Spanish Speaking Families
Hi Everyone,
I work in Southern California with the Los Angeles County of the Education. We are in our fifth year with Shared Reading Project. Currently, we have about 10 tutors with 25 families. Most of our families speak Spanish. It is nice to see our Spanish parents learning ASL. Also, they can communicate with their DHH children, too. For our Deaf tutors, sometimes they get confused because they rely on ASL and lipreading English but when they encounter Spanish parents, they speak Spanish and sign ASL at the same time. The tutors had to ignore the parents' mouths and look at the hands. It is funny. I am wondering if any of you have worked with Spanish-speaking families.
Heather Van Zee
Los Angeles County Office of Education
I work in Southern California with the Los Angeles County of the Education. We are in our fifth year with Shared Reading Project. Currently, we have about 10 tutors with 25 families. Most of our families speak Spanish. It is nice to see our Spanish parents learning ASL. Also, they can communicate with their DHH children, too. For our Deaf tutors, sometimes they get confused because they rely on ASL and lipreading English but when they encounter Spanish parents, they speak Spanish and sign ASL at the same time. The tutors had to ignore the parents' mouths and look at the hands. It is funny. I am wondering if any of you have worked with Spanish-speaking families.
Heather Van Zee
Los Angeles County Office of Education
3 Comments:
At 9:53 AM, David Schleper said…
Hi Heather.
At the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School at the Clerc Center, 4 of our families speak Spanish. We also have two trilingual tutors who work closely with the Spanish-speaking families. -Dave Schleper, Clerc Center
At 10:56 AM, hvanzee said…
Hi Dave..
Only one of our ten tutors are trilingual but most of our tutors are willing to work with our Spanish Speaking families by providing more materials in Spanish such as sign langauge booklets and games, too.
At 9:10 AM, David Schleper said…
Also, remember that all of the Shared Reading Project books have been translated into Spanish. Make sure you have the translations if you need them.
David Schleper, Clerc Center
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