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12/23/2025
OFFICE CLOSED
The GURC-East office will be closed December 25, 2025 - January 1, 2026. We'll re-open on January 2, 2026.
We wish you a very happy and safe holiday season, and we look forward to seeing you in the new year!
11/17/2025
Who is ready for turkey???
03/12/2025
Reading - Is It Necessary (Es necesario leer? cc en Espanol) From Reading Rockets - Dr. Leala Holcomb, an expert in Deaf education and literacy, says that reading aloud together is a superpower in developing your child...
03/06/2025
Guess what. March is Read Aloud Month! Will you and your kids complete the 21 Day Read Aloud Challenge? Let us help. We'll be posting on of our ASL book translations to Facebook from the 10th through the 31st. Watch the video with your family, students, or friends, and sign along!
Deaf and hard of hearing kids who are exposed to sign language early and often acquire full language and expression more successfully, go on to be better English readers/writers/speakers, and are more successful in school as well!
Kids who are read to will daily know 63 percent more words by age five than those who aren't!
So, what are you waiting for? Read!
Adivina qué. ¡Marzo es el Mes de Leer en Voz Alta! ¿Tú y tus hijos completarán el Desafío de 21 días de Leer en Voz Alta? Permítanos ayudarle. Del 10 al 31 publicaremos las traducciones de nuestros libros en ASL en Facebook. Mire el video con su familia, estudiantes o amigos, ¡y copie el lenguaje de señas!
¡Los niños sordos y con problemas de audición que están expuestos al lenguaje de señas temprano y con frecuencia adquieren un lenguaje y expresión completos con más éxito y llegan a ser mejores lectores y escritores de inglés y más exitosos en la escuela también!
¡Los niños a quienes se les lee diariamente conocen un 63 por ciento más de palabras a los cinco años que aquellos a quienes no se les lee!
Entonces, ¿qué estás esperando? ¡Lee!
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
03/03/2025
Saturday, March 15th, from 9:30-12:30, join us in reading "A Pocket for Corduroy"
Come learn to read with your Deaf or hard of hearing child in American Sign Language (ASL)! Free child care, activities, and refreshments will be provided. Each family goes home with a copy of the book and a DVD of the story! This event will be interpreted into ASL, English and Spanish.
Por Sabado, 15 de Marzo, 9:30-12:30, acompanenos para la lectura de "Un Bolsillo Por Corduroy."
Venga y aprenda con su nino sordo o sordo parcial en el Lenguaje de Senas Americano! Cuidado de ninos, actividades y refrigerios seran proveidos gratuitamente cada familia se ira a casa con copia de el libro y un DVD de el cuento en ASL! Hay interpretes de ASL/Ingles/y Espanol desponsible.
https://mailchi.mp/gallaudet/shared-reading-saturday-march-15-sabado-de-lectura-compartida-15-de-marzo
02/27/2025
Zoom Sessions with Deaf Adults for World Hearing Day - https://mailchi.mp/gallaudet/zoom-sessions-with-deaf-adults-for-world-hearing-day
02/14/2025
02/14/2025
02/03/2025
The Boston University Wheelock office of Strategic Partnerships & Community Engagement (SPACE) is thrilled to host the second webinar in the series Research that Matters: Insights from Community Engaged Scholarship. Through a series of compelling conversations, this webinar aims to translate cutting-edge scholarship into accessible, practical knowledge and foster stronger connections between researchers, policymakers, and community practitioners on February 13th, 2025 from 3:30pm-4:15pm EST.
Learning Their Language: How Parents of Deaf Children Learn to Sign will feature a conversation between Amy Lieberman (Associate Professor, BU Wheelock), Elana Pontecorvo (Doctoral Student, BU Sargent College), and Julie Mitchiner (Professor, Gallaudet University), moderated by Stacy Abrams (Founder, ). The panelists will be discussing their recent research, Hearing parents as sign language learners: describing and evaluating the ASL skills of parents learning ASL with their deaf children.
About this study: This study explores the misconception that hearing parents cannot achieve sufficient sign language proficiency to support their deaf child's language development. Researchers found this belief to be at odds with evidence from parents who have learned American Sign Language upon finding out that they have a deaf child. Motivated by a simple idea—to counter the narrative that hearing parents cannot learn to sign—this study takes a responsive approach to understanding and addressing this misconception. Researchers recruited hearing parents with deaf children to understand where and how they learned to sign, what was most successful in learning (and what barriers they faced), what beliefs they held about sign language, and what level of proficiency they achieved. This research highlights the pathways and real-world successes of sign language use in families.
The webinar will be accessible in both ASL and English. Register via Zoom through the link tree link in the bio.
01/14/2025
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jean Marzollo Use of this resource is limited to the education of individuals with disabilities. User must own or have a copy of the text in their possession. Users agree ...