CHAT РPromising Practices - Considerations for the Accessibility of Sign Language for Individuals with CVI Р5/15/23 From Kate Borg (she/her) to Everyone: Hi from Austin! From Christine Sauvé Guindon to Everyone: CCJL, Ottawa, Ontario CANADA From Lisa Garza to Everyone: Hello, from Mission, Tx From Christine Sauvé Guindon to Everyone: Hello from Ottawa, Canada! From Margaret Cuomo to Everyone: Elmira, NY From Margaret Hunt to Everyone: Hi from NC! From Jon Lautenschlager to Everyone: San Antonio From Jean Westphal to Everyone: Bryan ISD From janis regier to Everyone: Toronto, Ontario From Veronica Cantu to Everyone: Mission, TX From susan kemp to Everyone: Tennessee From Tricia Marsh to Everyone: Wichita Falls From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: Hi from rainy Spring, TX From Lannette Burlingame to Everyone: Hello from Kilgore, TX! From Laura thompson to Everyone: Friendswood, TX From Karen Baker to Everyone: Waco, Texas From Franchesca S to Everyone: Hello from Las Vegas NV From Linda Jordan to Everyone: Hi from Boerne, TX! From Kate Borg (she/her) to Everyone: This is a great list! From Christine Sauvé Guindon to Everyone: My CHARGE daughter is profoundly deaf (no auditory nerves, no implant possibility) and CVI. Getting her to learn sign language, in her formative years, was a journey! We started teaching sign before we knew she had CVI, so we just went with different strategies as we went. Some of them were the general rules of teaching signs to deaf individuals : make sure you have eye contact, have them repeat signs, etc. The problem was that we rarely had her visual attention, and she would not repeat signs at first. We started using different strategies, such as having the sign alphabet as posters on our living room wall, hoping to give her access. This worked after a while, where she started one afternoon to sign all the letters in order to herself sitting at the dinner table, forwards and backwards. Here she is figuring out numbers : https://photos.app.goo.gl/iPFEgcjh81onyDya6 . Once she figured out that we used our hands for communication, things did go better and her signs progressed a lot. From Christine Sauvé Guindon to Everyone: (Comment from my colleague Pascal Lafrance) From Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: Thanks for sharing, Pascal! So interesting! From Kate Borg (she/her) to Everyone: Pascal, that is really neat! I’d love to know more. From Christine Sauvé Guindon to Everyone: Getting her attention for prolonged communication is hard most of the time, but needs to be done to be able to communicate. Repetition is almost always needed, unless it's a sign that she knows very well (pool, candy, bath, and some others!) Sometimes we have to take away some visual clutter or unneeded visual stimuli to communicate. (Pascal) From Hillary Keys to Everyone: Thank you for sharing Pascal and Christine. This is very interesting and gives me some more things to think about. From Kate Borg (she/her) to Everyone: Wow!!! So many considerations!!! From Debra Fournier-Pursel to Everyone: Thank you From Rita Dunn to Host and Panelists: Thank you Fabulous From Christine Sauvé Guindon to Everyone: Thank you! Very informative! (Pascal) From Penni Houser to Everyone: Thank you From Linda Jordan to Everyone: Thanks! From Rachel Collins to Everyone: Thank you so much, Marguerite! From Veronica Cantu to Everyone: Thank you. From Amanda Crayton to Everyone: Thank you so much, Marguerite! Looking forward to even more! From Margaret Hunt to Everyone: Thanks for such a great presentation and wonderful information!!!