gina.mattson
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Hi!
I'm a 20 yr old hearing student taking intermediate ASL in college over in Ashland, OR! My grandpa was HOH my entire childhood, he got kicked in the head by a horse when he was young and went basically deaf. So it was hard to communicate with him, he would make comments to people, but never had full conversations, just greeted and showed affection to family. My grandma would write notes to him if he couldn't read lips. In high school I thought maybe if I learned asl I'd be able to communicate with him better, but realized he doesn't sign either. So it was sort of unfortunate. But i took 3 years of ASL in high school and I loved it, so now I'm continuing learning ASL, trying to get better and more advanced/fluent. I'm a psychology major at my school, and take ASL for fun/credits whatever, but I love the language and sense of community in deaf culture! So I'm looking for someone to skype with, get to know, practice signing, share stories, whatever! I'm on Skype, name ginamattson (it'll say I'm from Concord, CA though), if anyone wants to chat please respond or message me on skype :]
Cheers!
-Gina
I'm a 20 yr old hearing student taking intermediate ASL in college over in Ashland, OR! My grandpa was HOH my entire childhood, he got kicked in the head by a horse when he was young and went basically deaf. So it was hard to communicate with him, he would make comments to people, but never had full conversations, just greeted and showed affection to family. My grandma would write notes to him if he couldn't read lips. In high school I thought maybe if I learned asl I'd be able to communicate with him better, but realized he doesn't sign either. So it was sort of unfortunate. But i took 3 years of ASL in high school and I loved it, so now I'm continuing learning ASL, trying to get better and more advanced/fluent. I'm a psychology major at my school, and take ASL for fun/credits whatever, but I love the language and sense of community in deaf culture! So I'm looking for someone to skype with, get to know, practice signing, share stories, whatever! I'm on Skype, name ginamattson (it'll say I'm from Concord, CA though), if anyone wants to chat please respond or message me on skype :]
Cheers!
-Gina