Chisholm Trail Hearing

11/22/2024

11/17/2024

https://youtu.be/knGJ0T477UM?si=RZkS4ajSpiUJ1nzV

Gallaudet University and AT&T partnered together for this national commercial 'Sound of Silence' about the AT&T 5G Helmets. The commercial mades its debut on...

11/09/2024

09/19/2024

It’s time for our second annual Deaf Day on Sept. 21! 🎉

The Zoo, in partnership with the Sign Language Interpreting Program at Tarrant County College, invites members of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities, and their friends and families, to enjoy the day with us! ☀

On the event day, American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters, provided by TCC, will be stationed throughout the Zoo at areas such as zookeeper chats, giraffe feeding and select restaurant and merchandise locations to allow seamless communication access to all our guests. Deaf Day 2023 was such a success that we are thrilled to carry that momentum forward this year. Come join us!

For more info visit: https://www.fortworthzoo.org/deaf-day!

06/03/2024

02/14/2024

Sadly it seems the interpretation was not chosen for the broadcast. Interpreting song is a true art form literally painting a picture for the audience. It was beautifully well done.

02/04/2024

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12/08/2022

This graphic is so helpful for explaining why children might appear to "hear" you, but not be "listening" -- or, to put it in other words, why they might look at you when you speak, or might even be able to repeat back the sounds that you made, but might not have comprehended a direction that you gave them, or might not have even looked up from their play.

A child might detect that a new sound (like you calling their name) is happening in the room, but not discriminate that the sound is important or directed at them.

They might detect the sound, and discriminate it from other noises in the environment such that they recognize it as their name and try to tune in...but then not be able to identify the specific things that you're saying.

They might identify what you're saying, but not comprehend what the individual words mean, or be able to successfully turn it into a statement or question that they understand and process and can act on.

And an adult might watch this happen and then turn away and say, frustrated, "They heard me, they just chose not to listen!" or "They heard everything I said and then they broke the rule anyway!", not realizing that the child's hearing, processing, auditory systems are still learning and practicing and doing their best.

[Image description: A graphic from the Instagram handle Deafinitely Communicating (). It has a picture of a dark-skinned ear, with four different-colored "wave" shaped semicircles going into the ear. The text next to it reads, "I know you hear me! ...Yes, but there's levels to hearing. I may hear you, but not understand you." Below the ear and the text are numbers 1-4, colored the same as the different-colored "waves" going into the ear, indicating that these are 4 facets of the process of hearing/understanding:
1. Detection
2. Discrimination
3. Identification
4. Comprehension

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11/30/2022

Nice story.

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