Ron discusses dealing with a medical issue related to his son and some unwanted medical advice from the doctor. Experience Related to the Medical Field Ron: Hi and good afternoon, I’m Ron Symansky, a father of three adopted children through international adoptions. I’d like to share one of my experiences related to the medical field. My oldest son had a …
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Sep
2019
Adoption: A Deaf Adoptive Parent, Kym’s Story
By: Deaf Counseling Center
Category: ADHD, Adoption, Counseling, Deaf, Health, Medical, Mental Health, Parenting/Families, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy, Videos
Tags: Adoption, counseling, Deaf, Deaf Counseling, Deaf Counseling Center, Deaf Therapy, Medical, therapy, Video
Adoption and the Medical Community Hi, I’m Kym Symansky. I’m the mother of three children through international adoption. I want to share my experience with adoption, particularly with the medical community. When our children came home, I felt like they were my children, 500% mine, even though they did not come from my womb. They are children who came from …
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Sep
2019
Knitting as therapy Knitting offers many wonderful therapeutic benefits. Nettie has plenty to teach us. Celebrate Neurodiversity Nettie is sitting at a table, smiling and holding a sign that says “#CelebrateNeurodiversity”. Nettie signs: “I’m happy. I enjoy knitting. I’m good at this. It’s fun!” Scenes of Nettie knitting and holding up a completed piece of work. Resources: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/the-health-benefits-of-knitting/?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=A308352D26B05D72CD4A2DC230A1C91F&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL https://deafcounseling.com/neurodiversity-ulualos-home-depot-job-story/
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2019
Right support and Environment lead to success A Deaf woman, Ulualo, of Home Depot takes pride in her job and demonstrates that everyone with neurodiversity can make a contribution, with the right support and in the right environment. Celebrate Neurodiversity Ulualo is signing: #CelebrateNeurodiversity. I’m special and I have a gift. I work here at Home Depot. I’m an expert …
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Sep
2019
Important Autism Lesson Mother Learned Raising a son with autism: Tammy Jo, parent of a Deaf child with autism, shares a story about raising her son. Through this important lesson she learned, we can all benefit and increase our understanding of how to interact with children with autism. Son Identifying his Autism: Hi, my name is Tammy Ellis. I would …
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Sep
2019
Neurodiversity: Toni’s ADHD Story
By: Deaf Counseling Center
Category: ADHD, Deaf, Mental Health, Neurodiversity, Therapy, Videos
Tags: ASL, counseling, Deaf, National Deaf Therapy, therapy
Neurodiversity: As part of DCC’s spotlight on neurodiversity, Toni shares her struggles with ADHD, which is prevalent in 4.4% of the US population. Dealing with ADHD: Hello! I’m Toni. I want to talk a little about ADHD/Neurodiversity, which I have. When I was first diagnosed with ADHD, I remember everything clicking in my mind and thinking, “Ohhh, that explains all …
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Aug
2019
Deaf Parent Raising Children with Autism
By: Deaf Counseling Center
Category: Accommodation, Autism, Children, Counseling, Deaf, Mental Health, Therapy, Videos
Tags: autism, counseling, Deaf, Online Counseling, Virtual Counseling
As part of our Neurodiversity video series, Bobba shares from her heart about raising two children with autism. Hello! I have two children with autism – one girl who is 29 and one boy who is almost 28, both of whom are complete opposites. My daughter is easily overstimulated and has seizures, while my son is very under stimulated. It …
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Aug
2019
Grief After a Murder of Grant Whitaker
By: Deaf Counseling Center
Category: Deaf, Death/Dying, Laws, Legal Issues, Media, Mental Health, National, News, Therapy
Tags: counseling, National Deaf Therapy
Complicated Grief after Murder of Deaf Young Man Deaf Counseling Center’s Dr. Candace McCullough and Sharon Duchesneau share some thoughts on the complicated nature of grief after murder of Grant Whitaker by Mavrick Martin Fisher and offer support to the national Deaf community in the form of pro bono counseling sessions to those who may be directly impacted by the …
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Aug
2019
Does Virtual/Online Counseling Work? 2007
By: Deaf Counseling Center
Category: Counseling, Mental Health, National, News, Psychiatric, Psychology, Research, Therapy, Videos
Tags: National, Online
Videophone and Internet-based Counseling: Who Benefits? One more video from our archives, this one from 2007, featuring Sharon introducing the concept of online/virtual/videophone counseling. It’s hard to believe 16 years have flown by since we brought online counseling sessions to the Deaf community for the first time in 2003. Thanks to Sorenson for distributing the first videophones to the Deaf …
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Aug
2019
Rethinking the ASL Therapy Sign (2006)
By: Deaf Counseling Center
Category: ASL, Deaf, Language, Mental Health, National, Psychology, Social Justice, Therapy, Videos
Tags: 2006, ASL, Deaf
Feeling nostalgic after reviewing our archives. Here’s a throwback video by our (much younger!) Sharon, sharing thoughts about a new sign for “counseling”, 13 years ago in 2006. We are happy to see that use of this new sign that we suggested has slowly spread over the years, and more people have opted to use this sign over the traditional …
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