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
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
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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Aug
2019
Grief: Sandy’s ASL Story of Her Son Being Shot
By: Deaf Counseling Center
Category: Counseling, Deaf, Depression, Grief, Laws, Legal Issues, Mental Health, National, PTSD, Therapy, Videos
Tags: counseling, Counselor, Deaf, Grief, Murder, National, Russian Roulette, therapy
Hi, my name is Sandy Graham. I’m from Michigan. My son was shot when he was only 14 years old, back in 1997. He would have been 36 years old today. His name is Saleh (shows name-sign “S” shaking from side to side). What happened was that a boy named John, who was almost 16 years old, found his father’s …
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Aug
2019
Deaf Parent’s Suicide Grief
By: Deaf Counseling Center
Category: Counseling, Deaf, Death/Dying, Depression, Mental Health, Parenting/Families, Relationships, Therapy, Videos
Tags: Deaf, Grief, Suicide
Terrylene shares the profound grief she experienced upon her son’s death. For me, grief was a foreign word until it comes crashing down on my life. In human being experience and life milestones such as finding love, getting married, first day of school. Grief is part of human being milestones. Grief cannot and will not escape humanity. My world now …
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Aug
2019
Sign Language: WhyISign
By: Deaf Counseling Center
Category: Audism, Counseling, Deaf, Mental Health, National, Therapy, Videos
Transcript: #whyisign This is actually about why we sign here at Deaf Counseling Center. All of us are Deaf and we work with Deaf people from all over the US. We believe that every Deaf person should have access to direct communication in counseling. Going to counseling and having an interpreter witness intimate discussions is not comfortable. Neither is having …
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Aug
2019
Deaf Counseling: Stress & Self-Care
By: Deaf Counseling Center
Category: Anxiety, Counseling, Deaf, Health, Quotes, Videos
Tags: Deaf Counseling Center, Deaf Therapy, National Deaf Therapy, Stress, Video
Transcript/Video Description: Title Slide (black with white text): Stress & Self-Care, Deaf Counseling Center, www.deafcounseling.com Sharon (Caucasian woman with black/grey hair, wearing glasses, standing in a kitchen in front of a cookie sheet with a measuring cup full of blue water and a glass one quarter filled with blue water): All of us have different types of stress in our …
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