Metro Regional Program for Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Links to Resources
(Several of these links are external links, you will be leaving the MRP webpage. MRP is not responsible for content found on the external sites)

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Alphabet Soup  (a listing of acronyms from PTI-Nebraska)
Audient - Spanish
Audiciondelbebe - My Baby's Hearing website in Spanish
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AGBell)
American Society for Deaf Children
Answers 4 families
ASL Tales - contests and books
ASL Stories - popular children's books told in ASL with captions
Assistive Technology Partnership
Assessment System for K-12 Interpreters (ASK-12)
At 4 all

Babystrology.com
Babystrology sign games
Boys Town National Research Hospital
 

Cihear.com - listening site
Classroom Interpreting
Center for Accessible Technology in Sign (CATS)CATS is dedicated to providing accessibility to learning via sign language. CATS' goal is to enhance language, literacy and general world knowledge by providing tools which make text, captions, video, web pages, and multimedia accessible to deaf users, particularly children.
Cochlear Implant Online - website of two sisters who both have bi-lateral Cochlear Implants


Deaf Blind Link
Deaf Blind Resource Blog
Deaf Lens - Reflections Through a Deaf Lens - Discussion of Deaf art, theater, media, and other related topics
Deafnewspaper.com - an online newspaper
DeafPlanet - cartons, sports, science, games etc. Great site.
Deaf Scientist Corner - a website devoted to great Deaf scientists.
Deaf Scientist Corner Wiki - teacher resource for the Deaf Scientist Corner
Deaftimes.net - an online newspaper
Deaf Resource Center
Deafmd.org

Deaf Summer Camps (This section is for your information only. Not an inclusive list.)
*Sponsored by the Nebraska Regional Programs
    Camp Anderson at Camp Kitaki

*Other camps not sponsored by the Nebraska Regional Programs
    Camp Sertoma
 

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EIPA Testing information (TASK12)
English Idioms Explained in ASL developed at the Kentucky School for the Deaf

Food Safety in sign language
Front Range Interpreter Training Program

Gallaudet University
Graduation Considerations for Students with Disabilities
Guidelines for Educational Interpreters

Hands and Voices - National Chapter
Hands and Voices - Omaha Chapter
Hands and Voices - Brochure
Hearing Exchange
Hearing Exchange Kids - geared for the tweens ages 10 - 13years old
Hearing Journey
Hearing Loss Simulators
    CDC - NIOSH Mining Software
    Tiger Speech
    UCL Phonetics & Linguistics
Hearing Loss Association of America
Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy - Therapeutic horseback riding in the Omaha Metro Area


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Iowa Western Community College
Info to go - Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center


Kids Club - a place for children with hearing loss to learn more about their hearing aids and loss through games
Kids Connection - Spanish
Kids World Deaf Net

 

Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
The Listening Room

Metro Community College
My Baby's Hearing from Boys Town National Research Hospital
My Baby's Hearing in Spanish
Metro Regional Program's Plan
Metro Regional Program's Lending Library
MOPIX - Motion Picture Access

 

National Association of the Deaf
Nebraska Deaf Blind Project
Nebraska Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Nebraska Department of Education
Nebraska Department of Education - Special Education
NSD Museum

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PBS Cornerstones - Literacy units for teachers of young students who are deaf and hard of hearing.
        Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type - Available as a storybook, video clip downloads in ASL/SEE and Cued Speech. Also available as Hypertext and a Between The Lions videotape
        Joseph Had a Little Overcoat - Available as a storybook, video clip downloads in ASL/SEE and Cued Speech. Also available as Hypertext and a Between The Lions videotape
        Fox and Crow - Available as a storybook, video clip download in ASL. Also available as Hypertext and a Between The Lions videotape
PTI Nebraska
Pepnet - itransition - free online transition curriculum to help students who are D/HH prepare for life after HS

Raising Deaf Kids
Ref for the deaf - focused on providing notification and alerting systems for deaf athletes
RIT National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Rule 51

SEE Center
Scholarships for Students
Signing Salsa - A cute website for parents of little ones. From Georgia Public Broadcasting. There are puppet shows with characters signing in front of the puppets
Space and Astronomy Pictionary - vocabulary, pictures and signs (if there is a sign) for the vocabulary word
Starkey - Spanish

 

Technical Assistance for Excellence in Special Education (TASK12)
The Interpreters Friend (a great resource - this site has many songs glossed)
TPA Scholarship

Toolkit for funding (The link will take you the the Central Western Nebraska Partnership's toolkit page)

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University of Nebraska at Omaha

Watson Scholarship  - Scholarship for students interested in Rehabilitation who have a disability - I am waiting for the 2009 information.
 

Links to Sign Language Sites


American Sign Language Browser
American Sign Language Library
ASL Dictionary
ASL Pro
Babystrology.com
Babystrology games
Dr. Bill Vicars' ASL Fingerspelling Tool
Finger spelling
HandSpeak
Lesson Tutor
LifePrint
Sign Hear Communication Center
Signing Online
SigningSavvy - free to use, but you must register. More options available to those who pay the membership fee.

 

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