Month: October 2014
HALLOWEEN TIPS FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
-
Before You Plan Your Halloween Fun
-
How to Make a Halloween Costume for a Child with Sensory Integration Dysfunction
-
Halloween Costumes for Kids in Wheelchairs
-
How to Make an Emergency Last-Minute Costume
-
Halloween on a Restricted Diet
-
Halloween “Trick or Treat” Cards and Sign
-
Treats Too Tricky? Try Some Sweet Charity
-
12 Ways to Use Up Halloween Candy
-
How Do You Celebrate Halloween With a Child With Special Needs?
-
Halloween With Special Needs: Tell Your Scariest Story
-
What Do You Do With Leftover Candy?
Love in the Time of Chronic Illness
When should you disclose medical conditions to a date? When is illness too much for a relationship to survive?
One major issue chronically ill people face in dating is disclosure. The question of when to share the illness with a prospective partner fills online forums, videos, articles, blogs, conferences, and discussions. Sharing too soon may scare the person off and sharing too late may lead to a lack of trust.
Important Sigyn’s lesson : people who care the most are also those who suffer the most.
#DidYouKnow #Deaf #DeafAwareness #education #SignLanguage #advocacy #NMSCares
This is actually sadly relevant. I had a lecture this summer about sign languages and Deaf culture and when I was finished, one hearing girl from the audience stayed behind to ask me some more question.
She asked me: “And your parents use sign language, right?” Like it was the most obvious thing in the world and why is she even asking this, of course my parents must know sign language.
“No… They don’t, actually.”
“And how do you communicate, then?”
“Talking?”
“But… isn’t that complicated for you?”
“It is, sometimes.”
“They probably didn’t have time for it…” she said. And I haven’t the heart to tell her that my father was offered sign language courses several times, that I offered to teach them some signs and that they always refused.
But I did told her: “It is not that rare. Most of deaf people I know have hearing parents who don’t sign.”
It’s the sad truth. People are willing to pay for surgeries to “repair” their children, but they are not willing to learn something to communicate with them.
i’d like to add onto this with my own personal experience, too. i was born hearing, but as soon as i was diagnosed as HoH, my parents didn’t do anything to learn ASL. they were quick to put me in classes, but they wouldn’t when i suggested to them that they take the classes with me so that we could learn.
i’ve tried to teach my mom how to sign numerous times, but she always says that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” to which i tell her that she can learn, she just doesn’t want to. which is true. neither of my parents want to learn how to sign, but they want me to be able to hear perfectly so they don’t have to repeat themselves.
little do they know that their frustration with me not being able to hear them would be solved if they would just learn how to sign. maybe signing something to me once instead of repeating themselves four times and then getting mad would be more beneficial.
I’m absolutely shocked at this, it’s never crossed my mind that many parents wouldn’t even try to meet their hard of hearing kids halfway.
Moderns all too often seem to read into Her story passivity, victim-hood, and a regrettable lack of agency. I truly do not know whether this is because She demonstrated these arguably most Heathen of virtues in defense of Loki, who is a very controversial figure in the modern community, because we know nothing else of Her story via the lore, or because She isn’t depicted as bold, brash, or sexually independent (like Freya). I would hate to think that Her strength, Her loyalty, Her constancy are all too often overlooked perhaps because these things are exercised primarily in the enclosure of Her domestic sphere.
Request for carolinebingley1991 Alyssa Sutherland as Sigyn
Living with mental illness means that on some days it will be even harder to cope and you might not be able to explain why. It could be because you havent slept enough, because a smell reminded you of feeling sad, or for no reason at all.
This is a reminder that we dont have to justify our feelings or abilities to anyone, just do whats needed to make it to the next day.
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers (via hqlines)
Holding the Bowl 