Don’t let communication be a barrier to healthy communication!
Link: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/07/01/children-technology/29599373/
Toy companies didn’t make dolls their kids could relate to, so these moms did it themselves.
Take a look at the article below about how toys are being made more relatable to kids.
Link: http://www.upworthy.com/toy-companies-didnt-make-dolls-their-kids-could-relate-to-so-these-moms-did-it-themselves?c=reccon1
Camp hits a home run for deaf kids
The Mike Bush Fantasy Baseball Camp for children who are deaf and hard of hearing is making a difference. It’s a place where children who are D/HH can be among 50 other kids just like them.
Link: http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/making-a-difference/2015/06/29/camp-for-deaf-kids-mike-bush/29449921/
When It Comes To Learning For The Deaf, ‘It’s A 3-D Language’
See how Deaf/HH Adults and technology are helping children and families engage in a way of learning that may be new to them.
Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/06/28/417109518/when-it-comes-to-learning-for-the-deaf-its-a-3-d-languageLink: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/06/28/417109518/when-it-comes-to-learning-for-the-deaf-its-a-3-d-language
Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/06/28/417109518/when-it-comes-to-learning-for-the-deaf-its-a-3-d-language
Teaching Others About Your Hard-of-Hearing Child
Teach extended family, friends, teachers and others how best to communicate with your deaf or hard-of-hearing child.
Link: http://www.hearinglikeme.com/raising/advocate/teaching-others-about-your-hard-hearing-child
Can a Movie Help Children with Attention Issues?
Read at the link below how one mom believes that the new Disney/Pixar movie Inside Out was a great conversation starter for her family.
Link: https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/in-the-news/2015/06/19/thank-you-pixar-why-inside-out-is-great-for-kids-with-attention-issues?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg
Cochlear Implants and Music Perception: 2015
Learn more at the link below about a study done recently that looks at cochlear implants and music perception.
Link: http://www.audiology.org/news/cochlear-implants-and-music-perception-2015
2016 Newborn Screening & Genetic Testing Symposium Now has Call for Abstracts Open
The 2016 Newborn Screening and Genetic Testing Symposium (NBSGTS) will be held in St. Louis, MO from February 29 – March 3, 2016.
You are invited to submit abstracts for oral presentations, posters or roundtables. All submissions must be completed online. Full details on this process are contained in the Call for Abstracts. Please read and follow these directions carefully. Only abstracts submitted online will be considered. The deadline for abstract submission is September 11, 2015.
Link: http://www.aphl.org/conferences/Pages/2016-NBSGTS.aspx
The woman behind deaf and blind school’s English as a Second Language Program
When Betsy Sotillo-Gaura was a child, communicating with her cousin Denise Gonzalez was a challenge.
Sotillo-Gaura spoke fluent Spanish with her Cuban immigrant parents and brother at home and fluent English with her classmates and teachers at school. However, she didn’t have a way to communicate with her cousin. Three years older, Sotillo-Gaura was determined to solve the problem.
Sotillo-Gaura’s aunt contracted German measles (also known as rubella) when she was pregnant with Gonzalez, during the epidemic in the U.S. during the 1960s. Her cousin was diagnosed as deaf at birth due to rubella.
Read more at the link below.
Link: http://staugustine.com/living/community/2015-06-13/woman-behind-deaf-and-blind-schools-english-second-language-program#.VYHLCmDT6BU
Implants, signing let deaf kids be bilingual
Parents of deaf children face a critical responsibility to learn and use sign language, according to a majority of hearing experts quoted in the journal Pediatrics, although the question of whether or not to sign has grown increasingly controversial.
Ten thousand infants are born yearly in the U.S. with sensorineural deafness, and data suggest that half receive cochlear implants, small devices that help provide a sense of sound to profoundly deaf individuals.
While some specialists advise that all deaf children, with or without cochlear implants, learn sign language, others fear that learning sign language will interfere with the demanding rehabilitation needed to maximize the cochlear device. Still others worry that asking parents to learn a new language quickly is too burdensome.