Recent content by RilianSharp

I don't want to know my answer. I want to know why it is hard for the person who started the thread. I want her to describe how it is for her....

I didn't say it was/did. My little brother likes to leave the consonants out of his words. It's not gibberish when he says it, but he could use cued speech to indicate his rendition of words, too. And one can also indicate, with cued speech, the difference between different pronunciations...

How do you know that a small group of people who sign with each other would necessarily have contact with someone from the deaf community. And, I'm asking you to elaborate on what is the facets of the deaf community. That's why I signed up on this board.

Why are you reading stuff into my question that is not there? I don't see the part where I said, "Why is this so hard for you, dumby? It is easy-peasy for me-e!" I asked why it is hard. Care to shed light on my question or be you only rude? I don't see any grammatical errors that I made...

They would? How do you know? Please elaborate or direct me to a resource that would explain further.

Please, jillio. I meant that a deaf person or relative of a deaf person is not *automatically* in the deaf community. They must choose to be so. I'm sorry, I thought mainstreaming meant keeping one away from the deaf community and from signing for fear of limiting "potential" for the child...

Hm. Why is it so hard?

Learn to read Spanish. Solve problem. Or read French. But French is harder.

Someone said that the mother of a deaf person would be in the deaf community. Not so. With this post, you imply that if a deaf person is not part of the deaf community then they are part of no community and have no connections. That is also not true. Also, I had thought that, to the...

The History Channel!

I could use the cueing for random sounds that aren't words. That's the difference. If it were a manually coded language, as opposed to sounds, one could not use it to convey gibberish.

Not everyone who is deaf or associated with a deaf person is part of the "deaf community".

You realize I mean that everyone should learn a sign language, right? Also, it would not be a sudden change. It would allow for change, though, given that people do wish to keep their families together.

Cued speech is manually coded sound, not english.

I say I have hearing problems. In ASL class, teacher called the person with hearing aid HH and called us all others Hearing, but I tell her I'm HH. Then she played a video in class and I could not hear the words on the video and it did not have caption!