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Very interesting to see how you define what constitutes the deaf community, though no one should be surprised at the social circumstances leading to the exclusivity through the process of requirements and qualification for membership. I personally consider any oral deaf person to be part of the...

Are her classmates bilingual in Dutch and Norwegian too? There tends to be a noticeable language delay in bilingual children compared to monolingual children before they reach the age of six. But the bilingual children usually catches up with their monolingual peers. Given your daughter's...

I'm very sensitive to bright sunlight. And light in general too. I can't fall asleep if I can see the light peeking through a closed door, even with my eyes shut. I can't fall asleep if there's a night light in the room. My eyes are naturally bright blue.

Contradictory feelings are simmering inside my heart. I resent all romanticized and glamorized notions about deafness in related to ASL and the U.S. Deaf culture. For all the silver spoons we have here, we still run into the glass ceiling in many professional situations. I'll never let go of the...

Why has no one answered the question yet? It's an oblate spheriod. Earth isn't a perfect sphere. Measurements, when done accurately, are much more convincing than astronomical snapshots. :)

Deborah, it sounds like a campus visit is in order. You can get a much more intimate feeling of MSSD if you and your daughter could see everything with your own eyes and play the 20 questions with everyone. :)

It was VERY interesting to read about raising deaf children from the perspective of hearing parents. I wish you the best of luck, Lillys dad and Deborah.

Reiterating some of the comments from the link... We do live in a capitalist society that enables us to make personal choices for our lives. All too often, we neglect to consider the long-term consequences and ethics our choices will impact on not just ourselves but society and future...

I can't use the older change-X sign because none of my friends, at least the ones from the West Coast, use it. When somebody does use it, I find it disconcerting. Generally, I use the new sign for TRANSGENDER although I "re-open" my dominant hand after I close it. Once I showed it to my friend...

Oh no, not another linguistics inquiry. This isn't exclusively targeted at native ASL signers and interpreters, but at everyone who signs! ASL, like any language, signed or spoken, is teeming with compounds. Some of them are obvious, as in recognizable that they were produced by a combination...

I don't know whether to borrow your cat or your sociolinguistics book. :)

You're right. Native Spanish speakers cannot get credit for taking Spanish 1. However, they can get credit for taking Spanish for native speakers if they do not know how to read and write it fluently. My alma mater offered Chinese writing and reading classes for students who already spoke...

The cuteness factor is overwhelming, Interpretrator. I hope you'll post more pictures of your cats, or we'll feel like you're teasing us with a carrot. :)

I love how you retort back when an ignorant person hurls an insensitive assumption about your plans for bearing more children. My entire family is hearing. I'm the only congenitally deaf person but I have a good chance of producing deaf children. That doesn't bother me in the slightest bit...

I'm obsessed with dark chocolate, especially when they come in uncommon flavors: cherry, lavender, orange, lime, mint, rosemary. And if they have a shot of liquer... Color me a chocolate connoisseur in training.