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Title says it all can someone stop this?

Yeah I beat out a lot of hearing kids to go to Brown and I use sign language. Oh wait I can talk so I'm sure the oralists would poach me as "their" success. But no I was never taught to hear (I have severe/profound hearing loss I can do ANYTHING I WANT BUT HEAR) but yet I was taught to think...

You are saying hearing children are the standard DHH kids need to reach. You are saying to reach this superior standard DHH kids need to learn to listen and talk and think. What do hearing kids have DHH don't? Spoken language. If its superior that means ASL and sign language are inferior. When...

Same!! Was it Aspen Camp??

This is great this is what most of us believe, but to make sure DHH kids have all the skills necessary early language exposure is key and for DHH kids this is sign language. If they choose cued speech, speaking whatever later fine. But at least they have natural fluency in their L1. Its easier...

Thank you everyone for your kind words and support including @Teacherofthedeaf tea I've been struggling to be taken seriousky by our local police from my most recent assault that was incredibly violent. Its a lot of why I went back to school to get my counseling degree and why I want to go to...

You seen to know a lot about Melissa that she doesn't say here She's said shes not fluent in signed English If shes fluent in ASL and English shes fluent in SE. i highly doubt someone who doesn't believe in ASL use im Deaf ed, who is hearing and who doesn't use ASL in her current interactions...

Oh and @Teacherofthedeaf I was raped my senior year of high school by a hearing student from my hearing high school I was mainstreamed at. So I guess that makes mainstreaming awful and evil too eh?

Tisk tisk @Teacherofthedeaf a REAL PhD student would know a handful of antidotal stories do not equal anything close to proof. And as much as it pains me to even entertain your continued self serving concoctions of stories at all, I will say if these families couldn't communicate AT ALL with...

So jealous! I'm waiting to have my DVR case moved to a new county and it's been a year since I started the process to get the new HAs and earmolds I desperately need. Stupid state of CO Medicaid not paying a penny for HAs/CIs. I'm stoked for you guys though!

Maybe in your state. In Colorado there's no laws about DHH people being any different than hearing people driving.

I drive without my HAs all the time. I have to make sure to put them in my purse at night sometimes ha ha or else I get to work and only then realize I forgot them (profound HL for the win with HAs lol) I can't talk on the phone even with them I have Sprint relay on my cell, it's text relay and...

I realize I'm a little late to the party but... Please don't listen to anything this person has to say. We believe she's inflating her credentials at best, really condescending to DHH kids at the worst. She's the one who believe DHH kids need to be taught to listen and hear to be as successful...

Was this person in one of our threads here? Hahahahaha @deafdyke ;-)

You have quite the cajones calling anyone here disrespectful after some of the things you've said (and we've quoted... and yet you've still denied...) I believe it's the pot calling the kettle black. But you'll just deny it because of course as a hearing person you have superior language skills...

Eh I don't think anyone's "scared" of the condition. Honestly I felt that soooooo much more when I've been in a wheelchair. Everywhere I go people would treat me like glass, didn't think I could do things. With my hearing loss... I guess people who don't know me will treat me like I'm dumb (got...

Preach girl! I used sign language (not ASL but I started in the early 90s any sign then in mainstreamed public schools was big) and went to an Ivy on scholarship. But yeah tell me about all those superior hearing peers of mine :-)

Funny that she uses present tense to describe all these lofty accomplishments that often seem to first arise to supercede the CV of an individual she disagrees with. Either my original point remains or I guess being hearing doesn't make your basic language skills superior. Your choice.

Public places? I don't really have any problems. In really loud areas my HAs are worthless, and not a lot of people sign, but that's pretty marginal. I can write things down to communicate with people if I have to. I honestly had a much much harder time getting around places when I was in a...

Yeah. This topic came up in my ASL class (I grew up with signed English, which sucks but anyway) The students were amazed that it wasn't on my license/I could drive by myself whenever I wanted. Then when the topic of cops treating DHH people badly (anything from calling me and my Deaf friends...