Hearing Households, Deaf Siblings
Birth order, boundaries, differences in personality and skills, parental attention… and deafness. Everything adds to the adventure of natural sibling stress.
Deaf Households, Hearing Children
Just as more than 90% of deaf children are born to hearing households, the reverse is true: more than 90% of Deaf-parent households have hearing children.
What?
Those of us with aging loved ones get this question a lot. But not all hard-of-hearing people are senior citizens. Some are children, and they often don’t know that their experience is unusual.
Hearing Households, Deaf Children
Your bright-eyed boy is ready for Kindergarten, or is he? His elder sister was enrolled easily with a quick meeting and a few signatures. Now you get to learn about accommodations, IEPs, and the differing perspectives on how best to educate your deaf or hard-of-hearing child.
Hearing Households, Deaf Babies
The exploration begins immediately: Ten fingers, check. Ten toes? Check.
Then comes the hard news, most parts in working order. The choice between leaning into technology’s promise to bring this child into the hearing world, or studying a new language to join this child in the world that would be theirs is not easy.
Hearing Households, Deaf Youth
Imagine being Marilyn Munster, a young person who doesn’t match your family and neighbors.
A part of our Fissures series, with a nod to October.
Fissures: Overview
All families, being made up of individuals, have places where the characteristics that make us unique also make predictable challenges.
Non-Manual Markers
Often misheard as MnMs, Non-Manual Markers have nothing to do with chocolate, but a lot to do with understanding ASL expressions.
Voice to Sign Software?
There is a very good reason you cannot find a voice-to-sign software – none exists. English is very linear, whereas sign language is multi-dimensional, where emphasis, punctuation, and more is reflected in facial features and body language.
Shouldn’t More Churches Have Deaf (and other) Ministries?
Yes, it should be a common thing among churches to make the gospel available to everyone who is, or may be, among their congregation. Jesus made it clear that He regarded everyone as a person in need of saving grace.