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Sep
2019
Deaf Indian Adoption

Deaf Indian Adoption: Maureen’s Story

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Adoption, ASL, Assessment, Audism, Children, Counseling, Deaf, Health, Language, Medical, Mental Health, National, Parenting/Families, Psychology, Therapy, Videos Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Advice for Prospective Adoptive Deaf Parents Maureen shares her Deaf Indian adoption experience and offers two important pieces of advice for prospective adoptive parents. Communication Access and Medical-Related Issues Hi, I’m Maureen Behrens. I’d like to share my adoption story, focusing on communication access and medical-related issues. I adopted my daughter about 10 ½ years ago, through the Holt International …

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3
Jun
2015

Deaf-Friendly Stress Tips in ASL

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Counseling, Health, Videos

Take Charge of Stress: Never underestimate how one simple stress-reducing action can brighten your day and improve your health. Click here to see a video about stress tips in American Sign Language (ASL). It offers some great tips for managing stress, including, but not limited to, meditation, exercise, and laughter. How Stress Affects Us: Our bodies, minds, and emotions all …

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7
Nov
2006

What’s up with the Big-D in Deaf?

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: ASL, Assessment, Language, Research Tags: , , , ,

The Capitalization Question: Not long ago, a reader asked us why we use the capitalized version of Deaf in our blog and website. This question brought us back to our thoughts last year, when we were in the middle of writing the text for the ASC website and debating the D/d issue. Opting to capitalize Deaf was not something we …

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5
Sep
2006

Why One Should Not Compare Apples to Oranges: Deaf Students and Hearing Students

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Audism, Children, Psychology, Research

Back to School: With September underway, Deaf students are once again heading back to schools and universities and once again, on the front burner, are concerns about Deaf education, student achievement scores, reading levels, and other related topics. It’s inevitable that comparisons will be made between Deaf students’ performances and those of their hearing peers. Apples and Oranges: When an …

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28
Aug
2006

Walking on Eggshells: Deaf and Hearing in Consultation

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Audism, Psychology

Tiptoeing Around the Topic: Without a doubt, one of the most sensitive issues in the Deaf community today is the role of hearing professionals who work closely with Deaf people. Bringing up this topic is a little bit like walking on eggshells. No matter your intentions – to open a dialogue, to encourage introspection, to understand motivation behind behaviors – …

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22
Jun
2006

Who Decides What is Normal and What is Not?

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Books, Psychology

The Big Book: Following up on this week’s earlier postings on labeling, today we thought we’d take a look at the DSM, the hefty 943-page widely used Diagnostic and Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association. The DSM is used by mental health professionals as a diagnostic tool. Every mental disorder, from autism to depression to …

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21
Jun
2006

Label Jars, Not People

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Counseling, Language

What’s in a label?: Labels are everywhere. We label people by gender, race, sexual orientation, body size, personality, politics, and so on. With every label comes an image, and with this image comes a prescribed set of behaviors. Girls should be polite and follow the rules; boys have lots of energy and sometimes can’t help their unruliness. People with bodies …

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12
Jun
2006

Implicit Associations

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Audism, Psychology, Videos

The Stoop Effect in Our Daily Lives: Thinking about interference (see Stroop Effect post on June 9th) and what it really means for us in our everyday lives. Jules made a good point in the comments section, noting that it can be hard to look past our first impressions sometimes and that we often need to remind ourselves to pay …

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9
Jun
2006

Interference: The Stroop Effect

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Assessment, Psychology

Don’t read the words on the right–just say the colors they’re printed in, and do this aloud as fast as you can. You’re in for a surprise! If you’re like most people, your first inclination was to read the words, ‘red, yellow, green…,’ rather than the colors they’re printed in, ‘blue, green, red…’ You’ve just experienced interference. When you look …

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