Deaf & HH Adults, Thoughts on Parenting a Deaf Child

Jess Jacobsen-Buckley: The Impact of Positive Role Models for my Daughter

November 10, 2014

I couldn’t shake the feeling there was something “wrong” with my daughter throughout my entire pregnancy. The ultrasounds and tests came back normal, but I still felt a nagging dread....

Deaf & HH Adults

Olivier Jeannel: Three Criteria of Success in Growing Up Deaf

October 7, 2014

Dear readers, I’m honored to be able to put in a guest post, at Karen’s request. Karen and I exchanged by Skype recently and we discovered we shared some common...

Deaf & HH Adults

Kim Calabretta: Keeping in Touch with Someone Who Made a Difference

September 30, 2014

Growing up in New York , I had no real connection or knowledge of hearing loss, other than seeing students from Lexington School for the Deaf stroll down my block...

Deaf & HH Adults, Family Support

I Am Not the Sum of My Communication Choice

September 9, 2014

If you turn on the TV in the wee hours the morning you will find me barefoot waterskiing in an infomercial called Life Recharged. In the infomercial, there is no...

Deaf & HH Adults

Reflecting on Life as a Hard of Hearing Adult

August 25, 2014

Lately, I have been reflecting on my life as a hard of hearing adult. It’s a new world for me because I have been in a period of transition from...

Deaf & HH Adults

The Importance of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adults on the Parenting Journey

July 9, 2014

“I want to be a fireman, Mom.” At one of our Illinois Hands & Voices parent meetings, a mom shared a conversation she had with her five-year-old son during bedtime...

Deaf & HH Adults

D-Pan: Empowering Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth through Music Videos

March 24, 2014

Empowering Youth through Music Videos by Mark Levin, D-PAN There was a noticeable difference between the first and last day in all the students that attended our D-PAN workshop last...

Deaf & HH Adults

The Parenting Side: Raising Derrick Coleman

February 2, 2014

  “They gave up on me… Told me I should just quit… They didn’t call my name. Told me it was over. But I’ve been deaf since I was three–I...

Deaf & HH Adults

Derrick Coleman, the First Deaf Super Bowl Football Player

January 22, 2014

There’s a lot of buzz going around since Duracell released a commercial featuring Derrick Coleman, a deaf football player on the Seattle Seahawks team.  Now that the Seahawks are going...

Deaf & HH Adults

Sound and Fury, Heather Artinian Today

December 12, 2013

In October 2000, the film “Sound and Fury” was released and shown in film festivals around the United States . The story of two brothers in an extended third generation...