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I disagree. I've met my share of people who are good signers but terrible interpreters. Socializing might give you a leg up on the language, but it doesn't teach you anything about how to process information and effectively interpret from one language to another, nor does it teach you how to...

I don't think they cause him any discomfort because he wears them without a problem most days. There are just some days he doesn't like all the noise, and I really can't blame him. I sometimes wish I could turn the volume down on my ears, too.

There's a back-and-forth in my house with my son and his hearing aids. We understand that it's important for him to have access to sound and, if possible, develop speech skills simply to make it easier for him to interact with sign language impaired hearing folks, and most days he's fine with...

It's still an excellent resource for interpreters. However, I recommend that your girlfriend consider enrolling in a college level interpreter training program because there's a lot more to it than just being "pretty decent" at sign language.

There's been many a time when I wished my ears had a volume control.

This is rather naive. We're talking about cultures, not personal preferences. To say, "I love going to the beach," is not in the same sphere of thought as, "I love being white," or "I love being hearing." There is a lot of subtext behind the latter two phrases that you would not typically...

I suppose you could take it up with your department head, but that could have its own problems -- for instance if the instructor presents herself as an expert in ASL and the department head doesn't know any better, it might be perceived as an attack on a qualified staff member. Dunno what to...

Better question: How is it not? Though I suppose I can take some comfort in the fact that your bigotry is apparently due to ignorance and not malicious intent. To make your version more accurately reflect what you actually said regarding deafness: "I don't hate being black. I cannot hate it...

The audist has spoken. :roll: "I don't hate blacks, I just love white people."

I'm not sure how continuing education courses work, but many colleges and universities have an anonymous evaluation form for students to fill out at the end of the quarter/semester.

That's a much better way to put it, I think. The way you worded it originally, and the general tone of your opening post, made it seem that basic survival was a challenge for people who couldn't hear, which struck me as an audist and fatalist attitude. As my 5-year old son is Deaf (yes, I...

Seriously? You consider life that challenging simply because you can't hear? It's actually a struggle for you to even survive? Good grief. You need to have a long talk with the many happy and successful Deaf people in the world because your perspective is pretty screwed up.

Sounds like you got yourself a real professional. Good for you. :)

I assume the OP is referring to fingerspelling. To indicate a space between words, such as someone's first and last name, you fingerspell the first word, pause a moment, then fingerspell the next word. There are other techniques like moving the hand slightly forward on the last letter to...

O.K. Thanks for the clarification. Even after two-years of formal ASL study, I still consider myself a newbie and have no problem with second guessing myself. :D

Then it's a variation of WIN because the one I'm most familiar with has the non-dominant hand in the S handshape. However, I recall that it was used in context to mean "take advantage of" in a positive sense. Or perhaps I'm remembering things incorrectly.

Middle finger off the palm is most commonly used in the negative sense. A positive version I've seen is: > non-dominant hand, open-B, neutral space, palm up > dominant hand, palm sideways, starts in a loose 5 and then "scoops" across the non-dominant hand and ends in an S handshape (similar...

One thing to watch our for is acting out the song. You want to make sure you're conveying clear and complete concepts and not just gesturing in time with the music.

"Englishicized"? That's a new one. Most people just say, "I don't want my signing to be too English." But anyway, translating music is tricky. You want to do some deep analysis of the text and determine what concept is being portrayed, and then sign the concepts rather than the lyrics. If...

Here in America, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandates that most programming on television be closed captioned. The exceptions are based on, I think, number of viewers, so if it's below a certain threshold then it's not required. This is to protect small and private stations...