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The Impact of Implants on Schooling
More than 8 out of 10 children who are or were hearing impaired now
attend their local schools. Just a couple decades ago, 8 out of 10 hearing impaired children attended deaf schools.
Infant Drowns
The infant child of a deaf woman drowned in Knoxville Tuesday. Jennifer Tomko left Javin Collins alone in bathtub and found the ten-month-old drowned when she returned. Her neighbors called 911 and attempted CPR, but her baby was pronounced dead at East Tennessee Children's Hospital.
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Two ideas: one in gesture and the other in sign
Deaf students make gestures like hearing children when trying to explain math concepts - and these gestures are different from the ideas they expressed in sign language. Researchers at the University of Chicago watched 40 deaf children explain math problems and noted they used gestures, as do hearing children, when explaining a math problem. Psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow, who led the study, says previous research involving hearing children shows that gestures that do not match speech indicate there are teaching opportunities for the student. She believes the new research indicates the same is true for deaf children, in that gestures that are not ASL-based reveal a teachable moment. Goldin-Meadow says, “The gestures ASL signers use tell us when they are ready to learn math." If this is the case, it reveals a weakness in having a hearing teacher convey concepts to a deaf student through an interpreter. The interpreter may be looking at the student and miss the teachers gestures and not relay the information conveyed in those gestures. The deaf student is then only getting a part of the information, the part conveyed through spoken English. Funding for the study came from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the National Science Foundation. Details are in the journal Cognition.
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Two ideas: one in gesture and the other in sign
Deaf students make gestures like hearing children when trying to explain math concepts - and these gestures are different from the ideas they expressed in sign language. Researchers at the University of Chicago watched 40 deaf children explain math problems and noted they used gestures, as do hearing children, when explaining a math problem. Psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow, who led the study, says previous research involving hearing children shows that gestures that do not match speech indicate there are teaching opportunities for the student. She believes the new research indicates the same is true for deaf children, in that gestures that are not ASL-based reveal a teachable moment. Goldin-Meadow says, “The gestures ASL signers use tell us when they are ready to learn math." If this is the case, it reveals a weakness in having a hearing teacher convey concepts to a deaf student through an interpreter. The interpreter may be looking at the student and miss the teachers gestures and not relay the information conveyed in those gestures. The deaf student is then only getting a part of the information, the part conveyed through spoken English. Funding for the study came from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the National Science Foundation. Details are in the journal Cognition.
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Sign Language Club
A sign language club for kids in New Zealand. Here's a video report from a local channel.
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Sign Language Club
A sign language club for kids in New Zealand. Here's a video report from a local channel.
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Thru your child’s eyes
There's a new video made for parents to help them understand the value of sign language. Produced by the California State University at Northridge, you can see it below on DeafNewsToday.com.
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Family turns to Implants
The story of one family's journey to provide two children with cochlear implants here.
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Deaffie Eddie Freddie
A new teddy bear is in development that would help kids learn sign language. An Irish teenager came up with the idea. Katie McCarthy is talking with manufacturing companies in both the UK and US about mass producing Deaffie Eddie Freddie. A child can press pictures on a screen located on the bear’s body and its movable fingers will sign the word. Katie got the idea from talking with a woman whose daughter was the same age as her sister. They met in a toy store and the woman told Katie how hard it is to find toys designed for deaf children. After hearing the story, she told one paper "I was almost reduced to tears. I thought it was so sad because my little sister has so much choice."Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
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Council Puts Cuts on Hold
The city council in the Manchester suburb of Salford is delaying its plans to cut services for deaf children. The Salford Council intended to cut the number of teachers. Now, these proposed changes will be considered by a committee of parents and interested officials. The proposal had drawn protests from the National Deaf Children's Society and more than 4000 locals who had signed a petition opposing the cuts.
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