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Name: John Egbert
Affiliation: Deaf Bilingual Coalition
John Egbert was born deaf (90 db) to hearing parents in 1947. His parents, like many hearing parents, wanted him to learn to speak so he was introduced to speech therapy at a young age and became very proficient;
Today, if you were to sit and talk with him for half an hour, you would not realize that he is deaf. John Egbert is unique in that manner. Less than 1-2% of the deaf population can speak this clearly.
He is an author and wrote a suspense-drive novel, MindField.
Mr. Egbert is married and has two grown children, Stella and Clyde, both of whom are deaf. Stella is an elementary principal at Texas School for the Deaf in Austin and Clyde is a computer lab technician, also at Texas School for the Deaf as well. His wife, Shirley (Frelich) is a teacher at the University of Minnesota.
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Name: John Egbert
Affiliation: Deaf Bilingual Coalition
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How Oral Deaf Children Navigate Through Hearing Communities |
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6-Family Issues
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Oral Deaf, Deaf mentorship, Language Acquisition |
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Track: Early Intervention
Affiliations: Deaf Bilingual Coalition
Presenter: John Egbert, Author of MindField
Presentation Format: Breakout session
Desired Length: 60 minutes
How Oral Deaf Children Navigate Through Hearing Communities
In this presentation, John Egbert will explain his experience growing up as an oral deaf child in a hearing family and how he was able to navigate his environment to understand people speaking. He will answer many questions regarding reading lips, trying to understanding different accents and interacting with hearing people. He will explain how hearing devices assisted him in the hearing society. He will also explain what it was like to learn American Sign Language at the age of 18 and the impact it made on the rest of his life. It is anticipated that the information that is shared will have an impact on the importance of Deaf mentorship in training programs for doctors, speech pathologists, and audiologists along with training for those that work with families in the Early Intervention process.
Key Words: Oral Deaf, Deaf Mentorship, Language Acquisition |
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