Here's your chance to vote in the 2010 Pepsi Challenge and vote for your favorite idea on who could could use a $250,000 grant. Voting ends on December 31, 2010. So, go ahead and vote! And maybe a chance to help out 175 deaf kids!
Here are the goals should John Tracy Clinic get the award:
* Provide significant funding for one year of preschool services
* Teach parents how to advocate for their deaf child's future
* Help 175 deaf children learn spoken language
12 comments:
Jeez...you support oral method?? Then why the hell are you signing? the fact is oral method failed! I will not vote for it.
Hey, anony @10:07 AM:
Yes, I support auditory-oral method. Watch the videos! Meet the kids. They are doing well. You'd be surprised. Plus, I've met parents who do include signing as well with their kids. So, that's good, too.
Today's oral-auditory methods are much improved, require parents to participate and contribute with the oral-auditory therapy. This isn't some 60s/70s/80s oral training. Technology and better therapy methodologies are seeing more successes with these kids.
Heck, I'm even a success and I started speech therapy in the late 1960s!
Anony,
Your comment is an ignorant one.
If you thought that non-speakers don't support oral method, think again. I don't speak but yet I support oral method as well as any other options. In short, I support whatever works for each person. If oral method works for somebody then we should be jumping with joy ane congratulate them for their success.
And you don't? Are you angry and disappointed because you can't speak? You want to punish somebody for what you're unable to do? Is that it?
If so, you're so inhumane.
I will not vote for it.
Excuse me, this video was related to John Tracy Clinic. Watching those kids learning how to speak is something! It is so difficult to speak English even for Hearing kids. I know that for a fact because when I am talking to my son, he does have some difficulties speaking the words correctly. For example, he struggles with 2nd p after he says pumpkin. Interesting enough, he could say pump by itself, but when added the word kin into pump. He struggles. It is the same as for popcorn. He struggles with the 2nd p, too. Hmm.... Therefore, with those kids being able to speak, I am impressed with their ability. However, I do acknowledge and experienced seeing kids can not speak the words clearly nor not at all. Each individual has its own adaptation of what they can do in real life. Thank you.
WisDeaf,
Sometimes hearing kids of Deaf parents do pick up some speaking difficulties and such because they hear what the parents say. This could be an issue of not hanging around with enough hearing people (hearing friends, hearing grandparents, etc) in the beginning. Even if they have problems early on it usually becomes self-correcting as they grow older.
Speech therapy requires the participation of both parents and therapists to make it work.
Mike,
It is true that Hearing children with Deaf parents do have difficulty picking up the spoken words if they are not around with the Hearing society often. My son, on the other hand, has been around with the hearing society for majority of the time while I am working. So he spends several hours with hearing kids, teachers, and other adults in daycare and school. It is interesting to see how difficult it is for him to speak those words. I do agree that it will get better in the long run since he will correct himself just like other normal hearing kids with Deaf parents. :)
anony @8:25AM,
So what? Why are you telling me this? Currently JTC is at 37th place out of 308 entries.
I voted for it, thanks to Anony's ignorance.
I voted for it too! Thank you for teaching me about the John Tracy Clinic. If Informed Parents choose to seek this communication method for their child, then that is the parents choice, no one should deny parents that informed choice...right? hmmm...
good! that is why asl is absolutely useless so i voted. :)
thanks mike!
Well, ASL certainly does not help with the spoken language and the actual oral training development just as ASL does not help a person sing with his/her voices. It's the actual exercise that works.....not the signing.
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