ASL for Families
For more information about the opportunities below, please contact Margaret Airey at 207- 781-3165.
Deaf Mentor/ASL Family Training Program
The Deaf Mentor Program offers families the opportunity to meet Deaf and hard-of-hearing adults with different experiences and varying educational backgrounds. Families are encouraged to ask questions and have discussions about the Deaf or hard of hearing adult’s lived experiences. The Deaf Mentor program supports families in implementing bilingual/bicultural home-based programming for young children. Services are embedded into the child’s early intervention services.
These providers have received specific training and certification from the National Deaf Mentor Program and a Bachelors or Masters Degree from an accredited college or university.
ASL Parent Training
The ASL Parent Training program supports families in implementing bilingual/bicultural home-based programming for young children, ages 3-21, who are deaf or hard of hearing. The ASL Parent Training program provides the family regular sessions with an ASL teacher and teaches the family members how to communicate in ASL. This helps the family understand and appreciate deafness and Deaf Culture.
These providers have received specific training and certification from the National Deaf Mentor Program and a Bachelors or Masters Degree from an accredited college or university.
ASL Coffee Chats
MECDHH/GBSD offers an opportunity for families to come together and learn ASL and interact with other families. These sessions are facilitated by deaf staff and are engaging and fun and exclusively for families, caregivers and others in close contact with children that sign. The goal of the program is to provide families with ASL skills as they apply to regular, daily communication. Sessions occur weekly in 8 week sessions. Click HERE for information on the next Coffee Chat.
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