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We organized conducting the first time of Kids of Deaf Adults Workshop (KODA) in Delhi, India on 30th December, 2011 at Indian Social Institute, 10 Institutional Area, Lodi Road, New Delhi. There were about 20 hearing children & 20 deaf parents & 45 deaf members of Delhi Deaf Friendship Club, Gurgaon Deaf Friendship Club, Noida Deaf Friendship Club, Ghaziabad Deaf Friendship Club, Faridabad Deaf Friendship Club, Delhi Foundation of Deaf Women, Noida Deaf Society, Delhi Association of the Deaf, Silent Sports Promotion Society, & BAASL of IGNOU participating in the KODA Workshop.
Dr. Poorna Kushalnagar and Dr. Raja Kushalnager both are professors at RIT {Rochester Institute of Technology} (NTID {National Technical Institute for the Deaf}). They visited India with family and are happy to stop by in Delhi to present the KODA Workshop on 30th December 2011. Dr. Poorna has Ph.D. in Neuropscychology and Dr. Raja has Ph.D. in Computer Science.
We made a joint presentation on "Life in America”. This showed and told kind of presentation, which helped the members of hearing children of deaf parents learnt about a deaf family with hearing children growing in America. Education, jobs, communication, challenges of raising hearing kids, laws in America that helped deaf parent two (where would deaf parent two be if they were in India all the time?). The goal is for audience to know that with their support, deaf people can do anything. Dr. Poorna led the discussions about coping with deafness or something like that and included their two sons to show how they raise two hearing kids (KODA).
Dr. Raja teaches the advance computer teaching skills to computer deaf teachers. He is perhaps the only one deaf person in the world who has a Ph.D. in Computer Science.