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We learned that there was such a thing as Deaf culture, but that was almost always where the discussion stopped. It was usually presented in a pretty patronizing sense, too; there would be discussions of Latino culture or African-American culture, and then Deaf culture would be mentioned in...

I would love it if I could find a publisher who would be willing to include the number of illustrations necessary for that, but it would be very difficult to talk them into anything more than illustrations of the title and the chapter headings. Maybe if I sold a lot of books first...

By "mix of spoken English and ASL" I meant that most of the secondary characters are hearing and speak English, but that through their contact with the Deaf character they've learned some signs, ranging from fingerspelling and a few signs for some characters to ASL fluency in his girlfriend's...

I like to set myself challenges :)

Hi all, I joined this forum because I'm currently working on my second novel, which includes a Deaf character and a number of hearing characters who have a wide range of fluency in ASL. I'll have a number of questions, I'm sure, but this is the biggest one so far and probably the most...

To be fair, I imagine deafness comes up a little more often :giggle: There's no real cultural analogue to it, either; we don't have a "chocolate allergy culture" running parallel to mainstream culinary culture, other than maybe in our immediate families, in part because there are so few of us...

This is a huge reason I moved out to the country. In an apartment you often hear all of your neighbors' conversations. I guess a good analogy would be to imagine that the people around you were running up to you without warning and signing right in your face. When I have to leave the woods I...

One of the advantages of larger speakers is actually that you wouldn't have to crank them up as much. The amount of vibration they put out is physically larger at the same amplitude. One way to think of it is to imagine putting your hand against the paper speaker cones--you'll get more dynamic...

How large of a speaker are you using? Physically you can get larger (and more dynamic) vibrations out of larger speaker cones. Sometimes I'll set with my back against one of my speakers, which are about three feet tall, and I can feel the vibrations in my chest. It gives you a pretty good feel...

I'm here for several reasons. The first is simply to familiarize myself with Deaf culture; most Americans are familiar with at least a few aspects of our country's other minority cultures, so why should Deaf culture be left out of our "cultural stew?" Another is my own artistic interests. I'm...

I'm a hearing novelist living in rural Michigan. I've just started learning fingerspelling and some basic ASL online and am looking into taking classes if money allows. I'm doing research for a novel involving a deaf character living in a small town and am joining in the hopes of familiarizing...