15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
3/05/2012 | 11:05 AM - 11:35 AM | Jeffersonian/ Knickerbocker | 6 - Follow-up, Tracking and Data Management
Raising a Successful Deaf Child the Bilingual Way
Martin Dale-Hench, now 24, is a successful adult by most any standard. He is a college graduate (Magna Cum Laude; major: English), a world traveler, multi-lingual, self-supporting, self-confident, and a gentle and kind human being.
Martin was diagnosed as having a profound hearing loss at age one. His parents will discuss the steps they took in Martin's early life to ensure he had every possible advantage for success: academically, socially, and emotionally.
The parents' foci were early language acquisition, a total acceptance of his deafness, reading and writing, and assisting him in building relationships with both deaf and hearing communities.
- 1) Understand the importance early language acquisition is for the deaf child. 2) Understand a successful way of providing early language 3)Understand the importance of English for a deaf child 4) Learn a successful method of teaching English to a deaf child 4)Understand how to lay the foundation for good mental health in your deaf child
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Presenters/Authors
Chris Hench
(), none, dalehench@ameritech.net;
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Peter Dale
(Co-Presenter), none, dalehench@ameritech.net;
Peter Dale and Chris Hench are parents of a child with profound deafness.
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