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From: Dennis.Mcclain-Furmanski.@f42.n275.z1.fidonet.org (Dennis Mcclain-Furmanski )
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Subject: Re: Mensa
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Date: 30 May 91 04:07:11 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I was pretty clear on what you were explaining viz.
test making and taking. I think that maybe the point that Tim takes (*among
others, but he's so fervent that it strikes me) that ASL needs to be considered
a native language in its own right. Perhaps then it could be understood in the
light we've been talking about.

It's always aggravated me that sign language is taught in colleges in the
speech pathology department. Pathology: the study of the nature of diseases.
Like it's sick to be deaf. At the very least, a native signer should be given
the choice to consider themselves a user of english as a second language.

It occurs to me, how would one create a test with directions for native
signers? Is the only way to do that with a signer giving the directions?

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