Comments on: When There is No Common Language with the Parent http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/2012/10/31/when-there-is-no-common-language-with-the-parent/ Teaching English as a FOREIGN language to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Fri, 24 May 2013 08:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://edublogs.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Naomi Epstein http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/2012/10/31/when-there-is-no-common-language-with-the-parent/comment-page-1/#comment-969 Naomi Epstein Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:55:15 +0000 http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/?p=1193#comment-969 Tyson,
oh, you name it! Whatever country you can name (O.k, less from Eastern Asia but that exists too)! Different periods of time had people coming form different countries of course. Don’t forget that as a modern state we are only 63 years old. Many immigrants of recent years are from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia.
You might enjoy peeking at David’s blog:
http://stillacanadian.blogspot.co.il/
Why I May Still Be Canadian
Naomi

]]> By: Tyson Seburn (@seburnt) http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/2012/10/31/when-there-is-no-common-language-with-the-parent/comment-page-1/#comment-968 Tyson Seburn (@seburnt) Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:03:39 +0000 http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/?p=1193#comment-968 I wish parents gave as much thought to their children’s education as they do to laying blame about it, for example.

I’m curious, where do immigrants typically come from in Israel?

]]> By: Naomi Epstein http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/2012/10/31/when-there-is-no-common-language-with-the-parent/comment-page-1/#comment-966 Naomi Epstein Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:32:13 +0000 http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/?p=1193#comment-966 Tyson,
I would imagine that at the university level teachers don’t deal with parents any more!
It is an awkward situation. Its a well known issue in immigrant families – how having the children act as interpreters affect the relationship within families. It is also a common situation with deaf families who have a hearing child. Our staff doesn’t have the latter situation because we use sign language. However, I’ve heard stories. Deaf people are allocated by the state a certain amount of free hours of interpreting. I know of deaf parents who decided being summoned to the principal’s office of thier child’s school (not ours, remember!) wasn’t reason enough to bring in an interepreter and they brought in the child to translate. You can imagine the translation was heavily censored!
Naomi

]]> By: Tyson Seburn (@seburnt) http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/2012/10/31/when-there-is-no-common-language-with-the-parent/comment-page-1/#comment-962 Tyson Seburn (@seburnt) Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:45:17 +0000 http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/?p=1193#comment-962 Thankfully, I have no interaction with the English-less parents of my students. It is forbidden at our university.

What a tricky situation that must be for you. I surmised half-way through that the interpreter son (hopefully) was not the son you teach. How awkward would that be! I think you must have done everything textbook for communication. Wow, that she is unable to communicate in the least. You’d think then that she’d send a guardian who could.

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