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    Students Looking for ASL buddies

    I have set up Skype finally... name is chipmunkis on Skype too. Please be patient with me signing; I am recovering from dislocated should AND broken arm so I have limited ROM in L arm for now...hopefully I will improve, but some two-handed signs are hard for me to manage now. Looking...
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    DOD Asks: How Would You Feel Showering With Gays?

    As a straight woman, I don't care if the other women in the showers are all lesbians. I'm not.... and no one is trying to jump my bones in the showers... so who cares? Some people seem to think that all gay people are just waiting for the opportunity to jump the first person they see...which...
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    Quick Progress--NOT mine either

    That's awesome! We use the Signing Time DVDs with our students and the kids love them...
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    Why do you want to be a interpreter?

    I wanted to be an interpreter because I think ASL is beautiful language and I think everyone should have the right to access all information... was working towards it, then had my son, who was very preemie and has health issues/ physical disabilities...so going to school for Interpreter program...
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    Students Looking for ASL buddies

    Thanks... I have to set up Skype...haven't done yet. I will let you know when i do! That's great and I will!
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    From Canada...

    I grew up in Vancouver.. but moved long time ago!
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    From Canada...

    I am a 2 hour ferry trip and about 3 hours of driving away from Vancouver! All the Deafblind people I know are kids....
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    From Canada...

    I'm in BC...Vancouver Island. TY for the welcome!:D
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    Students Looking for ASL buddies

    Is this Skype thing happening? Any particular time/ day? I would love to practice with someone... my receptive has gotten worse since I work mostly with kids who are Deafblind, so I do most of the signing, and it's turned into a bit of a mix between ASL and signed English... not quite either...
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    From Canada...

    do you have skye, or MSN with a videocam? (and thank you!)
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    Man, 24, Gets 20 Years In 'Sexting' Case

    I agree! Big difference!
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    From Canada...

    thanks! :D
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    Do you feel that hearing teachers restrict Deaf children in learning?

    new here...but jumping in anyhow...:D This guy you're talking about it an ass. I took my ASL at Douglas College (BC) and all my instructors were Deaf. Thank GOD!!! I learned so much more by being immersed in the language than I would have had I been able to rely on my hearing!!! I HAD to learn...
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    Career dreams shattered by disability?

    New here... hope I can jump in with my two cents... I am hearing, and it pisses me off when anyone is treated with less respect because they are Deaf, or because they are not a carbon copy of what some moron thinks everyone should be.... My son has a physical disability, and I know we have...
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    From Canada...

    :wave: Hi! I am hearing, working as a Deafblind Intervenor with students who are Deafblind, and often have additional issues, such as Down Syndrome...so I use sign language, but not always ASL, depending on the physical and intellectual abilities of my student. I think ASL is a beautiful...
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