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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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Explores the strategies and specific skills necessary to facilitate effective family-centered early tinervention in a young child's natural learning environment--with family at home. Professtionals demonstrate how the home visit works and how the tools of the trade are implemented to forge relationships with families and promote family confidence in enhancing their child's development.
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Presents strategies and techniques that can help establish trusting, caring relationships between interventionists and families. It shows working in partnership with parents within the family's routines. It emphasizes the importance of supporting parents with informaiton and feedback that promotes confidence in their ability to help their baby learn to communicate.
3) Wonderstruck
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Tells the tale of two deaf children separated by fifty years. In 1927 New York City, Rose searches for the actress who's life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977 in the Midwest, Ben runs away from home to find his father. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Brian Selznick, which is the predecessor to his screen-adapted novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
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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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Filmed and produced from a deaf child's perspective, this DVD demonstrates to hearing parents, teachers, and other professionals the vital importance of meaningful communication with deaf children. Scenarios from everyday life of a family that has a deaf child are presented both with and without meaningful communication and inclusion. Strategies and suggestions are presented at the end of each situation highlighting the importance of language development...
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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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Katie is an 11-year-old girl who has just moved into the neighborhood and some of the girls on her street want to meet and talk with her. One of the girls knows some sign langugae and Katie's mom, Lyndi, is a professional sign language interpreter. Together they set up a trip to the zoo where they all get to know each other and learn signs of zoo animals. In addition, Lyndi presents a private sign language lesson covering the manual alphabet and...
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Inspired by real-life events, this Oscar-winning short follows Libby, a profoundly deaf child nearing her first day at school. Her emotionally distant, overwhelmed mother and workaholic father seek out a quick fix to make their 'broken' child more equipped to handle the real world.Libby has lived in a world of silence but a fresh-faced social worker Joanne helps Libby transform. A once withdrawn four-year-old suddenly feels connected to the world...
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Teleconference taped from live broadcast from Gallaudet University on Nov. 13, 1996. Panels composed of parents and professionals share strategies on how to increase the literacy skills of deaf and hard of hearing children. Through videotaped demonstrations, viewers will learn how to read aloud to deaf and hard of hearing children using techniques based on current research into how deaf parents read to their children.
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The Montgomery County Public School System present several students who have had successful implantation and experiences with a cochlear implant. A brief overview of the habilitation process required for inital use and success with the implant is discussed including age of implantation, language level, consistent use, educational environment, and parental involvement.
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This two-part tape highlights initial reactions and concerns of parents of children who are deaf, and options for communicating with deaf children. Each of the parents presented had different feelings and made different choices, but all of them saw their children as individuals who could succeed as memebers of families and communities. Provides parents with a starting point for discussiona nd decision making.
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"Anthony Natale hosts this powerful film that communicatesthe reality of child abuse. Four brave and inspiring children tell their stories of physical and sexual abuse, neglect, intervention, and healing. Deaf actors Robert DeMayo and Rosa Lee Gallimore artfully bring these stories to life for a Deaf audience through American Sign Language."--Container.
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Never before has there been a children's show in which the host was deaf. Christy Smith of Survivor 6: The Amazon has always connected with nature and found unlimited ways in which to interact with and enjoy the world around her. Her unique talents enable hearing and deaf children to devleop relationships and effectively bread down communication barriers. This show relies on an outdoor adventure to provide a platform for teaching sign language....
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Four hearing parents of children who are deaf discuss their feelings, experiences, and successful hints in parenting. The topics focus on the importance of parental self esteem and encouragement, advocacy, education, and the IEP. Personal experiences are the basis for the information relayed. Parental involvement in the educational process i sthe overwhelming message of the tape. This tape is recommended for parents of newly-diagnosed deaf and...
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The majority of professional interpreters working within the educational setting feel the pressure of deadlines to improve skills, to achieve national certification and to earn CEUs. The Educational Interpreting Series focuses on these interpreters and provides information and practice in a variety of academic areas. Each video presents spoken information/lecture or ASL presentation then provides two interpreter models which allows one to benefit...
17) Sound and fury
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Follows the story of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technological device, the cochlear implant, that can help a deaf family member hear but may also threaten deaf culture. Some of the family members celebrate the implant as a long overdue cure for deafness while others fear it will destroy their language and way of life.
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Looks at what happened to the Artinian Family after their story captured audiences around the world in the original documentary Sound and Fury. That story focuses on the struggle of a family over the surgical placement of a cochlear implant in Heather, their deaf daughter, and their ultimate decision to reject the idea. In this stand-alone follow-up film, Heather at age nine did get the implant as did her Mother and two younger brothers. Now at...
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Shows the effectiveness of cochlear implants for children by following two sets of twins for three years after implantation. Each set has one deaf twin and one hearing twin. Two of the twins are from the video, "Sound and Fury". The comparison between the deaf and hearing child's language development is shown.
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This DVD is for early childhood teachers, child care providers, and future teachers serving young deaf children. Based on Lynne C. Erting's dissertation "Book sharing the Deaf way: An ethnographic study in a bilingual preschool for Deaf children." This DVD focuses on topics such as scaffolding the development of ASL, emergent literacy, and cognition during book sharing, and translating text into a register more developmentally appropriate and understandable...
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