25
Sep
2019

Deaf Adoptee Shares Her Experience

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Adoption, Counseling, Deaf, Legal Issues, Mental Health, National, Parenting/Families, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy, Videos Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Experience of a Deaf Adoptee Cynthia opens up about being a Deaf adoptee, sharing some experiences she had that are common among adoptees. Deaf Parents Started with Being Foster Parents Hi, I’m Cynthia. I’ve watched the recent video series on adoption, which has featured parents who have adopted children. Now I’d like to share my story as an adoptee. I’ll …

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25
Sep
2019

Deaf Adoption Tips from Therapist

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Adoption, Deaf, National, Parenting/Families, Relationships, Therapy, Videos Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Deaf Adoption Tips by Deaf Parents Judy and Bob offer some helpful tips to consider before adopting a child. Deaf Adoption Tips include unconditional commitment, good network with the Deaf community, and appropriate terminology. Bob: Hello. We will discuss adoption. My name is Bob… Combining Children by Birth and Adoption Judy: and I am Judy. Together, we raised two daughters, …

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20
Sep
2019

Adoption Barriers Faced by Deaf Lesbians

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Accommodation, Adoption, ASL, Children, Counseling, Deaf, Domestic Violence, Laws, Legal Issues, LGBTQAA, Medical, Mental Health, National, Parenting/Families, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy Tags: , , , , , , ,

Deaf Lesbians’ Systemic Barriers to Adoption Ella and Judy discuss the challenges they faced as first-generation lesbian mothers dealing with systemic barriers to adoption. Domestic Violence Led to Move Judy: I had five children who I brought with me to Kansas from Oklahoma due to domestic violence that caused a breakdown in spiritual growth, as well as physical, emotional and …

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20
Sep
2019
Deaf Transracial Transcountry adoption Edna Johnston

Deaf Transracial and Trans-Country Adoption

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Adoption, ASL, Counseling, Deaf, Intersectionality, LGBTQAA, Mental Health, National, Parenting/Families, Psychology, Racism, Relationships, Therapy, Videos Tags: , , , , , , ,

Deaf Transracial and Trans-country Adoption Edna shares her family’s experience with Deaf transracial and trans-country adoption. Deaf transracial and trans-country adoption: Hello everyone, I’m Edna Johnston. My topic is adoption. I have four children, all of whom I adopted, including one who was conceived and born with my wife of 16 ½ years. I think adoption is a beautiful concept …

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19
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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28
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: ,

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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24
Aug
2019

Does Virtual/Online Counseling Work? 2007

By: Deaf Counseling Center Category: Counseling, Mental Health, National, News, Psychiatric, Psychology, Research, Therapy, Videos Tags: ,

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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21
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: , ,

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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16
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: , , , , , , ,

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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10
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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