Selected Articles from the 2024 Fall Edition
Amptify – Pilot Program
Amptify’s program utilizes interactive video games designed to teach strong listening skills, cognitive skills, advocacy, and education regarding hearing loss.
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Harnessing Imaging Tech to Understand Brain Development
Taken together, these studies suggest that neuroimaging may hold promise in helping us understand the underlying brain processes that give rise to the variability in behavioral and academic outcomes commonly seen in children with hearing loss.
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A Glimpse of My World as a DHH Teen
I’m 14 years old and attending ninth grade. I live with my mom, dad, and little brother, AJ, in Columbia, South Carolina. I take honors classes, play the double bass in orchestra, and love hanging out with friends.
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A Father Looks Back
Anyone who has kids knows they don’t come with instructions. And no two are alike. All of us do the best we can, figuring it out as we go, one day at a time.
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Filling the Disability Representation Gap
Before I was a Deaf, queer, and Disabled author, I was a Deaf, queer, and Disabled reader. For years after I unexpectedly became Deaf, my solace was found in stories…
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Deaf in the Christian Church
Growing up, I saw few DHH church leaders in my community. When I attended the University of Minnesota, I was involved as a leader within a campus ministry with interpreters.
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Never Give Up
We adopted our son when he was 18 and he is now 25. He is thrice-exceptional as a Deaf, autistic and gifted young adult. Eli was initially adopted from China when he was eight years old by another family.
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Baseball Clinic with the Minnesota Twins
The Twins trainers were there to teach the kids, and Deaf Equity provided what seemed like tons of interpreters and Deaf/Hard of hearing and Deafblind adult role models.
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Honoring Leeanne Seaver
Since the early days of the evolution to parent-driven/family-centered practices, Leeanne has shaped and given voice to the critical role of parents in our journey to support and educate deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children.
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International Advocacy: Soccer in Spain
My youngest primarily communicates through sign while my oldest can code switch between spoken English and ASL and he can lip read and hear spoken English
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