It’s good to see that Bush has signed into law the Americans With Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008. The Amendments go into effect starting January 1, 2009. Interestingly, Senator Obama was one of the co-sponsors of the ADAAA.
In the past, the courts had interpreted the ADA to be only for those with really severe disabilities, [...]
Archive for September, 2008
The Americans With Disabilities Amendments Acts of 2008 Signed by Bush 09/25/08
Posted in DHH mothers with hearing children, cochlear implants, disabilities, hard of hearing, hearing aids, parents of children with hearing problems, understanding DHH people, tagged disabilities on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is Residual Hearing Useful?
Posted in DHH mothers with hearing children, cochlear implants, hard of hearing, hearing aids, hearing loss, parents of children with hearing problems, understanding DHH people on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those who might not know what residual hearing is, it’s hearing that exists in a person with hearing loss, but might not be with 100% clarity.
For example, I am totally deaf in my right ear. I have some residual hearing in my left ear. If I don’t wear a hearing aid in that left [...]
Naturalistic Intelligence Mode
Posted in Other subjects on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the last posting about the multiple intelligences.
I won’t be covering this one in too much detail. Basically, possessing the the naturalistic intelligence ability means someone has the ability to understand the natural world. This person would be comfortable living and/or working out in natural areas.
You have a sort of innate ability to understand [...]
INTERpersonal And INTRApersonal Intelligence Modes
Posted in DHH mothers with hearing children, hard of hearing, hearing loss, parents of children with hearing problems, understanding DHH people on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I missed doing the multiple intelligence postings over the last few days, so today I’ll cover two. They are both related anyway.
They are INTERpersonal and INTRApersonal intelligence modes. Be careful you don’t get the two mixed up.
Let’s do INTERpersonal intelligence mode first. This means you are able to relate well to other people. You are [...]
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
Posted in DHH mothers with hearing children, hard of hearing, hearing loss, parents of children with hearing problems, understanding DHH people on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is another interesting multiple intelligence mode. Visual-spatial means you have the ability to visualize and see things “out in the open”. For example, let’s say you are an architect.
You want to build a tall religious steeple, higher than anything in town. You can actually visualize it in your head what it will look like. [...]
Verbal-Linguistics Intelligence
Posted in DHH mothers with hearing children, hard of hearing, hearing loss, parents of children with hearing problems, understanding DHH people on September 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With the L.A. train collision not too far from my house, I almost forgot to do the posting for today.
I’d like to offer condolences to everyone connected with it. I have ridden that track myself many times. The track runs close to my house, and we do get quite a few trains everyday.
I grew up [...]
Logical-Mathematics Intelligence Mode
Posted in DHH mothers with hearing children, hard of hearing, hearing loss, parents of children with hearing problems, understanding DHH people on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay. Here is the third posting about multiple intelligences, and this one is about logical-mathematics abilities.
My husband told me recently he thinks almost entirely in math. He is not comfortable with written English.
There are people like that, that like math and thinking of logical solutions to problems. If a DHH person is excellent in mathematics [...]
Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence
Posted in DHH mothers with hearing children, hard of hearing, hearing loss, parents of children with hearing problems, understanding DHH people on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay. Today’s posting is about Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence. These are people who are able to communicate/express themselves using their bodies. You know how you can enjoy watching a very good mime perform? You’re able to understand a lot just by watching his/her gestures.
I remember a real famous French mime, Marcel Marceau, who said a lot about [...]
Multiple Intelligences and DHH Discussion
Posted in DHH mothers with hearing children, hard of hearing, hearing loss, parents of children with hearing problems, understanding DHH people on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All right, I’m back.
Awhile back I had listed the multiple intelligences theory. I have not checked my archives on what I’ve posted so far. I think I’m going to go ahead and review them again.
Now, multiple intelligences theory says that everyone, including DHH people, have different ways of dealing with information given to them. I [...]
Start DHH Postings Tomorrow
Posted in Other subjects on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
See my other blog at: www.ruthpealer.wordpress.com for what happened.
I hope to start posting regular DHH comments shortly. There’s to be a book proposal done about it soon. Will give more details later.
