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Is your boyfriend fluent in ASL, and use sign in his daily life? Then the answer for you is to learn ASL. Your daughter is young enough it'd be great for her to become fluent so she can communicate with her father. You can't have a relationship unless you learn his language.

I'm the same way! I'm profoundly Deaf without my hearing aids. With them.... who knows, I'm definitely not hearing. I can get around with talking in public, I can only hear people with my HAs and if I'm right in front of them, looking right at them and there's no background noise. A lot of...

Well SEE1 and SEE2 are Seeing Essential English and Signing Exact English, both are sign systems based off English. I grew up using signed English which is ASL signs in English word order. I was lucky I was exposed to spoken English as an infant before I completely lost my hearing at age 5 so I...

How do you mean "nontraditional" name signs?

I don't know who the OP is talking about still, obviously I'd have to see what he is doing and saying and what if any legitimate sway he may have before I would actually want to do something (if anything at all). I was just kind of brainstorming possibilities for the OP if they personally...

Wow... i don't even know what to say. I'm half Native Hawai'ian and there's this awful super white red haired rich guy who grew up in California that has made his living claiming to be the expert on true kanaka maoli culture and politics, if kanakas disagree with him we're traitors to our...

Wow that's amazing!! I'm the same way i suppose i speak really well but I guess i have that "deaf accent". It is exhausting though i love going home and taking off my hearing aids and just unwinding. It helps i wasn't born profoundly Deaf only with mild-moderare hearing loss that progressed...

Right but programs like Child Find (early intervention in CO for birth through age 3) are changing that. There are home aids that go in and teach families to sign. They do ASL storytime for infants and toddlers, things like that. There's a lot of effort in getting hearing parents and family...

Bi-bi isn't just used in Deaf ed, it's proved very successful in all bilingual education, including hearing. Whether the child uses spoken Spanish or ASL, promoting fluency in a child's L1 from an early age (before age 7) then teaching English as a second language (L2) while increasing fluency...

Ah I'm so sorry for misunderstanding! I guess I've just experienced people who don't think as HoH as true Deaf, like I chose to be mainstreamed, learn speech, use HAs, etc. I can't imagine what going through the oralism era was like. Like I said I did speech therapy but probably in a very...

I didn't know there were name sign systems. Just that name signs have to be given to you by the Deaf community, hearing people can't make their own up.

Very good points. The only thing I'd say is to be careful clumping HoH individuals who want to become more involved with their own Deaf identity as the same kind of newcomers/outsiders as hearing people just learning ASL and trying to learn about and in some cases be involved in the Deaf...

Thank you @ecp that's really big of you to apologize, it's pretty rare especially online. I think the miscommunication came because I thought your point was someone with hearing aids (like myself) calling themselves Deaf in any capacity would be the same as someone who wears classes...

I don't know the OP or have previous knowledge of his situation but from the original post I'm guessing it's an individual who attends/attended/or is otherwise associated with another SFD that is smaller, has a lot of it's best students or students who should attend based on where they're from...

If you were touring CSDB I'd definitely recommend RMDS. Waaaaaayyyyyyy better.

I was aware of the controversy but not that it was still popular. I mean haven't all recent studies shown ASL based ed is far superior than an ed based on SEE and other made up systems? I forgot to add in my original post I also used to be the special needs liaison for the Head Start preschool...

I learned with SEE in school especially in elementary school in reading class (mixed with speech therapy, FM systems, cued speech- or whatever youd call signed supported speech) by HS i used more PSE/SE especially with my Deaf/HoH friends (i don't have many most are from summer camp) I'm in my...

I totalloy get the best way for the child bit, I know that's the heart of TC which is still in use in many schools from what I understand, and was the "new" method when I was in school after the dark era of oralism. I guess I should clarify, from what I've been told/read/researched/understand...

OMG, I'm shocked that schools still use SEE. Are there any other schools your daughter can go to? I'm almost 30 and I grew up with both forms of SEE as well as signed English in school. I still have problems to this day because I had to learn using SEE. I'm having a difficult time becoming...

My left ear is in the 80-100 range (starts with 85-90ish then goes up to 80 fairly quick and then heads down with each pitch increase until it's at 100 at the very end) my right ear is in the 65-90 range, same thing as far as being the worst at the highest pitch, better at lower pitches with the...