Recent content by mcg907

This is sort of an old thread, but I thought I might bring some life back to it. I am presenting at an International conference at Bridgewater State in Massachusetts on the 27th. This conference is about the Deaf and the Criminal Justice system. Being Deaf in prison is a big civil rights...

CART isn't necessarily perfect either. I asked for CART in a deposition I was defending and the CART operator didn't have programmed modules for some of the words and things ended up being weird. There were terps for my client and CART for me - so I divided my attention between the legal terps...

We do in the Boston area. I know a lot of seriously HoH or oral deaf who go to Deaf Inc. in Allston. $200 per class. Ouch! But after about 3 classes and one immersion for a week I am using apps and going to meetups. There are a number of Deaf who come to meetups and interestingly, the oral...

I do so wish that I had been given a bilingual education - ASL and English. I could hear enough (mostly) to do sort of okay in mainstream school, but if I'd had both I would be so much better off now. Then again, when I was a child there was just Deaf School or living at home and going to...

Yes. YES. YES!!!! :shock: :eek3:

I was born hearing and still had residual hearing (fairly good) on one side as I was growing up. My parents mainstreamed me and rather than putting me in "speech therapy" (because I couldn't really be HoH, you know) I was in singing lessons (don't ask :jaw:) for years. I've gotten to the...

The disability officer at my law school used to insist I was not HoH despite seeing my audiogram, reading a letter from my ENT and seeing my hearing aid. He kept saying, "But you hear just fine..." Finally I lost my temper and said, "Any you believe you think just fine..." Argh!

I have never really been able to participate in family gatherings. I lost my hearing at age 18 months and although I do have some residual hearing it certainly isn't sufficient to deal with family gatherings with lots of people. I generally focus on the person directly across from me or the...

This is a tough one. Without ASL I'm not quite sure what would happen to the Deaf Culture and Community. Language is the repository of culture. I do know that my first boyfriend (profoundly deaf) would probably have spent his life in an institution as his parents and the doctors thought he...

Are you looking to be a CDI? Or a terp?

English is a recongizable language in the US, but there is no "offical" language in the US. It would take a change in the Constitution to do that else an "official" language would violate Equal Protection, Due Process and a few other things.

Contact the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in your state and see what they can do.

Sounds like one of those scammer letters you see on dating sites... just sayin...

When I was young I was told to call myself "half deaf." In the 1980's I was told to call myself "hearing impaired." Two years ago I was told to call myself "Hard of Hearing" because hearing impaired has negative implications for the Deaf that they are impaired in some way. I sure do get worn...

Where in S. NH? Are you going to go to the meetup on Dec. 1 at the Mall in Salem? I live in the Andover area.