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From: Jessica.Ostrow@f337.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jessica Ostrow)
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Subject: Re: What about ....
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Date: 30 May 91 04:05:41 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

AS> I can't see trying to separate folks who use ASL and those
AS> who are oral - that's the whole problem right there - we
AS> need
AS> to work together as a team and respect others regardless
AS> of whether they speak or sign.

Ann...you hit the nail on the head there...I kind of wondered, among the ASL
crowd, many of them seem to imply that there is a stigma of a sort if you
are deaf and can speak, or were brought up oral or whatever...why is this?

I'm wondering because I was raised oral, and not encouraged to sign/learn
sign (something I think is probably typical with hearing parents, and also
because educators had some kind of weird idea that if a child learns sign,
they won't "want" to learn to speak, and scare hearing parents into thinking
that sign is bad...)... About 2 years ago, I started learning sign, and find
that it's opening up new worlds to me; I can now watch and understand
interpreters and not have to worry about being able to lipread the person.

                cheers, Jessica

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