Seeing The Beauty of Language With Your Hands
Life is a journey that leads you down paths to discover new things. These paths are there to teach you life lessons and possibly awaken a passion in you that you did not know existed. One of my paths blessed me with a Deaf child, which lead me down another path of learning how to parent a Deaf child in a hearing world. Raising a child is hard, but raising a Deaf child in a house with all hearing people can have its challenges. As a parent you want what is best for your child, learning how to communicate using American Sign Language benefits your child's development in an educational setting and allows them to communicate within the household comfortably. Through my experience, education in Deaf Culture, American Sign Language, and volunteer work within the Deaf community; I would like to use what I have learned to educate further, be a support system, and a resource to other hearing parents of Deaf children.