Happy Deaf History Month

[chicago]

March 15 - April 15 is Deaf History Month!

My grandma and great uncle were born hard of hearing / deaf and sent off to state institutions at a young age. My grandma will say she learned a lot of important skills there, but missed out on having a loving family due to the ignorance around hearing impairment at the time.

Luckily, we've come a long way since then as far as awareness and information goes.

Props to all the hearing impaired members here 🙂

For others - anyone can learn to sign! Just like spoken languages, sign languages differ sometimes from country to country, but here is a great site for ASL :

http://www.signlanguage101.com/

This was also helpful to keep in mind when interacting with those that lip-read

 

[dr_random]

Also try Bill Vicars on YouTube.
My ex-wife and I were teaching ourselves asl, since she was a high school teacher and thought it might come in handy some day, and these videos were a great resource.
It’s also just fun to sign.


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[chicago]

Also try Bill Vicars on YouTube.
My ex-wife and I were teaching ourselves asl, since she was a high school teacher and thought it might come in handy some day, and these videos were a great resource.
It’s also just fun to sign.


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I agree! Thank you for that info and link!!

 

[BlasterMaster]

Yup, we have much better technology and ways to help people suffering from hearing impairment today than 50 to 60+ years ago.

Ya for medical advancement through science! 😀

 

[Soda Bobinski]

Ya for medical advancement through science! 😀

Hear , hear!