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Howdy! Great intro! And welcome!

Howdy, Monica! And: welcome!

Howdy! And, welcome! Sorry for your unfortunate experience. Take a look at www.lifeprint.com. Free online ASL lessons.

Interesting tip from my lifelong-Deaf ASL teacher: Sign in front of a mirror, but resist the temptation to "mouth" the English words while signing. If necessary, cover the mouth with something for awhile. Don't cover the face completely, just the mouth, sufficiently to not be able to see...

American Memorial Day is coming. Thought this a good time to remember my fellow Vets.

Just thinking I can't be the only one.

Are there ASL films with v-e-r-y b-a-s-i-c language? I am in ASL I. Plan to follow up with ASL II, but my ability to apprehend the signs is going to need lots of practice, at my very raw learning level I am figuring on using YouTube to loo for children's videos in Sign.

1. How long have you worn your hearing aids? Since 1983, when I was 23. (32 years) 2. For how long before you got your hearing aids did you suspect you had a hearing loss? Complicated: I had otosclerosis probably from birth. I had hearing loss until corrective surgery when I was 13. My...

Howdy! And, welcome!

Not happn'n that way. It'll take years for me to become passable in ASL, but I am seeking to achieve at least a workable competency. I don't aim to reach Interpreter fluency. Acquiring that skill set would take too long to be worthwhile at my age. But good enough to form friendships and...

Hoichi: Orthodox have many languages: Aramaic, koine Greek, Old Slavonic. "Subculture" is a scientific term and not a diminutive. The United States--and Canada--are nations of 'subcultures, meaning that ethnicity is not a significant part of what it means to hold citizenship in those...

Hoichi: Mormons and Orthodox have 'cultures' as well. Including group-speak and elements of dialect; and, (in the case of Orthodox), language. They have art, poetry, and literature unique among themselves (look up "Mollywood" for examples of Mormon filmmaking, for example: They have forms and...

"Analogy"--"similarity" or "approximate parallel". In this case, between 'lifelong Deaf' who accept late-Deafened/HoH/Oralist Deaf as "Deaf enough", and GLBT persons who reccognized themselves early in life and their acceptance of GLBT persons who come to that community after a lifetime of...

I, like others, wonder at the "We" you presume to speak for. Based, admittedly, upon limited experience, I don't think most Deaf folks see themselves part of an exclusive club to which I and othe HoH people can only be admitted if we learn ASL and abandon all use of our oral language skills...

Howdy! And, welcome!

Howdy! And welcome!

Or how about the Deaf Awareness Weekend at the Renaissance Faire, May 30 & 31? See ya there! I'll be the ugly one with the cane. The one who's only just learning to sign! LoL!

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Howdy! Welcome! Best of luck with your surgery and sorry for your troubles. In my prayers.

This Wednesday will mark my SECOND class in ASL. I am 55 years old. I was HoH throughout most of my school years, gained a 'respite' by the time I was 13 via surgery: my hearing was rendered good enough to enable me to even join the Army at 18. But during service, my hearing worsened again...