This is old submission from FA lets me show to what I like to drawing for her don't understand with my sign language that why before bumps into someone who signs happen.
Zig zag: (hearing) Hey, excuse me watch your back!
Boxice: (deaf) Oh I'm so sorry I can't hear I'm Deaf (with my american sign language)
Zig zag: (hearing) What the... (I don't understand to him say) Hmm?
Boxice: (Deaf) *sigh*
SORRY: (The heart is circled, to indicate feeling, modified by the letter "S," for SORRY.) The right "S" hand, palm facing the body, is rotated several times over the area of the heart. and...
DEAF: (Deaf and mute.) The tip of the extended right index finger touches first the right ear and then the closed lips.
So am I. I had a hearing deficiency from birth, and it gradually got worse. Last Dec. I was hit by a thug and lost even more hearing. I wear a good -and expensive- hearing aide, the latest one after that attack. (see my journals. I don't care to reiterate the details all over again !). I still enjoy good music, tho.
So am I. I had a hearing deficiency from birth, and it gradually got worse. Last Dec. I was hit by a
Wherever deaf people congregate, they will work out a way to communicate if allowed (there has been opposition to sign languages from authorities who don't understand what it truly means to be deaf). Look up Nicaraguan Sign Language for an excellent example of this.
Wherever deaf people congregate, they will work out a way to communicate if allowed (there has been
Now that's a problem... if you have no choice but sign language on the occasion you can't hear and can talk or can't talk and can hear or a combination of both why do people who actually can hear and speak have a problem with you. That's so F'ed up
Now that's a problem... if you have no choice but sign language on the occasion you can't hear and c
Because the emphasis was on making deaf people fit into the hearing world, rather than making allowances. The theory was that using sign language impeded the learning of lipreading and speech. If the deaf were -forced- to lipread, they'd learn better. It took a LONG time before educators finally got it through their skulls that sign language wasn't the real impediment. The actual impediments include:
-- Many deaf have little or no memory of any kind of sound, never mind speech -- Lipreading in and of itself is inexact. There is no visual cue of whether consonants are voiced or unvoiced (d/t, j/ch, g/k), and in some languages, a rolled R and a regular R are seperate sounds (in Spanish, a rolled R is written "rr" and treated as a seperate sound. For example, caro and carro mean "car" and "expensive", respectively)
So how could teachers and educators not realize this? Four words: "We Are The Experts".
Because the emphasis was on making deaf people fit into the hearing world, rather than making allowa
Nicaraguan Sign Language is interesting because linguists convinced educators to let it develop, and simply watched as children at a school for the deaf hashed out their own language.
Nicaraguan Sign Language is interesting because linguists convinced educators to let it develop, and
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