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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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"Deaf children are not hearing children who can't hear, and having a deaf child is not analogous to having a hearing child who can't hear. Beyond any specific effects of hearing loss, deaf children are far more diverse than their hearing age-mates. A lack of access to language, limited incidental learning and social interactions, as well as the possibility of secondary disabilities, mean that deaf children face a variety of challenges in language,...
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"A powerful account of one father's journey through unimaginable grief, offering readers a new vision for how to more actively and fully mourn profound loss. When Colin Campbell's two teenage children were killed by a drunk driver, he was thrown headlong into a grief so deep he felt he might lose his mind. As he began to process his grief, he realized that much of the common wisdom about coping with loss was unhelpful--that it is a private and mysterious...
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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.
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"My first baby signs teaches basic signs that provide families with a way to communicate before babies can talk at all. The picture book format keeps the learning fun while introducing over 40 key American Sign Language (ASL) signs in context -- each with their own visual and written guide. Your little one will learn to express their needs, wants, and frustrations with simple gestures -- and you will understand them better."--Back cover.
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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.
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