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By Rachel Berman-Kobylarz, MA (she/her) Principal Lecturer - Northeastern University, Boston I was born Deaf in Las Vegas to a hearing family. At the time, we didn’t know why I was Deaf. Years later we learned it was genetic, Connexin 26 but like many families, mine had to make decisions before having all the information. Deaf education programs weren’t very strong then, so my parents chose to mainstream me. I was also a late diagnosis and language English learner but eventually caught...

By: Ashley Cameron From IFSP (Individual Family Service Plan) to IEP (Individualized Education Plan), it’s a process in itself — never mind the choices of “where will my child access the curriculum best.” When my husband and I started thinking about the transition from Early Intervention (EI) to preschool at age three, my first thought was: how will I process sending my little guy to full-time preschool? Our son was born with bilateral sensorineural profound hearing. He received bilateral...

By: Claire Miller , CCC-SLP, NIC It’s fair to say that the parents of many deaf babies have already felt thrown for a loop. Over 90% of deaf babies are born to hearing parents, the vast majority have never even met a deaf person before. Nothing during pregnancy prepares a parent for unexpected news of any kind, let alone the low incidence diagnosis of deafness.  With that new diagnosis comes a revolving door of professionals – audiologists, speech-language pathologists (SLP), early...