A great story to share with D/HH children! If you have a dream, being D/HH is not a barrier! See how Tamara, a deaf girl, achieves her dream!
First I would like to share a few websites with you:
Signs For Intelligence: www.signsforintelligence.com ASL University: www.lifeprint.com Everyday ASL: www.everydayasl.com ASL Pro: www.aslpro.com Signing Time: www.signingtime.com Babies and Sign Language: www.babiesandsignlanguage.com Baby Signs: www.babysigns.com DawnSignPress: www.dawnsignpress.com Sign 2 Me: www.sign2me.com Harris Communications: www.harriscomm.com I also want to share with you something that was presented at an ISD in-service on April 9, 2011. It is a list entitled "Strategies for Visual and Spoken Language Development": 1. Mirroring: copyiing the action of the infant to get them to do it again. 2. Parent-ese: the way of talking or signing to a child using slow exaggerated language, exaggerated facial expressions, and melody and rhythm. 3. Self Talk: the technique of talking to yourself about what you are doing while you are with your child. 4. Parallel Talk: the technique of talking about what the child is doing. 5. Bumping Up Targets: increasing the target goal in slight increments. 6. Rephrasing: the act of stating the sentence again in a different way through expanding upon the grammar or vocabulary. 7. Three Times Rule: stop after three attempts to avoid frustration. 8. Expressive Need: creating a situation in which expressive language is needed. 9. Expectant Pause: pause before responding. 10. Sandwiching: start with the target, provide support needed to reach the target, then end with the target. (Example: Sign the word, spell the word, sign the word. When the child is older, this changes to spell the word, sign the word, spell the word.) I hope these websites and language development strategies are helpful to you! ![]() Check out this fantastic article and info graphic! http://news.psu.edu/story/334349/2014/11/12/research/learning-languages-workout-brains-both-young-and-old During our Expanded Core Curriculum for DHH Counseling, we have been continuing to talk about the interpreters' role in school. We also have been discussing the importance of listening to our peers when they talk in class and valuing the opportunity to have visual and verbal access to understanding each other. It is a Deaf Culture "rule" that when a deaf person is in the room, all persons (who know how to sign) start signing. This ensures that the deaf/hh (DHH) person has full access to information in their current environment which only promotes social, educational, communication, and linguistic growth. Thus, when DHH peers sign in class, it is giving the other students full opportunity to see, engage, reflect, and participate in the class discussion.
During our Social Skills Counseling, we have been diligently working on our "LTMR" skills: Listening Thinking Memorizing Retelling This requires us to attend to the person who is talking/signing, actively listening to what s/he is saying, thinking about what s/he is saying, and remembering what s/he said. To show how we attended to the person's statements, we are practicing our ability to retell the information that we listened, contemplated, and remembered. These skills help us take an active role in our communication responsibility, language enrichment, and information sharing at all times, not just in the classroom. You can help your child's comprehension by asking the to share with you what was just stated. This does mean to help ensure that your child had access to the verbal information, whether it be visual or spoken. During Expanded Core Curriculum for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ECC-DHH) time, we have been learning about Interpreters! We are discussing what a sign language interpreter does and the importance of watching a sign language interpreter to understand all the information being communicated. We are doing role plays in how to use a sign language interpreter appropriately.
During Social Skills counseling, we have been learning about the various situations we can say/sign "Excuse Me", "Please", "Sorry", and "Thank You". We have also discussed other ways we can say "No, Thank you" in a polite way, such as "Maybe Later", "Maybe Another Time", "I need to ask my mom", "I need a few more mins". Please encourage this alterative communication options with your child. Also, we discussed that when one signs "You're welcome", it could be signed as "fine", "sure", "ok", or "no problem". Often the sign of "welcome" is to indicate that someone is invited somewhere and doesn't fit the concept of the signing situation. |
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