Articles about deaf ministries, perspectives, and relational issues
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.
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.
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.
All families, being made up of individuals, have places where the characteristics that make us unique also make predictable challenges.
I’m about to take you INSIDE the process we use to create the Sign Songs. Every song in the Dr. Wonder TV series starts out in the hands of a Deaf poet.
Often misheard as MnMs, Non-Manual Markers have nothing to do with chocolate, but a lot to do with understanding ASL expressions.
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.
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.
Yipes! The last post was a while ago — hopefully you’ve been keeping up with us through the God Loves Deaf Kids app, because that’s where our focus has been. We set up a way for users to send us feedback, and here’s the question we got this morning: “Can you make it more simple …
Our Ministry Associate was interviewed recently for the Manna Bites podcast by Landon DeCrastos, pastor of Fisher’s Point Community Church in Fishers, Indiana. Here are some notes on the information presented. “How many deaf people are there?” is a basic question, easy to ask but difficult to answer. It depends on who you ask and …
