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I have been busy exploring real life and now I am back online!! does anyone here write fanfiction as a hobby? I really like Star Wars and I look forward to the new movie: Revenge of the Sith!! :applause: Any other scifi fans out there? :D Let's :bsflag:

I sign PSE and pidgin English. Not.."tweet-tweet" pidgin but a mixture of American sign language and English. I am understood by most of my Deaf friends and I lived with a fingerspelling Deaf-Blind woman,.who constantly fingerspelled in ABSOLUTELY PERFECT ENGLISH like a book!! She...

Any language, whether ASL or English,... is better than no language at all! Some Deaf Children of hearing parents have NO language till they go to school at age five or six. My niece was one of these children. She was six years old and all the "professionals" said that she was...

wOW! INTERESTING DISCUSSION! Not too much that I can add to all that! :scatter: ....Stanelle

Blind folk use the word.."see"....as in the sense..of... "Oh! I understand!" Example: A blind person says, "I see what you mean!" What they are really saying is,.."I understand what you mean!" Perhaps the Deaf use a statement like.."I've heard of you!" in the sense that "I've gotten...

HAPPY nEW YEAR! gROGGY FROM HEADACHE!! :eek:

Howdy! Howdy! Perhaps,..if you do go on to be an orthodontist,..you might remember the friends that you are going to meet here! :popcorn:

Deaf,..Margie,..or... dis-ABLED. However,.I don't believe that the Deaf are REALLY to be counted among the dis-ABLED. A DEAF PERSON,..WITH THE PROPER EDUCATION,..CAN WALK, TALK,..THINK,..SOLVE PROBLEMS AND DO EVERYTHING THAT ANY HEARING PERSON CAN DO. I would elaborate more on this,..but...

I think that both languages..ASL and English should be taught simultaniously,.. if possible, but I also think that just getting a language of any type and the concept of language into a child before the age of three is vastly more important than worrying about which language is the first...

Before you folks worry about teaching deaf kids how to write down language,.. you had better worry about teaching deaf kids under the age of five,..especially the children of hearing parents,..the concept of LANGUAGE!! I have worked with tooooomany deaf kids, who were labled mentally...

Any education is better than NO education!! Education = language!! Why do deaf people have poor reading and writing scores? Because they don't learn the use of the English language until they are sometimes almost four and five years old when they start to school!! And people in this world...

I am not surprised. My husband and I NEVER use a "drive-through" unless our son is with us!! We always go inside any fast food store. We look at the menu very carefully and try to place our orders as accurately as possible..with voice only. We still get funny looks when we speak. One...

I've been gone since July!! :bump: So I am bumping this thread ahead in the threadline!! Heh! Hello,..again! "Everything old..is new,..again!"

A deaf blind lady that I once lived with.... said that she would rather be blind than deaf as the blind can hear and communicate with the world outside of themselves from the day that they were born. Myself,..as I had no choice in the matter,..I would say deaf as I like to drive and I...

I think that these "Amish"..... people are not really practicing Amish but what are known as "meidung" Amish. These are young people, who have left the strict practices of their "home-growing-up" religion and have taken to the ways of the world!! I think that UPN is being taken for a ride...

I also live in Amish country..in Ohio in Stark county. Many of us are related directly and indirectly to the Amish and can lip-read German and English. If you don't follow "exactly" the "church practices," then you are "meidung" or cast out of the church and no one will associate with you...

Hmmmmmmmmph! To the unfair German law! Still did you know that just a short time ago that if you were deaf or deaf-blind in the United States that you could be put in a "mental insitution"..just because you were deaf or deaf blind? There is a book,..Walking Free: The Nellie Zimmerman Story by...

Total communication is a very good way to speak to everyone. I go to deaf church occasionally and by speaking and signing at the same time, I have access to both the hearing and the deaf worlds. The hearing family members, who do not sign, of some of the deaf in church will come to me and ask...

Accccccck! Change of name! I have had to change my online name from Stanelle Yoder to mysteriesofthes. I have a deaf friend, who uses that online name and she objected to me using that name! Same person now as person who started this post. Just a name change!!

Thanks for all of the nice greetings. I had to change my online name due to another friend of mine, who is deaf,..having a similar online name. :-o I look forward to communicating with all of you as you all seem like nice and friendly folk!! :ily: