A while ago, the mother of a cute and adorable Deaf girl, Miss Kat, was told by an anonymous commenter that Miss Kat is not a member of Deaf Community because she wears a cochlear implant. Never mind that the child is Deaf and uses ASL. Naturally the mother felt hurt by the hostile rejection of her Deaf child. [...]
Commentary: This is a post created last Feb when people accused the ASL vloggers of not being accessible to non-ASL users. I am reposting this as I feel some hearing and oral deaf people don’t fully understand the issues. Some of the ASL users have never achieved full linguistic competency in written English because they [...]
When I was little, I was confused with my own identity as my parents took me to St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf for oralism program and I never understood why American Sign Language is such a forbidden language. I remember the kindergarten very well and I stayed there for about two years after I [...]
“I had no language the first six years of my life. I remember that my mom had to drag me out of the living room to begin practicing my hearing skills with the radio in kitchen, and she trained me to speak everyday. Whenever I tried to use my hands, my mom put them down. [...]
Reviewing what I covered last year, I was staggered by the sheer volume of the blogs produced, especially in the first half of the year. I eventually gave up adding topics after a while, so this list will suffice for now. Overall, this should give you a better idea what topics were explored. Covering the trial [...]
During the Gallaudet protests, the emphasis among the protesters was Deaf Unity. All together, deaf people of all types, deaf of deaf, deaf of hearing, mainstreamed, oral, hard of hearing, deaf people using cochlear implants, and cued speech users united along with their hearing peers to stand up against management by intimidation and flawed administration. [...]
This comes from a reader named “Who cares?”, responding to my husband’s post yesterday. In case you may be wondering why I’ve been silent lately, I’m not feeling well.
Anyway…”Who cares?” illustrates the current conflict we are faced with. We want to educate the hearing parents on the value of a Bi-Bi method. But are we using [...]
Why does it make more sense for hearing people to give advice on how to rear and educate deaf children rather than for deaf people to offer such advice? One would think it best to ask those with personal experience. What makes hearing people more qualified than deaf people? Who told the parents to disregard [...]
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