Helen: Our two deaf tutors were deaf Kate and
Helen. Kate shared about raising her two children: one deaf and one hearing.
Both are achieving good levels at school. This was evidently because her family
were so inclusive.
Recent research shows that deaf and hearing
acquire language at the same rate if the family is equipped to enable the deaf
child to do so. We plan and hope to use
our newly acquired skills with families that have deaf family members when we
return to Arua.
Our thanks to the National Deaf Children’s
Society for running this training, and to the Dept. of Education for providing
grants to enable families with very young deaf members to benefit from this
funded course.
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