DST 795 One Language at a time

My homework for DST 795...

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Oralism
• audism
• ASL
• Deaf
• Deafhood
• Gallaudet
• Gallaudet University
• Gally
• American Sign Language.

[haydeque]

Nice work. This is a tactful, positive message. Between the signs, I think there is much not yet expressed (here anyway).

[DeafJennyWitty]

@haydeque Like? Care to elaborate?

[DeafJennyWitty]

I don't know why your comment disappeared.. you said: @DeafJennyWitty Like, you could have expressed so much more about the SIM-COM con, oralist hegemony, institutional fractures, dismissal and disrespect, or witty retorts. Enough?

My answer: It was to be 'academic ASL in I think it was 7 minutes. I wanted something that Simcommers or Non signers could feel not threaten by and perhaps change their ways. Get more with sweetness sometimes.

[grandma2jam]

Jenny, I was told when my deaf son was little that using SEE would teach him English. How wrong the educators of the day were! This did NOT happen. So by learning SEE (speaking of myself), I was crippled by that. My receptive skills with ASL are so poor because of learning SEE first. Usually, I can sign ASL somewhat better than receive it.

SIMCOM is used because of CIs.

[DeafJennyWitty]

@grandma2jam - SEE was used because most Hearing teachers (pre-CI times) were NOT fluent in ASL and thus it was easier to use SEE signs than ASL. Plus the fact that hearing teachers of the Deaf were not fluent in ASL, they couldn't teach Deaf children how to fluently read and write in English. SO they blamed ASL as being deficit language preventing Deaf from being able to read/write in English. The problem was with the hearing teachers' lack of fluency in ASL. Thank you for your comments

[qaz668]

I so agree. Not teaching in pure ASL cheats both the Deaf and the hearing students on campus. So much information is lost in translation by not choosing to teach in the one language accessible to everyone on campus. When you can hear what the hearing people are saying when they sign in SimCom and you also know ASL, you see how much information they drop completely in the visual channel. And what does come out is so garbled and weak... it is sad. Just use ASL!

[DeafJennyWitty]

@qaz668 Exactly!! THank you for your comments.. It's crazy when people (especially Deaf people) say SIM COm works better than pure ASL! - NOT!

[haydeque]

@DeafJennyWitty (I thought my comment had disappeared also, so I replied again. See below). I understand. The sweetness shows through. Well done! AND, there is so much more between the lines!