Pipecleaner Dreams

I know that it is often very difficult for our kids with severe disabilities to express their emotions in the usual ways. As parents, we le...

I found this on YouTube and just had to share. I don't believe it is ASL, but it is something very similar. I just like the easy flow ...

Since Ronnie joined our family, we have had lots of situations, mostly medical, in which an interpreter is present. It's always interes...

Can you hear with your skin? Or perhaps see with your ears? Researchers at MIT think so. Check out this article – it’s pretty short – but...

Back in early 2007, I wrote about using a technique called Tadoma as one more weapon in Ashley’s communication arsenal. Though almost neve...

Ashley has been a student in our school district for 10 years. And for 10 years I have had to fight to get her the support she needed to ap...

I've always been a mother who believes in open adoption. I have always believed that a child can never have enough people who love them...

My local news station ran a great story this morning about a group of New York school children learning sign language after school. I tried...

One of the blogs I visit on a fairly regular basis is Ka’lalau’s Korner , written by Carl Schroeder. The tag line on the blog says “Ka’lala...