A hearing teacher told me that...

This hearing teacher just made an analysis on how her perception had changed.

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[AelafT]

Actually, a lot of deaf people do not WRITE proper english, simply because they cannot hear it and do not hear the way everyone else says these things. And most deaf can read well, I should know I have lived with 2 deaf siblings my whole life.

[avbria]

@AelafT Research studies show that hearing is not necessarily a factor to be fluent in writing. It makes a big difference for Deaf babies to acquire language early that is accessible to them which is mostly ASL and that they receive proper bilingual instruction.

[MrBoffom]

you should post a video with your kids :) that would be cool.

[avbria]

@MrBoffom There are other videos with my kids in it smiles

[angelstar819]

I totally disagree with you. Have you not heard that the average Deaf adult (whose first language is ASL) reads at a 4th grade level?! That's sad. And I have seen plenty of Deaf people who write poorly since the ASL structure is very different from the English structure.

[avbria]

You can't disagree based on what a hearing teacher saw. It is all about having bilingual approach in Deaf education if you know how to make a right map to decode Deaf children whose first language is ASL. My Deaf children are living proof of it as they both skipped a grade and excel in academic, thank you. And are you a certified teacher of the Deaf?

[zocja]

See how we feel about hearing people's videos on youtube. There is no subtitle or anything on those videos on youtube for us deaf people. And you feel disabled becuz you don't understand sign language! We don't understand a word from hearing videos on Youtube!!! Sorry if I offended anyone.

[pandorlla]

Great video! education makes all the difference, even hearing people end up with low english skill if not given a good education. How young were you when you learned ASL?

[shiwadaay07]

@angelstar819 Do you know why??? We deaf people are often ignored by hearing people in general in daily life, assuming that we have no language at all for being deaf. If the ASL is our first or native language, then English is not our native language either. In addition, most deaf institutional schools do not provide enough education to children and teenagers. Also, not enough communication in families or a society how we are often left out by the hearing people. It's not our fault.

[shiwadaay07]

@AelafT (cont...) No one can always succeed his native language skills alone without learning a foreign language. From a local to a local, no one has the excat same grammatical structure in one language that can lead to misunderstanding and being confused. So, there is no way of right or wrong how you write English that has nothing to do with hearing or deafness. Even, some hearing people don't pronounce spoken English correctly in the same area or local. Plus, lack of communication.

[shiwadaay07]

@AelafT That's because most deaf intitutional schools do not have good education based on which is why deaf people are (still) believed to have learning disabilities due to deafness or hearing loss. Children are parents' responsibilities to make sure that they have education what their children are taught at schools. Often, the parents leave their own deaf children out, assuming they have no language to learn through their ears to brains which is wrong myth. (cont...)

[shiwadaay07]

@bek81 True... That's why I use some foreign languages to support my English language skills. I like German and Icelandic better because they're very logical languages ever I have learned. Icelandic is the oldest Germanic that descended from Old Norse which changed a very little bit. Deaf people should study the foreign languages at schools. Ég held að íslenska sé best fyrir heyrnarlausana um að læra að skrifa vel. Það má vera satt að nokkur heyrnarlaus maður geti lært erlent tungumál.

[Baachoo143]

I can understand that perfectly well because if a person needs to aquire a second language { esl for the deaf} then they need to have a grasp of an first langauge. if a oral/cochlear implant/hofh is not aquire a strong foundation of a language {english in this instance} then reading and writing it will be hard/

[AliciaFD86]

@angelstar819 (cont...) lack of early accessible access to language and lack of effective teaching strategies do.

[AliciaFD86]

@angelstar819 that is a statistic from the early 90s that measured the average of deaf high schoolers. Keep in mind that would mean that those high schoolers attended school during the oral days or the early days of total communication (TC) where teachers often did not sign well and students were often diagnosed late and learned sign late and many students who have been transfer students from other oral programs.

ASL does not cause the lowered ability to read and write (cont...)