Hearn, McKee, Steider, & Thew, 2010), achieve positive educational success with their children (Holcomb, 2010), and reframe deaf children as positive with having multiple opportunities (Benedict, 2011).

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

The still - face experiment has also been used to investigate cross-cultural differences, deaf infants, infants with Down syndrome, cocaine - exposed infants, autistic children, and children of parents with various psychopathologies, especially depression.

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).

A key activity of state deaf - blind projects is to partner with parent centers to serve families in their states.