Lisa Weaver
I was first introduced to sign language and deafness when my son’s pediatrician told me that she thought he could be deaf. That was in 1994 and I am still learning. My school district, where we lived had a Total Communication philosophy, so we learned S.E.E. for those early years. After reading extensively on deaf and hard of hearing children and the other options for teaching them, I decided to take some ASL classes; that was in 1999. Since then, I received my certificate in ASL deaf studies and currently working on my general education for an AA degree. I was hired as an Educational Interpreter in 2000 at an elementary school. My son graduated from the elementary school in which he started as a preschooler and is now attending a School for the Deaf, where we have become involved in that community.
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS
Article about the interaction between deaf mothers and deaf babies-http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/products/perspectives/nov-dec98/making.html
Article on literacy http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Literacy/srp/15princ.html
ASL http://www.deafmissions.com/dic/ASLdm.html
ASL http://www.deafmissions.com/dic/ASLdm.html
Lending Library- http://www.cfv.org/
National Association of the Deaf- http://www.nad.org/
Website for recently diagnosis child hearing loss http://www.babyhearing.org/
Marschark, M. (1997) Raising and Educating A Deaf Child. Oxford University Press.
RESOURCES FOR INTERPRETERS
ASL Dictionary http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
ASL http://www.deafmissions.com/dic/ASLdm.html
John Vickrey Van Cleve and Barry A. Crouch (1989) A place of their own: creating the Deaf community in America. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries (1988) Deaf in America: voices from a culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
National Association of the Deaf- http://www.nad.org/
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf-http://www.rid.org/
RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS
Lending Library- http://www.cfv.org/
Deaf Counseling Advocacy and Referral Agency http://dcara.org/