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Hmm, well, I have grown up seeing interpreters at big events and things like that, and I have always been interested. In elementary and middle school I took classes through school and at the YMCA when they were offered, but it was usually only for a few months, and then another class wouldn't...

I am at CSUN and totally loving it. The ASL/Deaf Studies program is SOOO much better here than at the community college I went to before. Hanabathief, you here at CSUN? PM me if you are. I can say more a little later on what I think and all that, once I've really gotten into classes, but so...

RoyalGuard, I know you are getting tons of information, and I applaud you for reaching out and looking into all the different options available. Your daughter is so luckily to have someone who cares. When you get out and talk to most deaf people, through writing or speech, you will see...

This is something I wrote for English class. We had to write a personal statement, like we would for college application essays. I have never shared here before, but I decided to now, so I'll see what you guys think. Imagine entering a classroom where no one says anything the entire class. A...

I've been around many deaf people, mostly adults, and I've seen them having a lot of trouble controlling the pitch and loudness of their voices. I think your daughter will outgrow the screaming in time (I've seen kids like that, but rarely over 6 years old). As I read your post, I was...

From what I have heard from everyone involved in the deaf community, mental health professionals are DESPERATELY needed. Even simply as a language barrier, it is difficult. There are very few MH people who know anything about ASL and deaf culture; and using an interpreter to talk about something...

I'm on vacation with extremely limited internet time, so I haven't posted in awhile, but it still totally disturbs me that the play must be by "hearing-impaired students for whom the cochlear implant operation isn't financially feasible." What is up with that? Does having a CI make one...

Here's the link to another place we talked about lipreading: lipread People in different countries and in different regions speak spoken language differently. With English, people move their lips differently, often because the sound they are trying to make is different (The Harbor...

I think she may have used texting because it was a quite way to ask her mom questions and give information without disturbing him. She probably, at 9, wasn't sure if he just needed quiet time and wasn't responding or was seriously in trouble. My mom went into diabetic convulsions from a low...

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With any language, you have to be thinking in it to speak like a native speaker. I have taken 5 years of high school Spanish, and every once in awhile, I can start thinking in Spanish, if I am being exposed to it constantly, (i.e., I'm watching a tv program all in Spanish, or listening to...

Many languages do not have a written form, especially African languages, that is not an issue. ASL, LIKE Vietnamese, uses time to set up its tense. Tenses are used in ASL if no tense is established "see-finish", and the time must be changed to talk about a different time period. If he is really...

I think one thing that these people who say you should "be praying for a miracle of healing" is that, especially if one is born deaf, if that person became hearing at a late age, he/she would have to learn SOOO much! There are nuances so MANY nuances in spoken language, plus all the...

Speechreading becomes a LOT harder with accents! I can lipread some, if my tv is muted or someone is talking to me from far away or whatever, but you ask me to lipread a British speaker and I'm SOOO lost. The same goes for southern speakers or Northeast speakers, although that's not as bad as...

Although I don't think you can get a BA in Interpreting, you can get one in Deaf Studies. Interpreting is one of the few fields left where a college education isn't a must, although at least in CA, but 2012, all interpreters must have a BA in something, just to show they have some knowledge in...

I don't know how deaf people feel about other deaf speaking, but at least with the peopl I've been around, hoh/deaf has been determined by hearing ability, not oral. As for hearing people, they think of everyone as hearing or stone deaf. When they find someone in between, they will always think...

If you want an ASL tutor that's great, you'll probably find one in the d.c. area. BUT, many community colleges offer ASL classes, and you may be able to take one at a school nearby. Also, keep going to deaf events, that will help you a lot! Good luck!

Mara, I will assume you've already done this, but I would read books by CODA's.A Loss for Words by Lou Ann Walker, and if you are looking for a more scientific view on CODA's, Mother Father Deaf. There is also an organization that created the name CODA, that is an org. for ppl who are...

I think she means they actually verbally say it, "death" instead of "deaf," it is a very common hearie mistake. a lot of ppl seem to have trouble with the f's and th's. Whatever. As for the deaf/hoh "approach random person", I notice people staring when I'm signing, but don't usually have...

Hearing people use many different 'tones of voice," and are very often sarcastic, especially Americans. Although their facial expression may say they are happy, sad, etc. they may actually be feeling something completely different.