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My name is Travis, i am hearing but have a 8 year old with severe/profound loss since birth. I have been signing for about 7 years but by watching you would guess 7 days, haha.

I look forward to meeting you all and hopefully will find a way to become a better signer.
 
Welcome.

Enjoy your time to reading some of good threads in several sections.

Happy posting. :)
 
thanks for the sign info. What i was really hoping for and I may need to try to set this up myself. Bare with me on this it's kinda complicated. I was hoping there was a resource or may have to start one where people could learn to sign from volunteers or whatever online. It would be a free thing, using something like skype to allow people to view and chat and ask questions. That type of thing. So far i haven't found anything. Would be like a users helping users type of deal
 
umwhat said:
thanks for the sign info. What i was really hoping for and I may need to try to set this up myself. Bare with me on this it's kinda complicated. I was hoping there was a resource or may have to start one where people could learn to sign from volunteers or whatever online. It would be a free thing, using something like skype to allow people to view and chat and ask questions. That type of thing. So far i haven't found anything. Would be like a users helping users type of deal
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Don't know of anything like that. I know a couple of us here viedo chat with each other on instant messenger or mostly video phones.

I have a P3 from Purple that was free and only requires a webcam and high-speed internet.
 
yeah i haven't found anything yet. maybe after being here for a while I will get brave and try the video chat stuff to see how it works out. I'm pretty shy and my signing is really bad, haha
 
umwhat said:
yeah i haven't found anything yet. maybe after being here for a while I will get brave and try the video chat stuff to see how it works out. I'm pretty shy and my signing is really bad, haha
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I am late-deafened and am just larning ASL. I lost my hearing 3 years ago after being hoh my whole life (43 years hoh and 3 total deaf). Wht I love about the P3 in that if I can't sign something, I can use text to get my meaning across.

I am very self-concious about my signing, but I have been making videos (2 or 3 small ones) at home to get more comfortable. In class, they tell you to sign in a mirror to get used to seeing the ASL, but I tend to giggle and crack up laughing at myself, so if I do a video and tell myself that I have to take it to class, I find I am serious about it and don't laugh or giggle.
 
i have signed in a class setting and my 8 year old. We have signed in front of his class mates and everything else. He is just so far ahead of me, he daddys(what I call dumbing down, lol) his sign for me but he still is way advanced. He started basketball a few weeks ago and this past saturday was his first game. I was trying my best to interpret for him but man.....I think i was still more lost than he was lol
 
umwhat said:
i have signed in a class setting and my 8 year old. We have signed in front of his class mates and everything else. He is just so far ahead of me, he daddys(what I call dumbing down, lol) his sign for me but he still is way advanced. He started basketball a few weeks ago and this past saturday was his first game. I was trying my best to interpret for him but man.....I think i was still more lost than he was lol
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Where are you? Probably we can find local resources for you if we know.

Have you asked at your son's school?
 
we are in a tiny colorado town called Ignacio which is about 15 miles sw of Durango, CO. The school has been great and his interpreter was coming out to the house to work with us until about a month ago. The school dist was paying for her to come and cannot afford it more that is why i'm looking at alternatives
 
umwhat said:
we are in a tiny colorado town called Ignacio which is about 15 miles sw of Durango, CO. The school has been great and his interpreter was coming out to the house to work with us until about a month ago. The school dist was paying for her to come and cannot afford it more that is why i'm looking at alternatives
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I almost got a job at Ignacio - The interpreter issue was something that I had to consider.

I am from Boulder.

Welcome.
 
:welcome: to AD! Have you tried contacting Deaf organizations to get together with other parents of deaf children or even deaf adults?
 
posts from hell said:
I almost got a job at Ignacio - The interpreter issue was something that I had to consider.

I am from Boulder.

Welcome.
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Nice, we have a great interpreter couldn't ask for more from her. We are originally from Greeley but when they blew up the d/hh program there we decided that anywhere we went would be about the same as far as schools go and we couldn't have gotten luckier with what we have here. The county side is not so nice but the school has been great.
 
umwhat said:
Nice, we have a great interpreter couldn't ask for more from her. We are originally from Greeley but when they blew up the d/hh program there we decided that anywhere we went would be about the same as far as schools go and we couldn't have gotten luckier with what we have here. The county side is not so nice but the school has been great.
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Is it a public school with a strong deaf/hoh program?
 
PFH might be a better help than me, but here I go:

(I love to search for websites. :giggle:)

Colorado Association of the Deaf: Regions
Colorado Assiciation of the Deaf

http://www.handsandvoices.org/pdf/RGuide05.pdf
Colorado Resource guide, a PDF 66 page document

Colorado Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Colorado Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Welcome to the Center for Independence — Center for Independence
Center for Independence

Hope this helps a little. I tried to find something for a deaf meet-up, but no such luck. Maybe PFH will have something. (Oh, PFH - calling on PFH!!)
 
shel90 said:
Is it a public school with a strong deaf/hoh program?
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The school we are at now is a public school and my son and his interpreter make up the d/hoh program, haha

His old school was a charter school that housed the districts program but it all got changed around
 
:welcome: to AllDeaf forum. I am glad that your son is getting the full toolbox or have a Deaf program with ASL. He need to know what is going on in the classroom and that will help him boost up his grade better than D or F. It did happen to me when I was in elementary and high school with no Deaf program which mean no sign language and notetaker. I did not had a good grades. This was way back in 1950 to 1960. We would like to see more deaf children using ASL in the school settings.

Have fun reading and posting all the threads here. See you around here. :wave:
 
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