What It's Like To Raise A Deaf Child

WATCH [CC] - Raising a Deaf child: Parents share how they found out a child was deaf and how they raised a child.

Finding out your baby / child is Deaf can be devastating - but it’s not the end of the world. In this video, Ashley Clark Fry's parents share their experience of finding out she was born deaf and their journey raising her in the hearing world.

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Did you know that many hearing parents of Deaf children do not learn sign language to communicate with their Deaf child? Growing up, Ashley had so many people-like teachers, interpreters, people working in the Deaf education field, etc. tell Ashley all the time how lucky she was to have her parents learning sign language to communicate with her. They were amazed at how well her parents handled having a deaf baby and raising a Deaf child with no prior knowledge about the Deaf community and sign language.



Ashley can’t imagine what it’s like to find out that your baby was born deaf. But she do know that it’s not the end of the world. She was born deaf and was raised by hearing parents and Ashley turned out okay. And my hope is that this video will reach new hearing parents to share and encourage that it’s not the end of the world if your baby is DEAF. It will have some tough moments, but it’s all about perspective and learning how to adjust and live a little differently.



Ashley wanted to interview her parents to share their story -- what it was like finding out that their baby was deaf and what it was like to raise a deaf child - and also to share what they decided to do and why they made the decisions they made in hopes that hearing parents of Deaf babies / children would find this and be encouraged and help them make more informed decisions. Back then, her parents didn’t have anyone to ask, and couldn't even Google it - as there wasn’t internet in 1989 when Ashley was born. She hope with this video is that hearing parents can make more informed and educated decisions for their Deaf baby / child.



Hope you enjoyed the interview!



If you have any questions related to the interview video or just questions in general, feel free to comment below in the comment section, HERE.



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WATCH [CC] - Atlanta teens face long suspension after assaulting hearing-impaired student at mainstream school.

ATLANTA, GA -- An Atlanta mother says a group of high school students who attacked her hearing-impaired daughter could be suspended from the school for one year or one semester.



Mother Kimberly Flournoy says her 18-year-old daughter Jacqueline was recently cold-clocked out of the blue on campus at Maynard Jackson High School.

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“He just turned around and slapped me. I was like, ‘OK, what just happened?’” Jacqueline Flournoy said.



Right before that, another student pulled the 18-year-old’s hair.



A third student recorded the attack, which happened Nov. 30, egging the other two students on.



"I think it was hate. They were just being spiteful and mean. They wanted to make a video about it and go viral,” Jacqueline Flournoy said.



Jacqueline Flournoy says the two brothers and a female student made vulgar comments about her relationship and her speech.



The 18-year-old, who is black, has a white boyfriend. She is also hearing-impaired.



Jacqueline’s mother posted the video on social media to raise awareness about bullying and to make sure the students are punished to the fullest extent.



The attackers were initially suspended for one day and forced to apologize.



"I want them expelled from school,” Kimberly Flournoy said.



The two brothers will face a tribunal Wednesday where they could be removed from the school for one year or one semester, according to the mother.



The girl who recorded the video could face cyber-bullying discipline, Kimberly Flournoy says.



Jacqueline Flournoy wants to turn the incident into something positive. She and her mother have created an anti-bullying campaign.



"It shouldn't be happening. If it is happening, you should speak up to somebody,” Jacqueline Flournoy said.



The 18-year-old says people have to learn to treat others with respect.



Kimberly Flournoy also has a message for the parents of kids who bully.



"Parents, [you] need to talk to your children. I mean, it's bad enough that adults treat each other like this, but for kids to do it, they're learning it from someone,” she said.



Atlanta Public Schools has not yet released a comment about the video.



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WATCH [CC] - Deaf News: Unqualified ASL poser with criminal past dupes police at Seminole Heights killer news conference in Tampa, Florida.

TAMPA, FL -- WFLA: Tampa police spokesman Steve Hegarty says a lack of due diligence allowed a career criminal to take center stage as an American Sign Language interpreter last week during a hastily-called news conference where the police chief and mayor announced they had captured a suspect in the Seminole Heights murders.



Even worse, Hegarty says, is the sign language poser Derlyn Roberts blew the assignment with a gibberish-filled interpretation broadcast on live television at 11 p.m. Tuesday.

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“My major concern is that she was representing our department and didn’t do a good job,” Hegarty said.



Hegarty says Roberts presented herself as an interpreter for the Deaf just before the news conference. In that hectic moment, he says he failed to ask the right questions to determine whether she was from Purple Communications which the city typically hires for sign language duties.



Rachelle Settambrino, who teaches sign language at the University of South Florida, says interpreter Roberts signed the following: “Fifty-one hours ago, zero 12 22 (indecipherable) murder three minutes in 14 weeks ago in old (indecipherable) murder four five 55,000 plea 10 arrest murder bush (indecipherable) three age 24.”



Another USF professor says it made her stomach turn.



“I was sick at the idea of all the other interpreters that could have been standing there and been signing the information clearly. What in the world was this person doing out there, waving her hands,” said Betti Bonni.



Roberts got out of state prison last year after serving years for organized fraud.



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Tampa police spokesman Steve Hegarty says a lack of due diligence allowed sign language poser Derlyn Roberts to be a part of the news conference.

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Hegarty says Roberts presented herself as an interpreter for the Deaf just before the news conference. In that hectic moment, he says he failed to ask the right questions to determine whether she was from Purple Communications, which the city typically hires for sign language duties.



Rachelle Settambrino, who teaches sign language at the University of South Florida, says interpreter Roberts signed the following: “Fifty-one hours ago, zero 12 22 (indecipherable) murder three minutes in 14 weeks ago in old (indecipherable) murder four five 55,000 plea 10 arrest murder bush (indecipherable) three age 24.”



Roberts got out of state prison last year after serving years for organized fraud.



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