Welcome

We are hearing.  Our daughter, Shea, was born deaf.  She is now 2 years old and has an extensive American Sign Language vocabulary.  We began teaching Shea (and ourselves) ASL when she was just 3 months old.  Her first sign was 'MILK' when she was 5 months old.  Since then she has just taken off!  Hence the name Signing With Shea - that's our life - signing with our daughter and loving every minute.  We have created this blog to give insight and support to other families in the same situation, as well as a way to learn about American Sign Language, Deaf Culture or the Deaf Community.  We will do our best to answer, or at least point you in the right direction if it's something we don't know.

I'll write about daily events, my thoughts on deafness and things we're doing to help raise our daughter to be a happy, well-adjusted child in a world full of craziness.  I'll discuss choices that parents of deaf children have to make, which choices we've made, why we chose that path and what the outcome is.

We have also created a Facebook page where we upload a video daily of Shea doing a sign, to help our friends and family learn ASL in a fun and easy way.  Please visit and 'like' her page at Signing With Shea on Facebook.

We'll have good days and bad days, we'll laugh and we'll cry, but in the end, we'll do it all together!