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  • Members: 1671
  • Category: Care Giving
  • Founded: Apr 30, 1999
  • Language: English
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Description

MISSION STATEMENT
Listen-up Listserve membership is restricted to parents of deaf/hard of hearing children only and was created to support their informational and emotional needs . These children have varied degrees of hearing loss. They are oral, use various forms of sign language, cue, have cochlear implants, wear hearing aids, use assistive listening devices. They are mainstreamed, educated in self-contained classrooms and attending schools for the deaf. Their commonality is that they all must be educated and as parents we must ensure that the educational system works for them and that society gives them a chance to succeed.

The main purpose of this group is to advocate for the rights
of our children and to make life as good for them as it can
possibly be for a child with a hearing loss. We share
problems, strategies, successes and failures. We provide
moral support, advice and share methodologies. The key to
the success of this group is that we respect each parent's
decision to educate their hearing impaired child in the
fashion that they have chosen. We do not debate strategies,
though we may share our experiences with different
approaches. Some of us are encountering major hurdles in
educating our children in mainstreamed settings. Others
are quite lucky to be working within very progressive
school systems willing to accomodate their children's needs.
Either way, we all share the emotional burden of raising
children who are different because they are "hearing
impaired."

This is a group of parents united. All of the parents are
equal members and each one has value in their own right.

Message History

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2013 190 51 102 99 33
2012 279 166 272 368 235 126 218 299 226 141 87 88
2011 267 368 453 359 252 282 167 179 451 224 267 172
2010 353 316 247 237 301 282 216 259 406 382 326 170
2009 1257 626 701 507 621 389 642 578 492 564 475 419
2008 1814 2327 2180 1551 1209 584 789 673 774 541 681 559
2007 882 732 879 668 973 669 722 644 853 1032 935 864
2006 543 619 597 592 1160 901 907 627 955 638 723 431
2005 684 617 502 491 533 387 302 403 603 537 476 808
2004 469 423 534 338 267 278 266 465 398 616 429 719
2003 285 286 274 301 349 260 110 258 264 217 326 497
2002 388 598 441 480 380 508 404 262 293 417 343 339
2001 838 687 815 361 435 350 256 613 282 350 361 163
2000 564 642 929 460 497 448 263 449 449 822 466 339
1999 584 556 496 992 1331 765 412 570

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