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Deaf Community. Sign language interpreters aid investigation. Itphip. Disciplining a Child with a Hearing Loss - Parent Talk - My Baby's Hearing. Parent Talk Disciplining a Child with a Hearing Loss Question: Do you discipline your deaf or hard of hearing child any differently than your hearing child?

Disciplining a Child with a Hearing Loss - Parent Talk - My Baby's Hearing

If so, in what way? Answers: ~ "I don't think we discipline our deaf child any differently. Perhaps when he was very young he might have gotten away with something because of lack of understanding of what we expected, but that didn't last long. Question:Can you offer any tips on discipline for new parents? ~ "Be extra patient, but don't let them use their impairment as an excuse for bad behavior. Acceptance by Deaf People - Being Accepted by the Deaf Community. I too, am a hearing mother, and I too, have dealt with some rude Deaf pride people who think I have brainwashed one of their own, my son, into being a "hearie.

Acceptance by Deaf People - Being Accepted by the Deaf Community

" But, what they don't realize is that my son's generation and your daughter's are being reared with a more inclusive attitude, and they have opportunities and choices that the previous generation did not. There are fantastic hearing aids out there now, and cochlear implants which are helping more deaf and hoh children with their education...these kids are being reared and educated right along with their hearing peers, and they grow up not being suspicious of their hearing peers, and the hearing peers are growing up with an understanding of their deaf peers.

My son doesn't understand these Deaf pride people. He would be happy to befriend ASL users, and would gladly learn ASL to communicate with them, not because he had a "need" to be one of them in the sense of Deaf pride. As for the cold shoulder, don't worry about it. Halpern, "Listening in on Deaf Culture" In mainstream American society, we tend to approach deafness as a defect.

Halpern, "Listening in on Deaf Culture"

Helen Keller is alleged to have said, "Blindness cuts people off from things; deafness cuts people off from people. " This seems a very accurate description of what Keller's world must have been. We as hearing people tend to pity deaf people, or, if they "succeed" in the hearing world, admire them for overcoming a severe handicap. We tend to look at signing as an inferior substitute for "real" communication (let alone language!). We assume that all deaf people will try to lip-read and we applaud deaf people, such as Marlee Matlin, who use their voices to show us how far they have come from the grips of their disability. Given this climate, many hearing people are surprised, as I was at first, to learn of the existence of Deaf culture.

Members of the Deaf community may have hearing levels that range from profoundly deaf to slightly hard-of-hearing. Teaching a Deaf Child Her Mother's Tongue. Happy Mother’s Day A series of posts honoring wilted flowers, handmade cards and breakfast in bed.

Teaching a Deaf Child Her Mother's Tongue

Most babies are born into the culture and community of their families. If the family is Latino or Tatar or Han Chinese, so is the baby. The baby learns the family’s language — “the mother tongue.” Culture and language are passed down from parents to child. Except when the child is born deaf. Most parents simply whisper and coo to their children in their native tongues. We chose spoken language, primarily. Hearing technologies — in the form of digital hearing aids and cochlear implants — have come so far as to make this a viable option even for our younger daughter, who was born profoundly deaf. More than 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents.