Recent content by kdl88

I had dogs and cats together when I was a kid. Now I only have cats.

Thank you all for your replies.

Sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a few cats that tend to have long names. Not really long, but 10 letters or so. I'm just curious being that I didn't grow up in a Deaf home, I wouldn't know the answer to this, but if you have several pets of the same type (4 cats, 3 dogs, whatever)...

I actually just got invited about 1/2 hour ago to join my CODA friends parents to a Deaf Poker club. What a great opportunity. Meeting new people, playing poker and ASL are all things I really enjoy and I'll get a chance to do all of them at once! I'm both excited and nervous! Believe me...

You might want to check into a condition called Hyperacusis... might be what you are experiencing.

Thank you again Reba. Everyone else, I'm still looking to hear from your experiences as well, there's no right or wrong answer. :)

Yes, I actually met Mike a couple of times (past president of CAD; he lives with my friends parents). I haven't had much luck finding any events or really anything for CT on the CRID site. I'm in the process of trying to convince my wife to go to the Deaf awareness day at Lake Compounce...

Thank you for your responses by the way! I do appreciate it. Yeah I've been to that site. Lots of information there. I'm not at the level yet to do interpreting by a long shot. Not yet anyway. :) Definitely not something I would do (using people as study buddies), though my CODA...

That's actually where I am taking classes - ASD = American School for the Deaf. Maybe I need to be patient and wait for the fall classes because right now the place is a ghost town. I go from 6 PM - 8 PM and as I mentioned, no interpreters other than my teacher. I tried asking her questions...

Hello, I am a not bad but not great signer taking community night classes at ASD. I really love the language and am picking it up fairly easily so far (for whatever reason). I am thinking about possibly training to become an interpreter. My question is once I have finished the level 3...

Didn't I say that above? heh

Hello, thank you for the welcome! Sarfarigirl... do you know of any events in CT that Deaf frequent?

That's quite OK. I thought I was messed up for a minute there. Thanks everyone for their input, I appreciate it!

I guess I'm confused then. Here is where I am getting my reference. I'm just making sure I'm talking about the right thing. Contact sign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia contact signing / pidgin signed english I don't think it is for Deaf-Blind based on the above, but I don't pretend to be...

Ironically, CASE (first time I've heard of it) sounds like what I probably do when I sign without realizing it now that I think about it. I try to avoid SEE (no offense to whoever uses it) and to use ASL as much as I know how. I'm sure I'm somewhere in between the two and it is probably a form...