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If there really IS only one in the UK, it would explain a lot... he's probably the only one to exist outside the exclusive signing area, in mainstream, which isn't the same thing, but sad really...

It's no different from deaf activists who say why are hearing tutors teaching deaf people is it ? Deaf people CANNOT teach children awareness of auditory needs or hearing ways, which they have to learn to deal with unless they plan Never to step outside the deaf community. However it is...

I've always advocated sign lessons should be free to anyone who wants to learn it. We are defeated by deaf groups who make a living out of the classes, so want the fees. There is NOTHING to stop any native sign user from producing lessons themselves for downloading, look at it as a means of...

Took 'em long enough I've been campaigning about this 11 YEARS. There's virtually no signed terp access to most NHS services at all. There is no emergency cover mostly, deaf here rely on Friends/relatives. Advice is this is causing the problem ! by deceasing demand for official support. Deaf...

I'm confused, are they HI or deaf ? They're 'deaf' for these pages, HI for any other ? Why does everyone get the 'deaf' label on being noted here ?

They're all getting out and leaving the activists to run the Uni, now watch the ASL community there turn on each other, after all, there will be no-one else left....

At least you are accepting the fact, which is good to see, but it's no use ASL 'leaders' chatting amongst themselves, that's patronisation, (them deciding whether they will go for inclusion sounds pretty bad doesn't it ?). They have to engage the other deaf too, or no-one will listen to them...

Fernandez had the right view, whatever these protesters say or do. The deaf world HAS changed, and the ASL part of that, has not. What we are seeing is the last desperate push of ASL/cultural activism to resist that change, it's a battle won in isolation, via a 'war' that is global. The...

So if Fernandez HAD (In your eyes), identified ASL users at Gallaudet were NOT tackling issues of deaf/Dear/Oral divisions seriously, but just wanted an ASL cultural university, you would have backed her ? Even if that meant lesser power to ASL users and equal sharing of Gallaudet's directions...

Curiouser and Curiouser, Jane Identifies problems, but is never given the chance to try solving them, story of the ASL activist life isn't it ? no changes please we are 'Deaf', (and DON'T you forget it). This was the real damage that was done to the community, it reared the ugly head of...

Again I don't WANT to be pedantic,but are you or the students who protested QUALIFIED to decide who is hired at the University ? Who are these 'equal' and better-qualified people ? non-ASL using ? hearing ? what ? I fear r they DID forget the educational bit, they stopped lessons happening...

Style ? please elaborate,without (A) mentioning her late usage of ASL (B) Her abysmal qualifications (And how qualified YOU are to give a view on it), (C) It makes a difference if she spoke, signs, or lip-reads, and......... Is being a Uni president a celebrity contest or something in America ...

I don't think the scars will heal, there is already triumphalism being spouted on the pro blogs/sites (Many of which ran hate campaigns, offered personal abuse, and plain dis-informed deaf people, the battle was won on the blogs, not on the campus. It has polarised views, many may now look on...

Paddy Ladd never went to tent city, nor did anyone else who signed the protest letter sent to Gallaudet BOT,they bunged an e-mail to the few in London who tried a tent city, and took no further part. Doug Alker who also signed the letter, was voted out of the RNID in the UK, because he wasn't...

20 people who packed up after 5 hours..... erm... fact sorry ! I SUGGEST IN THE INTERESTS OF ENTENTE' CORDIAL WE AGREE TO DIFFER. :cheers:

Unfortunately it's the 'facts' as YOU see them, not as I do. I thank the stars there is no Gallaudet here in the UK and we at least are moving towards closer integration of the deaf and mainstream, we're an Island, but not an island mentality, America has coined a new idea, the continental...

Possibly the concept of a 'leader' of a community via a University head, is alien to most of us outside America, after all there is only one deaf Uni, there's no yardstick for us to use. The UK has barely 30 schools left for the deaf, all our battles are in the mainstream. I thought King...

Why DO deaf people need figureheads ? Perhaps it's an American thing.... I don't see one deaf or HI person any more important than any other one (Radical I know !). Is it because these 'icons' fight for our access ? we don't ? Let whoever run the Uni, deaf people can make their own way. MY...

If she is forced to leave, she's going to sue their ass off...... she hasn't gone this far for nothing. Cue another court case and another huge row.......

You NEED to care, that's the problem. Ignoring worries and concerns about the not deaf enough stance IS a major b*ll breaker everywhere, we've no real idea, who said what, it accelerated too fast and the deaf blogs of Ridor and others clouded everything in hours so there is no real way to know...