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    Question, again.

    Well I can tell you that deaf people have a beautiful culture. They have deaf pride and they have a very strong comraderie and loyalty among themselves. They essentially have to because they have had the hearing world belittle them which is truly sad. Anyways, when you meet them they want to...
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    Interpreters and Voicing

    Wow!! This is such a neat discussion. I am an amateur at ASL maybe ASL III now. I have been involved with ASL for 6 months now. I am proficient in PSE however but really love ASL so much better. Well my receptive skills are getting pretty decent which prior to joining my ASL deaf Group since...
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    Studying Deaf Education

    Why are residential schools lacking in education? It seems to me if you have hearing fluent ASL teachers and the curriculum involves heavy english and speech therapy along with ASL as the main language, then deaf should do just as well as mainstreamed hearing kids. There must be something wrong...
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    Thoughtful of Deaf World

    Wow!! That was true biz raw emotion. Print this out and show your feelings. Let them read how you feel. Tell them it is not loving for them to dismiss you because you are deaf. You are a human being just like them and have a basic human need to be involved in your family's world. Tell them if...
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    Why did God pick people to be deaf?

    The Bible explains why people are deaf. According to the Bible, in the beginning, adam and eve were perfect with no disabilities. If they hadn't sinned we all would be perfect living in a perfect world. Soon that will happen again. But back the what I was saying, God told them that the wages...
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    ASL or English signing??

    ASL is cool I think deaf and hh should learn english for reading and speaking purposes if possible. But I think ASL is an integral part of being deaf and just as no one seems to tell spanish people they should use one dialect over the other, no one should even consider ASL stupid. Why? Because...
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    I am new here

    Hi everyone. My name is robbielyn and I am hearing. I have always been extremely fascinated with sign language since I was 12. I did some religious interpreting during my lifetime in pse. Now I have joined a religious deaf group and am learning ASL. I wish I was almost deaf without hearing aids...
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