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Originally Posted by traciedowell
I have NEVER told my students to attend Deaf events because I think it's a place for people to socialize who know each other and relate to each other. It would be like crashing a wedding you weren't invited to.
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Maybe it depends on what kind of deaf events take place in your area. In my area there are events where students are welcomed...as long as they have some basic knowledge or willingness to learn ASL, and a respect for the culture. In other words:
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Originally Posted by Bebonang
The problem is that we would like to have ASL students to communicate with us without asking us to teach them and also when they don't want to sign and start talking to other hearing people.
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That's exactly the kind of behaviors that I witnessed from the ASL 1 students who came to one event. Asking the deaf people to do things like translate song lyrics into ASL (without even providing them written down in English -- no thought that maybe a deaf person wouldn't know lyrics to a certain song!), or grouping together and talking without signing. Very rude. But there were other students there who did behave appropriately. It totally depends on what and how they're being taught.