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No, of course it's not comparable. Maybe similar in some ways, but DEFINITELY not anywhere close to the same. But yeah, I was thinking maybe Asperger's and maybe deafness is their special interest? (Or maybe not. Evaluators thought it was mine, and they were way off. :P)

Umm... since when does federal law REQUIRE mainstreaming? It requires the least restrictive environment, and anybody who thinks that mainstreaming is always the least restrictive doesn't really know squat about special education/Deaf ed.

I have my hunch here, but I'll hold off posting it.

Didn't you know? Cinnamon cures EVERYTHING! Deafness, diabetes, cancer, even autism! It especially helps if you take it with honey so it's easier to stick to the deafness/sugar/cancer cells/vaccine toxins!!!! [/sarcasm] (Some of the inspiration for this post was taken from Special Kids : A...

Really? You came on and made an account just to comment on how the deaf people are reading someone's lips? Even to me, a hearing person who stinks at lipreading, I do not see that on her lips.

As a hearing person, I may never look at Harry Potter the same way again. I'll be all analyze-y and stuff. It was a lot of interesting stuff I had never really thought about! (I dislike that they decided to use COWA rather than the official term of "Squib" for wizard-born children w/o magical...

Here's a transcript that goes with it: HP1

Well... sometimes people are ignorant and annoying but don't realize it, or they adamantly deny their ignorance and/or annoying-ness (?) because they *can't* be wrong/ableist/audist. And then there are hearing people that read these stories and think that the deaf people who wrote them think...

We use Signing Naturally in my class, but you really would need an instructor to get the full benefit of the curriculum. Lifeprint is one of the best online resources I've seen online personally.

I posted a story in here once. But only because I was REALLY angry. And other than that I really only read it. And I hate it when people come in and post something like "aww ur complaining about nothing suck it up" >:-(

That's why I put "as a hearing person." Having experienced autism and its group, I personally found similarities between that experience and what I have heard/seen but not truly experienced about Deaf culture/deafness. I mentioned it because I felt I needed to say it. I've been told by hearing...

As a person on the spectrum, I am not totally unable to understand facial expressions/emotions (that said, I do encounter issues), but I often have trouble expressing them, ASL facial expressions included. I (as a hearing person) do see parallels between Deaf culture and autistic "culture"...

Harlan Lane mentioned the 60% figure in Journey into the Deaf-World, I think.

No. My HS ASL teacher went by "Love"/"Dr. Love" (he had a PhD, I think). But his name sign was not "love"; it was "L with thumb tapping center of chest." My experience has also been the same with locations that are also words. I was born in Orange, Texas, but without knowing if they have a sign...

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Even if you could and would test out of the beginner, take it anyway. It's a free credit! (My university would make me jump through hoops to test out of ASL 1 (it's not classified the way the other languages are), so I just took it to get the easy credit and make sure I hadn't missed anything.

The ones 'round these parts say something like "People with hearing and speech disabilities: Please drive up and place your order at the first window" in blue writing on a white sticker (or vice-versa). What's weird is my mom appears to understand what people are saying at those speakers...

I felt the need to mention this. I'm pretty sure the bi-bi state school here works (or worked, I'm not sure if the recent outreach legislation will change that) with an oral school in the area for speech services. At the very least, even though I'm spending my entire next year of college...

Can anybody still help me with this one? I got the others figured out (I was able to ask him, since the deadline is apparently midnight tonight (that's two hours)), but I didn't have time to ask him this one, too, and my other questions about the story were more pressing. I'm sure I'll figure...

I'd actually probably benefit from getting one of these. I'm hearing, but even with 2 cell phones that vibrate and play loud alarms under my pillow and my regular alarm clock next to my head, I STILL don't wake up!