The Deaf Community

BecLak said:
I'm with Shel and PFH. I was never told about sign language or the Deaf community at all. I discovered them only recently after 40 years of going the oral way with HA etc, which was dictated to me and my parents by hearing medical professionals and specialists.

I was happy growing up when there weren't issues pertaining to my deafness. But I went through a lot of struggles and negative experiences that could have been avoided had I been given the option of Sign language and knowing the Deaf Community. How can anyone make good choices if they are not given the full picture?

It is forums like AD that help bridge that gap. Thanks AD.
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Make me another. Shel & I have had a few of the same experiences regarding our hearing loss and growing up.
 
BecLak said:
.......................................... How can anyone make good choices if they are not given the full picture?

It is forums like AD that help bridge that gap. Thanks AD.
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I completly agree with you on the full picture. Nobody should make any decisions without having access to all of the information and choices that are available to them.
 
HHIssues said:
Have you ever taken the oral, auditory, speech, lipreading and mainstreaming route yourself?
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The more you talk, the more of an idiot you seem - please go and take the time to read.. or learn how to read, instead of 'listening to the forum' like frisky said, yer not hearing much here....

souggy said:
He mentioned this many time while debating with you.
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Frisky Feline said:
Yeah He mentioned them. How can you miss it? oh listening to this thread? :hmm:
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heh.. people just kill me..
 
HHIssues said:
Have you ever taken the oral, auditory, speech, lipreading and mainstreaming route yourself?
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Wait, hold up here...

I apologize for calling you an idiot. I should make an example out of you and Drphil here..

Both of you are deaf, both of you prefer to be oral, both of you guys can't read...

THANK YOU.
 
posts from hell said:
Wait, hold up here...

I apologize for calling you an idiot. I should make an example out of you and Drphil here..

Both of you are deaf, both of you prefer to be oral, both of you guys can't read...

THANK YOU.
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I don't see how this is constructive -- every single one of us -- you included (me too) -- has asked questions on this forum that someone, somewhere, may have previously answered in some other context, addressing some other question or person, or even months back in the same thread. I sure don't have the CVs and educational background of every person on this forum memorized, and just as I might say to a colleague I know well 'you went to what school, again?, there's no offense in asking a straight up question that's relevant to the immediate discussion. These threads can go long and get really wound up -- sometimes it's hard to recognize any relationship with the orig. post after a few pages.

It's so easy to get all trigger happy, I know, I've done it myself and more often regretted it than not, but it's getting crazy how people just keeping calling each other out on a personal level rather than addressing issues and getting past misunderstandings by clarifying. Get past this, all of you. All of us.
 
GrendelQ said:
I don't see how this is constructive -- every single one of us -- you included (me too) -- has asked questions on this forum that someone, somewhere, may have previously answered in some other context, addressing some other question or person, or even months back in the same thread. I sure don't have the CVs and educational background of every person on this forum memorized, and just as I might say to a colleague I know well 'you went to what school, again?, there's no offense in asking a straight up question that's relevant to the immediate discussion. These threads can go long and get really wound up -- sometimes it's hard to recognize any relationship with the orig. post after a few pages.

It's so easy to get all trigger happy, I know, I've done it myself and more often regretted it than not, but it's getting crazy how people just keeping calling each other out on a personal level rather than addressing issues and getting past misunderstandings by clarifying. Get past this, all of you. All of us.
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I totally agree. Just because someone hasn't memorized what school you went to, what language you grew up using, and how "oral" you are, does not mean that they can't read.

Can you imagine the firestorm that would rain down if a hearing person accused an ASL user of being unable to read??? If the hearing person made fun of their writing? AUDISM, much? PFH is doing EXACTLY the same thing. He is saying that oral people and spoken language are inferior to ASL and ASL users.
 
Oh and PFH there is big money in Deaf schools, interpreting, and VRS. All those things make money off Deaf people who use ASL.
 
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Interpreting? Many interpreters are working two or three jobs ontop of interpreting. Where's the money in that? VRS? Sure, they're on the FCC's lifeline and FCC is steadily marginalizing the profits to being on par with the operating cost. Sure, the scandals are there, but there's scandals in any field-- and I am sure the CI industry have a scandal cooking up right now if it hasn't been exposed yet. Deaf schools? Okay, sure, I can see that. Hard to say government-funded jobs are "big money" though.
 
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faire_jour said:
Oh and PFH there is big money in Deaf schools, interpreting, and VRS. All those things make money off Deaf people who use ASL.
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I dont make BIG money as a teacher. TODs at public schools make more money than TODs at the Deaf schools.
 
shel90 said:
I dont make BIG money as a teacher. TODs at public schools make more money than TODs at the Deaf schools.
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I meant the industry as a whole. It costs 10x as much to educate a child at a Deaf school than at a mainstream school.
 
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