Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
Start: 2025-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Location: Branson, MO

Tagged: deaf, sign language

This topic has 7 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 8 months ago by thecornerstoneacademy.

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April 17, 2017 at 6:57 pm
Rebecca
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We just found out our newly adopted daughter is profoundly deaf. I have been a Charlotte Mason “Mom” for years. Does anyone else have a deaf student? I will blaze a trail, if I have to, but hope to find some peers here!! Becka g. (Mother of 6 precious whole individuals)
April 18, 2017 at 8:19 am
retrofam
Participant
I don’t have a child who is hearing impaired, but we are part of the deaf culture for two reasons. My daughter is an ASL interpreter at church, and I am slowly losing my hearing.
I will share a few links, and let me know if you have more questions.
http://a2zhomeschooling.com/concerns_homeschooling/homeschooling_deaf_children/
Some of the groups they mention are no longer there.
Deaf-fininglife.blogspot.com is a nice blog.
Signbank.org may be helpful.

April 18, 2017 at 10:05 am
Rebecca
Participant
Dear Retrofam,
I have thoroughly enjoyed exhausting all the links and read so many articles in the sites you shared. I am deeply thankful!! I so appreciate your time!
I am so excited there is at least one other family out there!
Do you have specific ideas of a book I can teach her to read with? I have always taught phonetically and she is a book worm. I would love to be ready for when she is.
Teaching her to read is my Biggest concern!
Becka
April 18, 2017 at 10:42 am
mrsmccardell
Participant
My dd10 has mild-moderate hearing loss…with certain pitches. I don’t use anything particular at this point but it’s on my radar. We have a deaf-ministry at church and it’s beautiful watching the women sign with such passion.
April 19, 2017 at 8:33 am
retrofam
Participant
Do you know sign language and does she? That is the first step. ASL will be her native language, and she will learn English as a second language. See the link below.
https://ttaconline.org/instructional-strategies-students-deaf-hard-of-hearing
Here is a search I did that brought up books on how to teach deaf children. Scroll down to the images.
https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&client=ms-android-verizon&ei=mjb2WMn2DezbjwSv5ZjADQ&q=child+1st+deaf+students&oq=child+1st+deaf&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.1.0.35i39k1.96767.98377.0.99701.10.10.0.0.0.0.165.1157.0j9.9.0….0…1.1.64.mobile-gws-serp..1.9.1146.YwMsbs0nJk4
For reading I would use Child 1st. Child1st.com, along with Visual Phonics. Child1st is very visual and incorporates body movements. You could substitute ASL signs for the body movements.
Visual Phonics is a program for schools, and they do not sell to homeschools. I used parts of it for my dd who liked to sign and was having reading troubles. I printed out the photo of the wall chart. Here is the link. Scroll down to the wall chart.
http://seethesound.org/materials.html
I watched You Tube videos on Visual Phonics to learn how to teach the signs and learn their chant/song.
There were some other sounds not on the chart, so my dd16, the interpreter, and I made up our own pictures and signs for those.
I coded a few readers in pencil with the Visual Phonics symbols.
We didn’t use it for long, because dd7 at the time lost interest.
My dd17 has an ASL story book called Sleeping Beauty with selected sentences in American Sign Language. Kendall Green Publications, Gallaudet University Press. There are more books listed in the back. It would be nice once ASL is in place.
One of the links said to read the same story over and over. Five in a Row and Before Five in a Row would be good for that.
Let me know if you have more questions.
May 9, 2017 at 8:50 am
retrofam
Participant
Silentblessings.org has resources for deaf families, including a weekly children’s tv show.
I found a link to a post where Sonya talks about it.
https://simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/asl-online-videos-from-deaf-missions/
May 10, 2017 at 8:35 pm
Sonya Shafer
Moderator
I had the opportunity to chat with a deaf mama at a recent convention. She mentioned that she “read aloud” to her children by reading the book herself and interpreting the chapter into ASL as she went along. I realize that is a different situation from yours, but I wonder if it might be a potential option during the time while your daughter is learning how to read for herself. Just thought I’d mention it.
August 5, 2017 at 11:41 am
thecornerstoneacademy
Participant
Hello! I am a mama to four children, my youngest is Deaf, she is 10 years old and we adopted her from Ukraine 7 years ago. She will be starting Form 1A this coming school year. I am still learning my way around, but she is making progress. I am going to look through the links above. I have two Deaf interpreters from DOOR International who come to my home 2-3 days/week to teach my daughter in the areas of reading, writing, science, history, Bible, and vocabulary, all done with ASL. They are a married couple, the husband is Deaf, and the wife is hearing. We use a reading program “Reading Mastery” which has been great. We use narration for all her subjects. My three older children (and myself) have been and still are learning ASL as their foreign language requirement. This is a big plus.
Please let me know if you are looking for any other support. We live in Wake Forest, NC.
Blessings! Michele Mastroianni