Mrs Bucket

When I first started in the semester, I chose to do a video of my father - a Culturally Deaf father and grandfather. You see, my father is a true testament to ASL.

My father was born and raised believing that ASL empowers language acquisition as an L1 because ASL enhances L2 acquisition. If not for ASL as L1, I would not have had English as L2.

This is where my father, my role model and my leader, believes that Deaf children must have bilingualism - ASL and English in the Deaf-centric learning environment. Deaf-centric meaning Deaf teachers for Deaf students as well as bilingualism.



This is my video reply affirming why bilingualism is vital to our community - both Deaf and hearing.



Enjoy and have a healthy debate about this.

Smile.

Deafness

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Lissa

Sorry but could you provide a transcript??

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rockdrummer

yes please for us poor slobs that are still learning ASL.

Frisky Feline

*leave a mark* i ll check it later meow.

souggy

Will get around to it once I finish the errands of today if no one else does it.

For awhile there, I thought I had to ask someone else to do the transcript because I got the gist of it-- but couldn't promise to give an accurate transcript since the videos were blurry. Found out it was because YouTube was lagging on me, so now the videos are clear once I got a stronger connection.

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posts from hell

What debate is there? I completely agree.

However - I have a deaf daughter too.

Frisky Feline

Really? cute. how old is your girl? i ll check the videos later.

shel90

Of course, for deaf children bilingualism is very very very important. Unfortunately, not many people believe in it.

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CJB

And us DB folk, too.