Sentences with phrase «other deaf children»

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.

deaf children should be educated in the company of other deaf children; deaf children need an education that uses and develops accessible language and communication methods and respects the child's visual skills and strengths:

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

Not exact matches

The use of American Sign Language with pre-verbal hearing children (children who are not deaf, but who have not yet started talking) is referred to as baby sign language, signing with babies, and a number of other names.

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.

But soon other families started having deaf children too.

How can society claim to value the deaf, or those with other disabilities, if it requires that their children not resemble them in these respects?

The child leads are endearing and present role models for other younger kids who are deaf or feel alone because of their differences.

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.

The film alternates between two New York City - set stories of children, one a deaf girl in the 1920s and the other a newly orphaned boy fifty years later.

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?).

Wonderstruck is based on the book by Brian Selznick and comprises two stories about deaf children told simultaneously, one about boy in 1977 and the other about a girl in 1927, who share a mysterious connection.

Two stories, one set in 1927, the other in 1977 and both involving deaf children in New York, play out (dreadfully slowly) in parallel and, surprise, surprise, they're connected.

For example, IDEA supported local communities that were developing and implementing early childhood programs; schools serving students with low - incidence disabilities, such as children who are blind or deaf or children with autism or traumatic brain injury; and schools in rural or large urban areas, where financial and other resources are often scarce.

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She also holds two unpaid trustee roles with other charities, SOS Sahel UK, an international development charity working in Sahel region of Africa, and the National Deaf Children's Society who work with deaf children and young people and their fChildren's Society who work with deaf children and young people and their fchildren and young people and their families.

Among other nominees were Carlos, an explosive detector dog who worked in Iraq and Afghanistan; John D, a rescue dog who uses his scenting capabilities to detect cancer in patients; Cassidy, a three - legged dog who visits rehabilitation centers to comfort children with disabilities; and Lola, a rescued guide dog who connects her deaf owner to the surrounding world.

These dogs go on to help veterans with physical and emotional challenges, as well as children and adults who are deaf or have other physical or developmental disabilities.

But you can give your child lots of exposure to the minority language by making sure your child uses Auslan with other signers in the deaf community.

The idea behind Child First is that deaf children should have equal and direct access to communication with classmates, teachers, and other school personnel and competent interpreters.

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».

As a result, we see two types of deaf children being considered for cochlear implant candidacy: (a) young deaf infants and toddlers as part of early intervention plan promoting better language and behavioral development in deaf infants, and (b) older deaf children as the next alternate to other choices that have been attempted and did not satisfy family's expectation.

In regions where access to resources on deafness is scarce, deaf children as well as their parents do not learn sign language or any other visual communication mode until they enroll in an educational program that employs one or more of these approaches.