Frisky Feline
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Through Your Child's Eyes: American Sign Language [Subtitled
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This is why it is important to have a deaf or hard of hearing infant or toddler to start learning sign language, even in ASL.
When I was growing up from infant to almost 9 years old with no sign language unless it was homemade signs that I tried to communicated with my parents and my siblings , even "friends". I don't know my friends' names and their personal beings.
My parents did not know anything about me being struggled trying to understand in the hearing world. They never took up ASL or sign language like Ameslan.
Before going to the hearing mainstream school, I was very happy to be deaf because that is who I am. It is me. No one can not change me and try to make me to become like the hearing person. I was not happy when I went into oral-only method elementary school, I was with other deaf students in my home classroom and we had to learned to talk and then had to learned to lipread and speak. That was difficult and lipreading is horrible trying to make out what they say in the classroom. I was not happy in that school. Then when I graduated from elementary to high school. It was still the same only more worse than elementary school. I had tried to get the principal to change from oral-only method to ASL, but he refused to listen to me and maybe to other deaf students. He thought that sign language was bad and believed that we should speak and lipread. He does not know how hard we had to go through. He does not know what deafness is like.
No hearing person will never know what deafness is like. If the hearing person can go through with covering up their ears with ear muffs or like swimming ear plugs to keep out the sounds. The hearing person might be able to try to lipread or try to understand without sounds.
That is the reason why I was desperately need ASL when my parents and the schools forced me to lipread and to talk and say "NO" when I asked them please take me to the Deaf school where there are Deaf signers. That is the whole big problem of not paying attention to the d/Deaf and HOH children especially babies. You just can not abandon the babies without ASL.
In this video, you can see how happy the Deaf and Hard of Hearing children get to communicate in signs so that they can understand what is going on. No matter how much hearing loss the children have, they need ASL to communicate much clearer than trying to figure out in the hearing world.
When I was growing up from infant to almost 9 years old with no sign language unless it was homemade signs that I tried to communicated with my parents and my siblings , even "friends". I don't know my friends' names and their personal beings.
My parents did not know anything about me being struggled trying to understand in the hearing world. They never took up ASL or sign language like Ameslan.
Before going to the hearing mainstream school, I was very happy to be deaf because that is who I am. It is me. No one can not change me and try to make me to become like the hearing person. I was not happy when I went into oral-only method elementary school, I was with other deaf students in my home classroom and we had to learned to talk and then had to learned to lipread and speak. That was difficult and lipreading is horrible trying to make out what they say in the classroom. I was not happy in that school. Then when I graduated from elementary to high school. It was still the same only more worse than elementary school. I had tried to get the principal to change from oral-only method to ASL, but he refused to listen to me and maybe to other deaf students. He thought that sign language was bad and believed that we should speak and lipread. He does not know how hard we had to go through. He does not know what deafness is like.
No hearing person will never know what deafness is like. If the hearing person can go through with covering up their ears with ear muffs or like swimming ear plugs to keep out the sounds. The hearing person might be able to try to lipread or try to understand without sounds.
That is the reason why I was desperately need ASL when my parents and the schools forced me to lipread and to talk and say "NO" when I asked them please take me to the Deaf school where there are Deaf signers. That is the whole big problem of not paying attention to the d/Deaf and HOH children especially babies. You just can not abandon the babies without ASL.
In this video, you can see how happy the Deaf and Hard of Hearing children get to communicate in signs so that they can understand what is going on. No matter how much hearing loss the children have, they need ASL to communicate much clearer than trying to figure out in the hearing world.
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I didnt see it almost a year later. I remember someone sent me the link but never around to it. So in the video, i saw some of familar faces that i attended to college with them. I just learned that I grew up with my childhood friends and they are moving there because of this school where they want to send their kids over there.