From Bystander to Believer: My journey as a Hearing Mother
I am a hearing wife of a Deaf man and a hearing mother of four children, three of whom are […]
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Category: Thoughts on Parenting a Deaf Child
The “Letting Go” Moments of Parenthood
When my first child was born, I wasn’t prepared for the experience of my heart being wrenched out during […]
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Rhonda Bergsma: And This Was the Easy Part
It was a frosty morning that April in 1982, the middle of the month– you’d think it would be warming […]
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Pieces of the Puzzle: Jaden’s Story
At birth Jaden had a hearing test like all newborns in our state and he failed; two weeks later he […]
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Tabby Belhorn: There’s Room for Everyone On Our Path
Thirteen years ago I was grieving the loss of having a child that could hear. My daughter had just been diagnosed […]
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ASL at the Super Bowl: A Mother’s Request
Dear CBS: I write to you as the hearing mother to my 4-year-old daughter Sarah who is Deaf. On Sunday […]
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Different Perspectives on Raising a Deaf Child
Rachel Kolb is a Stanford graduate and Rhodes scholar who is currently pursuing a PhD in English literature at Emory […]
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Rocky Mountain Deaf Theatre’s “Compelling” production of SILENT SALZBURG
Rocky Mountain Deaf Theatre’s “Compelling” production of SILENT SALZBURG by Richard Medugno My full-length play Silent Salzburg tells the story of […]
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Letting Go, The Hardest Part of Parenting
From the moment our kids are born, our parenting journey is one of letting go. Do you remember the first […]
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Teresa Kazemir: The Job of Parenting is Never Quite Finished
Our oldest son is almost 20 – gone are the years of feeding his brain with language, modeling and teaching […]
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