Raising A Humourous Deaf Teenager
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“Baby Llama! Mama ain’t buying this drama!”
How do you weave humour into your everyday conversations at home?
In this penultimate Episode 23, an ebullient Rebecca Rajkumar engages with Shefali Shah, a LSLS Cert. AVT professional, to share how she and her husband instilled a sense of humour in their profoundly deaf son.
Explaining jokes and then modelling key lines was a technique they found particularly useful.
A wide social circle of which their son was always a part, contributed to his growing up confident and advocating for himself.
Nurturing your relationship with your growing deaf teenager through conversation and ongoing discussion in which there are no taboo subjects, is key to raising a confident young adult.
Listen. Learn. Talk.
This is The Sound Steps Podcast.
🎧 Top Tips from Episode 21
- Instil a sense of humour in your growing child by immersing him in fun-filled family life
- Explain jokes especially sarcasm.
- Weave the subtleties of humour into your family conversation and every day exchanges.
- Developing self-advocacy skills is critical.
- Build a wide social circle.
- Discuss topics of interest together within your family life.
- 00:00 The Auditory-Verbal journey begins
- 01:12 Do children have an innate sense of humour?
- 01:22 Introducing our guest: Rebecca Rajkumar
- 02:08 Participating in extra-curricular activities at school
- 03:03 Academic work
- 03:34 Socialising at school and in the community
- 04:06 Self-advocacy
- 04:40 Getting back to work
- 05:17 Sarcasm
- 05:50 Humour defuses flashpoints!
- 07:41 How to instil humour in your child
- 09:12 Cooking as a channel to build vocabulary and expressive language
- 10:12 Growing up with parents who tease each other
- 10:45 Explaining jokes
- 11:00 Using a language rich model
- 11:30 Family conversation as an engine to power appreciation of humour
- 12:24 Videos to build understanding of humour
- 13:45 Timing of the delivery of punchline is critical
- 13:50 Breaking jokes down, explaining them, modelling and practicing
- 14:17 Appreciating the subtleties of humour
- 16:03 Weaving humour into all aspects of family life:bylines of books too!
- 16:35 Always being a part of family life and its circle of friends
- 17:24 Nothing was off limits within the family circle
- 17:44 Wanting to follow jokes and family conversations
- 18:00 Family Conversations on topics of mutual interest: e.g. History
- 18:46 To be a citizen of the modern world, free of prejudice
- 19:15 Discussing Slavery
- 19:36 Current affairs
- 20:21 Re-wording and changing presentation
- 21:19 Self-regulation
- 22:38 Putting others at ease
- 23:15 Instilling compassion
- 24:33 Sports training :Tennis
- 26:55 Participating in family social events
- 28:26 Self Advocacy
- 29:00 Keeping Perspective
- 29:33 Upcoming episode: Proud Parents of a deaf or Hard of Hearing Child: This could be your reality!
🔗 Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
- 💬 Submit your question to the show: https://www.soundsteps.uk/podcast-ask-question/
- 👩⚕️ Face-to-face AVT with Shefali Shah (London): https://soundsteps.uk
- 🌐 Online AVT sessions available via AVT Direct: https://avtdirect.com
- 🎓 Train online as an LSL professional in AVT: https://learnavt.com
- 📧 Contact Shefali directly: shefalishah@soundsteps.uk