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Library Services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
The Library Services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing is a statewide special library dedicated to meeting the information and accessibility needs of the deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind communities, as well as meeting the information needs about hearing loss to all Tennesseans.
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This DVD helps a deaf child's parents choose an appropriate communication approach for their whole family. Experts and parents who made these choices discuss four options: auditory/verbal, American Sign Language, auditory/oral, total communication. This information will assist parents, service providers, and college students to understand that there is no "right way" of communicating with deaf children that will meet the needs of all families. ...
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When deaf and hard of hearing people communicate with each other, they use strategies that make sense visually. This material presents some of the differences encountered when communicating in a way that makes visual sense -- things that differ when one is trying to make sense in spoken English. The goal is to assist in communicating more effectively with a deaf or hard of hearing child regardless of communication methodology used. A section explaining...
5) Name signs
6) Color
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More Signing for Sense uses an accompanying workbook and the DVD to build on the foundation presented in Signing for Sense. It is recommended that the two be used sequentailly. This presentation will reinforce methods of choosing signs that organize information visually. The goal is to help communicate more effectively with a deaf or hard of hearing child by making visual sense regardless of communication methodology used.
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Part of the Deaf Mentor Project and produced by the SKI-HI Institute, this video has information that can be used to provide hearing families of young deaf children practice in American Sign Language and insight into the Deaf community and Deaf culture. It's focus is to establish a bilingual-bicultural environment in the home.
9) Family
10) Alphabet
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Many families want the best of everything for their deaf child. To them that means the best of both the deaf and hearing worlds including American Sign Language and Egnlish and particpation in both the Deaf and Hearing cultures. More and more hearing parents are understanding the improtance of early communication for their child because of their hearing loss. Information is provided on this DVD so that parents can combine the two languages and...
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This tape explores communication options for young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. It discusses various aural-oral communication approaches and visual communication options (ASL and Manually Coded English) and bilingualism. Featured in the tapes are families who use each method of communication. The tape can be especially useful for parent advisors as they discuss communication options with families.
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"The authors provide practitioners with key milestones considered fundamental to understanding adolescents with hearing loss as well as a pedagogical foundation and general intervention strategies for both planning and direct face-to-face (re)habilitation with adolescents. The authors summarize important issues related to the spoken language development of adolescents, focus on aspects of communication that are functionally relevant to adolescents...
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"Language Learning in Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, 2nd Edition: Theory to Classroom Practice is the long-awaited revision of the only textbook on primary language instruction written with classroom teachers of deaf and hard-of-hearing children (TODs) in mind. It builds on the work of the previous version while providing the reader with access to the entire first version on a supplemental website. An important feature of this book is...
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