Lyman Universe

Leah Coleman was born deaf and her mother, Rachel became frustrated that others couldn’t communicate with Leah. In an effort to help others be able to communicate with Leah, Rachel and her sister created a video series called Signing Time which anyone can learn from. This now airs on Public Television across the country.

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I posted some of the best pictures from our photo shoot last week and I promised that I would post the rest of the photo shoot so here there are. The first group of photos is from a photo shoot in November. The second photo shoot was done in mid-October.

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Here is the transcript of the audio recording of Nadine Virgina Harms that was recorded sometime in the early 1980′s. Special thanks to Paul Benton (Uncle Paul) for the transcript. I’ve included it as actual text in this post as well as a text file for download. Here is audio recording link if you haven’t listened to it yet.

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Nadine Virginia Harms
Recorded by Nadine Virgina Harms in the early 1980′s
Transcript by Paul Benton November 2007

Hi kids, this is grandma. Your mother invited me to your family home evening and asked me to tell you a little bit about my parents. My mother was Bertha Rubel. She was born in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California.

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