By Wayne Johnson, Coordinator of Client Services in Central Coast Outreach Parents, you can help your child prepare for the future by learning to communicate with your child at an early age in American Sign Language. This can include discussing career paths and higher education. Through ASL, you can communicate your education and career expectations […]
By Wayne Johnson, Coordinator of Client Services in Central Coast Outreach office Lately I have been noticing a requirement in job postings that reads “Must speak, read and write English.” If you own a business, have you thought about what message your business is sending with that requirement? That poses a challenge if your HR […]
By Alexander Sanborn Being a Public Relations/Outreach Specialist for DHHSC and its outreach offices is an opportunity I have come to enjoy immensely this past month. The position I now hold is the first in the history of DHHSC. If you recall, there was never a designated spokesperson, if you will, only the expectation that […]
By: Candice Goodie, Client Services Specialist Growing up in Bakersfield, I loved attending Deaf events, such as the monthly pizza night, annual community picnics, seasonal performances, etc. At those events, I would interact with Children of Deaf Adults (CODAs) and Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals of various ages, ranging as early as 3 to […]
By Krystal Rios-Harris, Client Services Specialist Because starting or continuing a hobby is beneficial for any age, I have chosen art. I choose art because I want to be creative. But how does one start creating art if we don’t have any art skills? With this in mind, I gathered a list of ten ways […]
By Wayne Johnson, Coordinator of Client Services, Salinas We all know the advice to change the batteries in our smoke detector when we change the time. This is very good advice. If you are using a ten-year battery smoke detector, you may just install the detector and not think of it again. But, this means […]
By C.C. Ryder Growing up as a CODA, I thought I knew just about everything there was to know about Deaf history, only to discover I was wrong. Just the other day I was reading the Gallaudet University online paper and ran across a story about a movie called “SEEDS OF HOPE: THE ANDREW JACKSON […]
