agentpigeon
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You need to get a job, so you set up an appointment and meet with a prospective employer. It just so happens that you are deaf, but that doesn't matter to her. She knows you are capable of doing your job and hires you on the spot.
We all need to be able to get a job, so we can pay our bills and continue living. Unfortunately, sometimes it can be harder to land a job if you are deaf, because many hearing are ignorant of what deaf are like and what they are capable of. Hearing can be scared, not knowing anything about these ordinary individuals who are a little different from them.
You can do something about the hearing's ignorance. You can help me spread knowledge and awareness about deaf culture and ASL. I've been into ASL for six years and am getting into deaf culture myself. (I joined this website last summer and have been following the conversations since then. ) As part of my studies, I'm part of an ASL club at my university, and my club has assigned me as their temporary representative to the community.
My job is to ask you, the deaf community and those connected with it (interpreters, university professors), to share with me your knowledge. I have 18 questions for you, and my goal is to get 15 answers in the form of articles. Please go here to find the questions and the official project document - https://docs.google.com/View?docid=ddm5246n_113hjvkvmfh . I would like them to be about 500 words in length, but they can be as short as 150 words. If you don't feel confident in your writing abilities, I will gladly edit them for you. If you have experience with the topic, you are perfectly qualified to write on it, no matter your writing skills, and I am eager to read about it! Just respond to this post with whatever you write. Once I get 15 answers to the questions, they will be sent out to the ASL club members every week during the upcoming semester and, after that, compiled and submitted to the campus library, after which the compilation will be available nationwide by inter-library loan.
Remember, by helping me out and writing, you will be helping to spread knowledge and awareness of deaf culture and ASL, first to the NCU ASL club, and then to the rest of the hearing community. Please write! Who knows? Maybe someday, nobody will be ignorant of what deaf are like, and getting a job won't depend on whether or not you're "different."
We all need to be able to get a job, so we can pay our bills and continue living. Unfortunately, sometimes it can be harder to land a job if you are deaf, because many hearing are ignorant of what deaf are like and what they are capable of. Hearing can be scared, not knowing anything about these ordinary individuals who are a little different from them.
You can do something about the hearing's ignorance. You can help me spread knowledge and awareness about deaf culture and ASL. I've been into ASL for six years and am getting into deaf culture myself. (I joined this website last summer and have been following the conversations since then. ) As part of my studies, I'm part of an ASL club at my university, and my club has assigned me as their temporary representative to the community.
My job is to ask you, the deaf community and those connected with it (interpreters, university professors), to share with me your knowledge. I have 18 questions for you, and my goal is to get 15 answers in the form of articles. Please go here to find the questions and the official project document - https://docs.google.com/View?docid=ddm5246n_113hjvkvmfh . I would like them to be about 500 words in length, but they can be as short as 150 words. If you don't feel confident in your writing abilities, I will gladly edit them for you. If you have experience with the topic, you are perfectly qualified to write on it, no matter your writing skills, and I am eager to read about it! Just respond to this post with whatever you write. Once I get 15 answers to the questions, they will be sent out to the ASL club members every week during the upcoming semester and, after that, compiled and submitted to the campus library, after which the compilation will be available nationwide by inter-library loan.
Remember, by helping me out and writing, you will be helping to spread knowledge and awareness of deaf culture and ASL, first to the NCU ASL club, and then to the rest of the hearing community. Please write! Who knows? Maybe someday, nobody will be ignorant of what deaf are like, and getting a job won't depend on whether or not you're "different."