Press Release
Vote for Deaf Toddlers and Help the Finalist, Clerc’s Children To Win the
50K grant by Pepsi Refresh Project Today and Every Day in August 2010
Santa Monica, CA August 18, 2010 – Clerc’s Children Inc. was accepted into
Pepsi’s Refresh Project 50K category, which allows people across America to
vote for top ten refreshing idea in enhancing America to receive the grant.
Out of thousand submissions, Clerc’s Children project was accepted for
August 2010 entry. At the press time, Clerc’s Children shot up from among
the bottom 1,000 th place to 37 th place, a considerable feat, attesting to
the power of people’s votes. Clerc’s Children hopes to inspire the
community members to become a dedicated voters and vote daily in August to
elevate Clerc’s Children to top ten and win the 50K grant!
By voting for Clerc’s Children’s idea, the voter is enhancing the lives of
families with deaf toddlers. 90 % of deaf toddlers are entering
Kindergarten either with severe delay in language or has little or no
language skills. When Clerc’s Children wins the grant, the current beta
website, designed to empower parents with tools and provides bilingual
educational curriculum for deaf toddlers at home, will be ready for launch
by January 2011.
There are three ways to vote: 1) Vote directly:
http://www.refresheverything.com/4DeafToddlers, search for “Clerc’s
Children” and vote. 2) Text Vote: To: 73774 Msg:101469 then send. 3) Vote
on Facebook: “Like” and download “Pepsi Refresh Voting App” then search
“Clerc’s Children” and vote. See our video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh1sQ3coKkU See flyer attached. (see
below) To understand the great need for our bilingual language development
website supporting parents at home, see the interview by hearing parents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8cnaoH4IY
While Clerc’s Children is designed for parents of Deaf toddlers, it is also
beneficial to all toddlers because the hand coordination naturally develops
among infants/toddlers before the vocal cord does. So America Sign Language
(ASL) meets the child’s cognitive development and language acquisition needs
at early age before speaking could. This is why signing among hearing
infants is popular however signing is not encouraged or is lightly mentioned
to the parents whose infant had just failed newborn hearing screen because
of myth and misinformation such as Sign Language interferes with speaking
skills among deaf children however research shows differently.
“First there has never been an real evidence that learning to sign
interferes with Deaf Children’s learning to speak. In fact, early sign
language consistently has been shown to have beneficial effects on learning
spoken language.”
Raising & Educating Deaf Child, Dr. Marc Marschark
Contact:, CEO/Visionary/Parent, Clerc’s Children Inc
(310) 431-7604 (Text only please) or (424) 214-0820
http://www.clercschildren.com
Email: [email protected]
Terrylene Sacchetti
Visionary | CEO | Parent
Clerc’s Children
HAVE YOU VOTED TODAY?
http://www.refresheverything.com/4DeafToddlers
Text vote also, It’s free – To:73774 Msg: 101469 then send!
Thanks!
e. [email protected]
w. http://www.clercschildren.com
t. http://www.tweet.com/clercschildren
fb. http://www.facebook.com/clercschildren
u. http://www.youtube.com/clercschildren
Download flyer: (JPG format)
http://deafnetwork.com/wordpress/download/461/