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"My parents thought it was important to eat together and talk together."

More reading

  • Jamaica Association for the Deaf: the impact of deafness on the family.

Scientific literature

  • Delia Wallis, Carol Musselman, Sherri MacKay (2004), Hearing Mothers and Their Deaf Children: The Relationship between Early, Ongoing Mode Match and Subsequent Mental Health Functioning in Adolescence. In: Journal of Deaf studies and Deaf education, 9, 2-14.
Nimo Hersi
Sign language at home
"We often have the computer turned on: the archives of the Handtheater has lots of fun things for the children."
"My children know they have to use sign language with me."
"Those Lotte & Max DVDs are amazing, for both parents and children. They help you learn really quickly."
"Guus sometimes helps Sam if he doesn't sign something correctly."
"Signing has gotten better over the years."
Should you even want to learn to sign as a parent, or can your child learn from other deaf people as well?
"They can really babble together in sign language."
Do children learn sign language if their parents use Sign-supported Dutch?
"I sing Fabian a lullaby using signs, and I noticed that helped me learn signs as well."
"If I don't know a certain sign, I ask my son."
"I do think signing at home is going to be important to Fabian."
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