Recent content by cdaigle430

Its better to stay single, I am not single but I wish to be single now because she doesn't respect my culture - Deafness. Being single you can be very happy :)

What I do for 22 years-Information Technology. I am a Windows Engineer.

Four years ago I asked members why continue to embrace a dying language like ASL? Most laughed and scoffed at me. My question is how do you feel about ASL going away now and technology offering much better ways to communicate than having to learn a complex language skill? More importantly my...

No I am not being uncivil or a troll and the whole reason I brought this up is because of the difficulty level learning ASL not just from a deaf or HOH persons point of view but for those who wish to communicate to us. It takes a lot of time and effort to learn ASL-it really does. I know...

In my mind its quite simple-if you cant let go of the past how can you make it in the future? As long as ASL is worshipped and hailed as the only way or the way to communicate in our community, how can you devlop new things? Seems like the only ones who want to make our lives better are the...

Far better than not communicating at all? I will agree there but, they can do even better when you open communication up to the rest of the world rather than the 2 million or so of the 360 million Americans for example. I am certainly not putting ASL down because it is a tool used to...

Morse code is considered a language to HAMers as ASL is considered a language to the deaf-even have HAMers that speek dit dit dot dot. Medical and Technology will make it absolete one day-I was hoping it would be in my lifetime. For example, they are already growing the hairs inside the middle...

It is in development, my main point is, as a community-if we embrace and contribute to new technology medical break throughs we may be able to expedite its development and at least see it happen in our lifetime. It can only be ASL if everyone is tought a common language in schools like ASL...

I know I will ruffle some feathers with this post and please understand it is not my intention. Why does the deaf community hold ASL so dear and not embrace the future? To me ASL is useless in my surrounding world so I embrace technology as a whole. I have even been a contributor of...

Like Morse Code to a HAM Radio Operator, soon, ASL will be obsolete thanks to technology.

I pretty much gave up on this, it is Global TV thats the problem. They claim CC works but I tried multiple TV brands and CC works on all of them from Time Warner, Apple Tv and Other Roku Apps. My conclusion is Slings Global TV for Deaf and HOH is garbage. At least my Brazilian Fiance can...

Was in the National Guard for 10 years while wearing HA (They made me wear them :)) Retired after 22 years, I am working at my current job as Level 1 support for 12,000 Windows servers globally, been at this company for 17 years, 15 years bilateral HAs. Sure its a bit more stressfull for me...

Yeah, I am not learning ASL because no one in my circle of the world knows it nor will they learn it for my benefit. I would have to start from scratch with new people but at my age?

I did not know the difference so I did some research and found this which explins things very well between HOH and Deaf. I am HOH I guess because I can hear with HA but deaf without. http://www.washington.edu/doit/deaf-or-hard-hearing

I am not sure what you meant be deleted due to rereading. Does it mean you reread my post and decided not to comment or I posted something that was already addressed on the forum?