I was just reading an article about a man who used assitive technology to speak directly with his wifes deaf family without her help.
It made me consider how much I appreciated the effort that my deaf ASL instrutor puts forth to teach me and the effort that I have to put in to learn.
The only time that we used a translator was our first day, only to explain the course overview. It just would have been far to difficult for us to comprehend. Teaching or learning another language without...

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