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Is it Right for a non-deaf professional to criticize the way a native deaf ASL user signs?
You might not realize it, but for more than a century, many non-deaf professionals have had a goal to banish or at least control the use of ASL.
Which to hire, a non-deaf or deaf professional?
From 1880 until about 1980, it was rare for a qualified deaf professional to get a professional job serving deaf people.
Is American Sign Language (ASL) a legitimate language?
Yes, it is as legitimate as any written and spoken language.
Achieving grade-level academic skills
Typically, educators and parents expect hearing students to achieve grade level academic knowledge and skills.
No man is an island
Most non-deaf professionals do not believe that there is a deaf world that is distinct from the hearing world.
Deaf and non-deaf professionals: whose culture is it?
What happens when there are a much larger number of professionals from the majority cultural/language group than from the minority group serving minority group members?
Rely on litigation and not the kindness of strangers
Did you read about the university “Women’s Studies” Department that does not use any textbooks written by women and that has no women involved in running the program or teaching the courses?
Since 1880, They Took the Authority, Opportunity, & Advantage Away From Us, the Deaf People.
In each of my three previous articles, I explained the importance of one of the three terms, “authority, opportunity, and advantage.”
By whose opportunity
Dictionaries define the term “opportunity” as “a chance, especially one that offers some kind of advantage and/or a combination of favorable circumstances or situations.” I said the same thing in my previous article about, “authority.”
By whose authority
Dictionaries define the term, authority, as: power, right, influence, clout and importantly, who should “say-so” and have the “last word”?
Countless career opportunities are available for deaf students, adults
I believe that only a very small percent of deaf people currently possess doctorate degrees.
Doctors to parents: ‘I’m sorry; your baby is deaf’
A doctor usually makes the first comments to parents about the condition of their newborn baby’s condition.
Part 2: Blind, deaf and normal babies are all different
Baby A represents a normal baby, while Baby B depicts a blind baby. Baby C is a deaf baby.
Comparing babies: normal, blind and deaf are all different
I think the next two articles, part one and two, will help you understand better the way deaf people that are born deaf experience the “beginning of the life.”
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