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Mrs Bucket

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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.

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

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Enjoy and have a healthy debate about this.

Smile. :)
 
Lissa said:
Sorry but could you provide a transcript??
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rockdrummer said:
yes please for us poor slobs that are still learning ASL.
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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.
 
Of course, for deaf children bilingualism is very very very important. Unfortunately, not many people believe in it.
 
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