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Hello, I just found this site while researching my sons hearing loss....I am a hearing mother to a HOH infant due to the gene connexin 26..I have 2 sons my first is 3 whose hearing my 2nd is 19 months old with a severe hearing loss who wears hearing aids and attends an oral school and ASL class 2 days a week. I'm expecting my 3rd child its up in the air...who knows what this child will be maybe hearing or hoh or deaf.....glad to have found this site!!
 
:welcome: to AD!

I was born deaf due to probably the same reasons that caused your son's deafness.

My parents had 2 kids, my brother and I. We were both born with a severe-profound deafness. I went to an oral school all my life not knowing ASL while my brother went to a deaf school knowing ASL. I wish I knew ASL growing up cuz I believe it would have made a difference in my life but now I am fluent in it. That's great that your son is going to ASL classes. :)

Congrats on your 3rd pregnancy! Must be a lot of work to be pregnant with two small ones. I have a 15 month old myself and he is a little cute terror! Yesterday, he got a hold of my glass cup (how?) and smashed it on the floor. Oh boy!

Enjoy posting away here. :)
 
my first is 3 whose hearing my 2nd is 19 months old with a severe hearing loss who wears hearing aids and attends an oral school and ASL class 2 days a week
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WOOHOO!!!! Awesome to hear that some hearing parents realize that both ASL and speech aqquastion isn't mutally exclusive! Is the ASL class a TC style program or more formal class?
Have you joined the American Society for Deaf Children yet? It's a great organization for hearing parents of dhh kids.
 
The oral school my son attends and the ASL classes are seperate...The oral school is one of the best in CA but they dont do ASL, I drive 1 1/2 hours 3 days a week for my baby to go here. alot of the parents are against it.. One mother refuses to use sign for her 2 HOH sons and put them in swimm lessions where they almost drewoned cause he didnt have hearing aids on. the ASL class is exclusively ASL not TC!! There are not good TC programs around here so I choose to do it this way..
 
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The oral school my son attends and the ASL classes are seperate...The oral school is one of the best in CA but they dont do ASL, I drive 1 1/2 hours 3 days a week for my baby to go here. alot of the parents are against it.. One mother refuses to use sign for her 2 HOH sons and put them in swimm lessions where they almost drewoned cause he didnt have hearing aids on. the ASL class is exclusively ASL not TC!! There are not good TC programs around here so I choose to do it this way..
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Why are the parents against ASL? I really do not understand that at all. It saddens me cuz it doesnt hurt the child to do both and the child has the advantage of both languages at an early age.

I teach at a deaf school which uses ASL as the primary language through the air and many of the children's parents still dont know any signs. It doesnt make sense.
 
Oh yes, I understand. A lot of hearing parents say that one of the things that drives them away from a TC program is that, it doesn't concentrate enough on speech. It's good that you're doing it that way. I think the gross majority of dhh kids need the specialized schooling early on. That way they can have a base of education, that most public schools really can't offer. I'm surprised thou, that going to a Sign/TC program isn't a good idear. Usually their Early Intervention programs are wicked good!(I know that the academic programs aren't too advanced) Plus I mean that way your son could meet other dhh Signers. .......Just an idear. I don't really know your sitution......just throwing an idear out there! You should join the American Society for Deaf Children. http://www.deafchildren.org/.....they can give you all sorts of good idears and resources and things!
Also join the Parent-deaf-hh list. http://listserv.kent.edu/archives/parentdeaf-hh.html......Both ASDC and Parent dhh (as well as here!) is a lot more Sign friendly then the other resources out there!
 
Hello and welcome to Alldeaf! Glad you're happy to have found this site and hopefully you'll truly enjoy your stay here as well. Also, good to see you're doing all you can for your son...which one day as he's older, he'll be forever grateful for the things you have done. Likewise, I'm forever grateful and thankful for all the things my own mother had done. :)

Have a great day! :wave:






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:welcome: to Alldeaf! Have fun browsing and posting! :)
 
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