Jun 23 2009
When: Friday, June 26th
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Where: Oklahoma School for the Deaf, located at 1100 East Oklahoma Ave. in Sulphur OK, 73086-3108
Additional Information
Tickets: $10 at the door
Meet and Greet Rachel after the performance
Jun 09 2009
Raising the High-Achiever
by Lex de Azevedo
As a young father I valued achievement. After all, aren’t high-achievers at less risk for self-destructive behavior? Aren’t high-achievers part of the solution, and low-achievers part of the problem? Aren’t high achievers the ones that change the world?
It all started the day she was born. She was our third child. This was the third time we had taken the birthing classes. We knew the drill well and were totally prepared…well, almost totally prepared. I don’t recall the exact timing, or sequence of events; I just remember barely having enough time to put on my gown, booties and mask when suddenly, she shot out and the doctor caught her like a quarter back catching a hike from the center. “Wow, that was fast!” I thought. Linda, her mom, probably remembers it differently.
Jun 06 2009
When: Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 1:00pm
Where: San Diego Convention Center
111 Harbor Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Tickets: $6 per adult
For more information visit http://www.babytimeexpo.com/
When: Sunday, June 14th from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Where: At the New Mexico School for the Deaf in the Larson Gym, located at 1060 Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505.
Additional Information: Come and meet Rachel and take pictures with her after the show. This is event is free and open to the general public
Jun 03 2009
By Lynnette Stevens, Coordinator III, Vegas PBS
The Educational Media Services Department at Vegas PBS in Las Vegas, Nevada is utilizing Signing Time in many interesting and innovative ways which includes broadcast, video streaming, curriculum integration and community outreach events. As a licensee of the Clark County School District, Vegas PBS provides Educational Media Services to the fifth largest school district in the nation. Signing Time is broadcast to over 350 schools on a 6 channel closed-circuit broadcast system throughout the year. The program is aired during and after school hours to accommodate classroom teachers as well as after school programs.
A CCSD speech therapist writes, “One hard-of-hearing student with autism really enjoys the program. His only means of communication is ASL. Signing Time helped to enable the staff to learn to communicate with him.” A first grade teacher shares, “Signing Time provides another means by which my students learn new vocabulary words, teaching them how to communicate with others in the community. The broadcast of the program provides an activity that the students engage in with enthusiasm.”
Vegas PBS also provides all teachers and students access to a computer-based Video Streaming Service which houses over 60,000 educational media clips. With over 1.7 million downloads in the past 6 years, video streaming has fast become their most popular service. Signing Time will soon be made available via this medium, offering teachers more convenient access to the program.
The Ready to Learn Department of Vegas PBS incorporates Signing Time into its literacy-based workshops designed to foster parent/child interaction. Over 400 workshops are conducted annually in Title I Tot and Pre-K classrooms. Additionally, the Ready to Learn Department has hosted local Signing Time events over the past three years in partnership with the Las Vegas Clark County Library District. The event represents a perfect collaboration of children’s programming that promotes interactive tv-viewing , outreach and innovative ways to reach a greater viewing/doing audience.