I just learned something new from Gally that I havent heard when I enrolled their university. Gally did a good job to keep this case quiet. It is now cold case, I am sure.
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Deaf-mute woman goes missing from Gallaudet University
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argh Mute???
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It does sound sort of bad....but "mute" is "non speaking", in this case, she cannot speak....cannot talk.
What other word should the police use in order to "identify" her?...I hate to be labeled also....but I'd rather "mute" than "dumb"...And people do "assume" if you cannot speak, then ur dumb....Which is all wrong....
I think mute is wrong too but some deaf actually refer themselves as that.
I'm sure he know how to use his voicebox so he is not mute. Most deaf can speak but they just don't hear themselves depending on how well they can hear with their HA/CI <---yes CI because I still don't know the difference between certain sounds when I hear myself speak and hear other people speak.
if this person use ASL to communicate , That's what the reporter should wrote instead of calling him mute. Unless this person was never taught any language skills (which does happen. My aunt know a deaf adult who have been severely neglected by his parents. He did not know how to speak or sign at all. She tried to teach him a few sign language but he grew up without any language so it is hard for him. He is homeless, btw)
I'm sure he know how to use his voicebox so he is not mute. Most deaf can speak but they just don't hear themselves depending on how well they can hear with their HA/CI <---yes CI because I still don't know the difference between certain sounds when I hear myself speak and hear other people speak.
if this person use ASL to communicate , That's what the reporter should wrote instead of calling him mute. Unless this person was never taught any language skills (which does happen. My aunt know a deaf adult who have been severely neglected by his parents. He did not know how to speak or sign at all. She tried to teach him a few sign language but he grew up without any language so it is hard for him. He is homeless, btw)
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Here is the full article from the Washington Examiner:
Deaf-mute woman goes missing from Gallaudet University
By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
June 23, 2010
The last time anybody saw Porschette Charslyn Evans, she was wheeling a yellow and blue backpack at Gallaudet University, the school in Washington for the deaf and hard of hearing.
That was six years ago, and friends and family cling to the hope that she is still alive, maybe living in a homeless shelter.
There are few details in Evans' case.
Evans could not hear or speak. She also had a medical condition that required extensive treatment and left scars on her body.
Evans was last seen around 4 p.m. on May 10, 2004, at the campus around the 800 block of Florida Avenue NE. At the time, Evans was 23 years old, 5-foot-5 and 115 pounds.
Evans had brown hair that she sometimes wore in braids. And she also went by the nickname Porcia.
She had a dark-colored oval birthmark on her outer right thigh, scars on her chest from when she had to use a breathing machine, a 3-inch surgical scar on her neck and a three-quarter-inch surgical scar on her left calf.
She wore metal orthodontic braces and may be missing some of her teeth.
When she walked off the campus, she was wearing a gold necklace with a Lady of Guadalupe pendant and a black Timex watch with a wide band on her left wrist. She also wore a gold Lee High School class ring set with a garnet, a heart-shaped ring on her left pinkie, small hoop earrings, and possibly N.Y. brand jeans, a T-shirt and gray Skechers sneakers.
Anyone with information about Evans can call the D.C. police department at 202-727-9099.
Personally the writer should have said that she uses ASL as her primary language. But otherwise the article was as politically correct as he could get.
Deaf-mute woman goes missing from Gallaudet University
By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
June 23, 2010
The last time anybody saw Porschette Charslyn Evans, she was wheeling a yellow and blue backpack at Gallaudet University, the school in Washington for the deaf and hard of hearing.
That was six years ago, and friends and family cling to the hope that she is still alive, maybe living in a homeless shelter.
There are few details in Evans' case.
Evans could not hear or speak. She also had a medical condition that required extensive treatment and left scars on her body.
Evans was last seen around 4 p.m. on May 10, 2004, at the campus around the 800 block of Florida Avenue NE. At the time, Evans was 23 years old, 5-foot-5 and 115 pounds.
Evans had brown hair that she sometimes wore in braids. And she also went by the nickname Porcia.
She had a dark-colored oval birthmark on her outer right thigh, scars on her chest from when she had to use a breathing machine, a 3-inch surgical scar on her neck and a three-quarter-inch surgical scar on her left calf.
She wore metal orthodontic braces and may be missing some of her teeth.
When she walked off the campus, she was wearing a gold necklace with a Lady of Guadalupe pendant and a black Timex watch with a wide band on her left wrist. She also wore a gold Lee High School class ring set with a garnet, a heart-shaped ring on her left pinkie, small hoop earrings, and possibly N.Y. brand jeans, a T-shirt and gray Skechers sneakers.
Anyone with information about Evans can call the D.C. police department at 202-727-9099.
Personally the writer should have said that she uses ASL as her primary language. But otherwise the article was as politically correct as he could get.