It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas….
Happy Hanukkah, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and all that Jazz!! Travel safely and enjoy your family! (Below, see signs for: Happy, Eat, Car, Family, Cold, Airplane, Home)
American Sign Language and Technology: A Time Line of Deaf Education
Martha’s Vineyard 1690-1880 The families in this community carried dominant and recessive genes for deafness. The birth rate for deaf children: 1 in 155 on the island In some villages as high as 1 in 25 and 1 in 4 (compared to the national average of 1 in 1000). By the mid-1700’s a sign language (not […]
FRIEND
<— “Friend” in ASL (American Sign Language) According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a FRIEND is “a person who you like and enjoy being with” and/or “a person who helps or supports someone or something.” There are some wonderful storybooks for children about friendship. The Frog & Toad series chronicles a very special relationship between two […]
DON’T LAUGH AT ME
October is an important month. Different organizations have different names for it– National Bullying Prevention Month, National Anti-Bullying Month, Stop Bullying Month, Bullying Prevention Awareness Month…call it what you wish, each has the same purpose. Let’s all do what we can to stop bullying and to be positive role models for those around us. During the […]
https://mybabyfingers.com/staging/9114/our-story
I have always loved being around babies and children. I started to baby sit when I was 11 years old, and always had a job teaching drama or music to kids. I saw “Children of a Lesser God” on Broadway as a child and was in awe of the sign language, how it was so beautiful […]
Your Child Has a Cochlear Implant: Why Include Sign Language?
The article linked here was written by Debra Nussbaum, an audiologist and coordinator of the Cochlear Implant Education Center at the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University. The acticle was first published in The Endeavor, for the American Society for Deaf Children (www.deafchildren.org). http://www.gallaudet.edu/clerc_center/information_and_resources/cochlear_implant_education_center/resources/clerc_center_articles_and_publications_on_cochlear_implants_/why_include_sign_language.html In my opinion, each family needs to do what […]
A handwritten note and an actual stamp?
Over the winter holidays the past several years, I have received a handwritten note, with an actual stamp, via “snail mail” from an old college friend. It isn’t a computer printed letter sent out to multiple people (though I do enjoy seeing those too); it isn’t an e-mail, or a Facebook post. It is short […]
2nd Language Learning – ASL can help!
<–“MORE” / “MAS” I have been enjoying helping my kids with their Spanish homework from school. I studied Spanish from 5th – 12th grade in school, and while I did well on the AP exam (therefore passing out of the college language requirement and getting credit), I still chose to take advanced Spanish as an […]
Emergencies
To say “emergency” in ASL, take the E-hand with your palm facing out and shake it quickly from side to side. You can see a demonstration here: http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/e/emergency.htm. At home we have fire extinquishers, ipecac syrup, ice packs, CPR certification… But as parents, are we ever truly prepared for emergencies? For many years I worked as […]
(a day late)
9 – 11 9-11. Always remember. My dad was visiting. Our babysitter was very late. An otherwise normal morning until my grandmother called from out of town to make sure we were ok. “Do you live near the World Trade Center?” she asked. Well, that’s all relative. My mother called soon after, also to make […]