Social-Emotional Attachment Group for Deaf Parents and babies ages 0-2
VCH Well-Being Program is pleased to partner with Lila & Pip to provide a bi-weekly group for deaf parents and their babies ages 0-2 from Oct 21, 2016 to Feb 17, 2017
Learn About
· Connecting with baby
· Making eye contact with baby
· Strategies to use at home
· ASL stories
· ASL songs
· and more!
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Register with Alison Nutt at alison.nutt@vch.ca – information will be given about the location and group at that time.
Group will meet on the following dates:
· Oct 21, 2016
· Nov 4, 2016
· Nov 18, 2016
· Dec 2, 2016
· Dec 16, 2016
· Jan 6, 2017
· Jan 20, 2017
· Feb 3, 2017
· Feb 17, 2017
Direct link to the flyer and website of this group – http://deafwellbeing.vch.ca/events/ – click on Oct 21 event
Gallaudet Summer Youth Camps
Our Summer Youth Camps are designed for middle and high school students up to the age of 19. Our programs provide stimulating summer learning and experiential opportunities that blend excitement, education, and enjoyment in a bilingual environment rich in cultural diversity and located just minutes away from the U.S. Capitol.
Discover Your Future: Designed for deaf and hard of hearing students entering Grades 10-12 who want to learn more about themselves, their skills, and potential careers. Students will also explore what vibrant Washington, D.C. has to offer.
Immerse Into ASL!: A great opportunity for deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing students entering Grades 10-12 to expand their American Sign Language (ASL) skills and learn more about Deaf culture and history. Three different course levels are offered.
Exploring the Sciences: Designed for deaf and hard of hearing students entering Grades 9-12 who want to explore chemistry, biology, and neuroscience during the camp.
Blackbox Theatre Camp: Designed for deaf and hard of hearing thespians entering Grades 9-12 who want to learn about the various parts of a theater production and get an opportunity to create their own production.
Got Skills? (Middle School Leadership and Sports camp): A design-your-own camp for deaf and hard of hearing students entering Grades 6-8 who want to enhance their leadership and sports skills.
Gallaudet’s Youth Programs announces Summer 2017 Youth Camps.
Queewritica: October edition
This event has been cancelled
Queewritica: October edition
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Queewritica: Erotic writing on libido’s continuum. No matter the genre, no matter your level of experience on or off the page, if you’re writing about sex, we want you to come. Be your boner micro or macro or no bone at all, Queewritica can take it. From dried up to dripping wet, all levels of moistness are wanted.
Write libido’s continuum with us at the Roundhouse Board Room on the first Tuesday of every month.
This event is ASL interpreted and free of charge.
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Queewritica provides creative writing space for adults of all genders, orientations and relationship paradigms found under the queer umbrella. As such, members will be expected to interact respectfully and constructively to writings about sexuality and relationship types that may differ from their own experiences and preferences.
Queewritica puts on readings quarterly, with all proceeds being donated to Pride in Art Society. Participation is optional.
Queewritica meets at the Roundhouse on the first Tuesday evening of every month at 7:30pm. Check the chalkboard at the front desk when you arrive for the room.
ASL Interpretation is provided by volunteers from the Douglas College program of sign language interpretation. The venue fully wheelchair accessible. Please help us keep QAF events scent-reduced and refrain from wearing scented products while attending Queewritica.
For a full accessibility audit of the space, visit Radical Access Mapping Project https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QHUwp36z-6krVXM5P8vB81RRCibNF81QUpbwnRMqpOg/edit?usp=sharing
About the Facilitator:
Monica Meneghetti is a multilingual language professional and writer with a penchant for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Monica’s poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and musical scores, as well on stage and online. She has also taught and mentored both youth and adults, offering custom-designed workshops. As an editor, she has a special interest in enabling marginalised voices to be heard. She holds a BA in French & Linguistics, and an MFA in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia.
Society for American Sign Language Journal
Call for Papers
Society for American Sign Language Journal
ISSN: Pending (Online)
Society for American Sign Language Journal (SASLJ) is a peer-reviewed journal. The bi-yearly publication of SASLJ provides a platform that imparts and shares knowledge that is socially conscious and sensitive towards promoting ASL as a human language. Linguistic principles are valued for understanding the signed language’s aesthetics and role in literacy development, learning, and use. The journal strives towards the validation and expansion of linguistic accessibility. SASLJ’s scope and forum include theory, policy, and practice considerations, as well as addressing how an alternative language modality fulfills the needs and well-being of all citizens in society.
Specifically, SASLJ is comprised of high quality scholarly work, empirical and theoretical research papers, as well as those of case and descriptive studies, literature reviews, and book and performance reviews that address the signed language and related fields.
The journal is published by the Society for American Sign Language and serves as a focal point for academicians, professionals, graduate, and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research in the United States and Canada.
Interested contributors are highly encouraged to submit their manuscripts to the editor via e-mail at sasljournaleditor@gmail.com. Please indicate the name of the journal (Society for ASL Journal) in the cover letter during submission via e-mail.
Manuscripts that have been peer reviewed and accepted will be hosted online. Readers who are members of the Society for American Sign Language organization will have the exclusive privilege of accessing the article during its first year of publication. After the first year, journal articles will be made available for all to view.
SASLJ is inviting papers for Vol. 2, No. 1. The online publication date is on May-June 2017. Submission Deadline: February 1, 2017.
SASLJ website provides further information about the journal and authors’ guidelines for manuscript submission at http://societyforasl.org/journal
If you wish to become a member of this organization or want further information, please go to http://societyforasl.org.
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The history of Disability and Institutions
Our 12th session of our disabled support group Youth Without Limits is this Monday Oct. 3rd! – we needed to change the date because of the thanksgiving holiday.
Time: Snacks and refreshments 3:45pm- 4:00pm – time moved up a tad just to allow people to get settled before the presentation.
Presentation and Discussion 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Topic:
The history of Disability and Institutions (Woodlands)
Speaker: Bill McArthur (image below) – Member of” We Survived Woodlands Group” will come and share his experience and knowledge on the history of institutionalized care. He will touch on the history of Woodlands, his experiences, and his advocacy work.
Warning stories and images might be considered graphic to some
Where: Room 451 – 409 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC,
Please RSVP: youth@bccerebralpalsy.com
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The age range is from 13-29 and is for physically disabled youth and young adults. I have attached a link to our website for further information on the program.
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or know of anyone who would like to register. Also feel free to pass along this information. The best way to contact me is through this email, however I will be in the office on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Webpage:
http://bccerebralpalsy.com/programs/youth-without-limits-support-group/
