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- From: Charles.Cafarelli@f104.n2240.z1.fidonet.org (Charles Cafarelli)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: YM
- Message-ID: <24450@handicap.news>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 18:09:31 GMT
- Sender: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com
- Reply-To: Charles.Cafarelli@f104.n2240.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/104 - FoxFire, Flint MI
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- X-Fidonet: Silent Talk Conference
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- Index Number: 24450
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- [This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
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- AS> I DONT MIX WITH PLAIN SIGNING DEAF. MANY PEOPLE VISIT ME THAT KNOW
- AS> FINGER-SPELLING THOUGH. SO I DO HAVE A CHANCE TO USE THAT.
-
- How do you do that? I have a friend that has taken 5 years of ASL she is
- going to be an interperter, she meet someone that was blind and deaf at one
- of her off-shot classes, she said she just let the person hold her hand and
- signed slowly, along with fingerspelling in the persons palm.
-
- I think the hardest thing in my first ASL class was trying to watch the
- teachers hands. I got my first hearing aid at the age of 21, was told I'de
- be total deaf by 30, going on 53 now and still have a little hearing left
- with the Aid I use. Thing is I have been watching peoples lips for so many
- years it was hard to watch the teacher as she mouthed what she was signing,
- so I was doing more lip reading, when I should have been watching her
- hands. Plus which trying to learn proper English in one class, then going
- to ASL and have them try to make me un-learn it. :) The :) is a smile I
- don't think I've seen anyone on here use it so I figured I'de better
- explain.
-
- Well, back to school Sept 8th and my second ASL class, along with English
- 102, Basic Electronics, and another math class.
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- Hope to type with you more.
-
- Chuck
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