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Inclusion and Hearing Loss
More students with hearing loss are instructed in the "regular" classroom each year. Here are some strategies for instructing a student who is deaf or hard of hearing.
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Online Dating for Deaf Singles
Today there are online dating sites catering to almost every specific group of people. For the hearing impaired, these sites stand out.
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Practice Telling Time with a Photo Journal
Use pictures and a time journal to promote speech with your hearing impaired child. All you need is a camera, your printer, and a day full of fun!
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Deaf Kids Communication Tips
Hearing impairment can mean many things ranging from complete deafness to inability to hear certain high frequency sounds. Here are ideas to ease communication.
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Learning British Sign Language
According to the Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People (CACDP), sign language is the preferred language of around 95,000 people in the UK.
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Snow Day Fun for Autistic Kids
The announcement of school closing is thrilling for most students. That is not always the case for children with special needs.
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Assisting a Deaf-Blind Person
Not all deafblind people are totally deaf or totally blind, and most of the time they don't need extra help from strangers. Here's what to do if help is needed.
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Ethical Implications of Counseling the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Providing mental health services to the deaf and hearing impaired client
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This Beautiful Mess: Falling On Deaf Ears
A much needed dose of splendor and shot of adrenaline into the heart of the sagging emo genre.
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Web Empowers a Deaf-Blind Individual
Craig is deaf and blind. Despite this, he is about to graduate with his Bachelor of Arts degree and is extremely busy with other <em>fascinating stuff</em>. The Internet enables and empowers him to maintain a fulfilling and productive life.
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Accessible to Deaf-Blind Guests
The American Foundation for the Blind publishes a pamphlet with an accessibility checklist for hotel, motel and other accommodations operators.
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Deaf Children Learn Fire Safety
October 8-13 is National Fire Prevention Week. As schools promote fire prevention and safety how can parents of hearing impaired children do the same in their homes?
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Deaf Dogs Make Great Pets
A deaf dog can easily learn obedience, agility and other sports through hand signals.
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Deaf KIds Chalk Talk
Taking time to enjoy sidewalk chalk with your deaf child is more than just art fun. Read how to boost talking, reading, and writing.
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Fossil Bat Flew While Deaf
A well-preserved fossil of a previously unknown species of bat has resolved an evolutionary conundrum - could bats fly before they could echo-locate their insect prey?
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Help Your Deaf Child Read
If a deaf child struggles to understand words and to talk, how does he learn to read? This is the first in a series of articles on reading and deafness.
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Miss Deaf America
With more than 30 contestants, the Miss Deaf America pageant has come a long way since its beginnings.
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Port Arthur Access - Blind, Deaf
Port Arthur is an accessible historic site in Tasmania. Information for visually and hearing impaired, claustrophobics, and a note about the dark history.
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Teaching Reading to the Deaf
Parents of deaf children are focused on empowering their child to talk and later to read. How do pattern books assist in the development of reading skills?
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Tragic Songs Fall on Deaf Ears
New country acts that try to get noticed by singing songs of tragedy are not cutting through the clutter.
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"Face The Music"
This is a story about Music and the deaf.
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Against The Odds
Go out and make your dreams come alive
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Alexander Graham Bell
The life, times and and many achievements of one of the world's greatest inventors.
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Art Imitates Life
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Building Language Skills
What does a teacher or speech therapist mean by language skills? She is simply referring to communication. For most children it develops naturally.
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Detecting Deafness
There are a few clues you can look for at an early age that give you an idea if your child is hearing-impaired.
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Digital Hearing Aids Come of Age
Deafness and hearing loss are not uncommon among people over 50, or even younger. Today's hearing solutions are affordable, comfortable and highly technical.
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Distorted Images
Images of the deaf and hearing impaired....How can people be so judgemental? Schools and Stores, what are they thinking?
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Distorted Images
Images of the deaf and hearing impaired....How can people be so judgemental? Schools and Stores, what are they thinking?
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Distorted Images
Images of the deaf and hearing impaired....How can people be so judgemental? Schools and Stores, what are they thinking?
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Hearing Dogs
How dogs can be trained to help deaf people
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Hope Is An Empowering Word
How spending time alone, or with others will give you just the right amount of balance in your life.
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Language Delays and Halloween Fun
Halloween is the celebration of ultimate pretending. Use this opportunity to build vocabulary and language skills in your child.
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One Voice
People who listen to their inner voice, and where it leads them.
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People Who Have Made A Difference
Deaf people who have made a difference in the Peforming Arts during the 20th Century.
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Selecting Genes in Offspring
Some members of the deaf and dwarf communities want to pass on these characteristics to their offspring. This development is compared to other forms of community identity
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Sign Language Sytems
Believe it or not, there is more than one kind of sign language! Which one to use? It depends upon what you need/want.
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Special Ed Kids Learn Time
Perhaps your child is deaf. She understands pictures but she does not have the words to talk about them. Here are some words to start with:
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Special Ed Tweens and Time
Your ADD teen heads to the mall where he likely looses track of time. He sets his watch alarm for time to head home. He has fun with friends. Your expectation is met.
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Speech Problems in Kids
Great ways to encourage talking as you take a walk with your special needs child.
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SUMMER SCHEDULES
Children and teens, particularly those with special needs, need a plan. Having a schedule in the summer, helps them understand and cope with the world's expectations.
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The Sounds of Silence
American Sign Language and the Sounds Of Silence.
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The Sounds Of Silence
This is an artical about educating children who are hard of hearing.
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Updated Canadian Rules
Information Bulletin from the Canadian Transportation Agency announces some key accessibility developments for air, rail and ferry travel, including in terminals.
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Last Week of September is Deaf Awareness Week
Deaf Awareness Week (DAW) is held the last full week of September to educate people about the deaf community and to dispel misconceptions.
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Another Voice
Melbourne poet, Myron Lysenko, chronicles his recent experiences working with hearing-impaired poets, and discovers a new language at work in the heart of the process.
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Childhood Hearing Loss
A hearing loss in childhood can mean many things. First, it is important to identify the type and degree of the hearing loss.
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