Liam's playground:
Constantly evolving to encourage play, independence and most importantly fun for our deafblind son.
Description:
We wanted to create a playground that both of our sons could enjoy....
Deafblind
Posted by Megan Mogan
I live in Arizona and my mom lives in Illinois. Last week I found myself ordering her Mother’s Day gift online. After typing my financial and personal information and checking the order twice, I hovered the cursor over the word PURCHASE. “...
Posted by Liamsmom
I adapted Goldilocks and the Three Bears for my 4-year-old son who is deaf-blind.
2 Bears:
I wanted to create a story box for my son that was based off of a classic children's story. My son is beginning to learn ASL. I chose the...
Posted by Steve Perreault
The real purpose of this activity is to create motivation about braille for teenagers who are newly blind and congenitally deaf. This approach uses language experience stories written in contracted braille to give the full sense of braille....
Posted by Megan Mogan
by Megan Mogan, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist
In my last post we talked about using van Dijk’s coactive movement strategies to establish meaningful and enjoyable topics for our early communicators. Next I want to share a pretty simple...
Posted by Liamsmom
Concept book:
My 3-year-old son Liam, who is newly deaf/blind (lost his sight and hearing to Meningitis a year ago) is learning ASL and picking up on sign language very quickly. The next set of books I wanted to make for my...
Posted by Megan Mogan
Megan Mogan, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist
I’m sure you are a little confused that this is a literacy post and I am stuffing frosting into my face next to a student in the photograph to the left. Well, I promise you it’s a...
Posted by Liamsmom
My son became deafblind a year ago from Meningitis when he was 2 and 1/2 years old. Before he became sick, one of his favorite things was to be read to and look at books. I didn't want that to stop just because he lost his sight and...