Deaf Mentors:
Deaf mentors are an invaluable resource for hearing parents with Deaf children. Deaf mentors are trained Deaf individuals who can come do home visits as well as go places with you and your child, answer questions, help you develop skills to interact with your child, help foster your signing skills, and provide a Deaf role model for your child. Deaf mentors are often offered through early intervention programs or schools for the Deaf.
Parent Infant Programs:
Often called PIP for short, schools for the Deaf offer these programs where parents and their children come together with an early childhood team for stories, crafts, playtime, and so on. Typically these programs are for infants through age 2. After age 2, many Deaf schools offer half day or full day preschool programs.
ASL Classes:
Deaf schools as well as community colleges offer ASL classes. Look around your area and see what is offered.
Websites of interest:
Info to Go from the Laurent Clerc Deaf Education Center:
Raising Deaf Kids:
Hands and Voices:
American Society for Deaf Children:
Principles for Reading to Deaf Children:
ASL
http://www.aslpro.com/
While some regional signs and dialects in ASL are different, this is a good resource for learning some individual signs and phrases.
If anyone else has other resources and links (or even experiences) to share - feel free.
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Thanks for the comment, Parker Yared actually has mild to moderate scaring of the brain...and no doctor can tell us exactly what it is causing. He had a traumatic birth and was not fluent in Ethiopian Sign Language when we came to us 18 months ago. He had been labeled MR and isolated. He could not even chew his food or take care of hus hygeine. So we are def dealing with more than "just deaf." I believe a large amount of it is trauma and attachment related....and then the cherry ontop is that he is deaf :)
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