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FACT: No one, when reading for pleasure, reads anywhere near their maximum level. When reading for pleasure people read two to four grades below their capability. I forget the study but when you stop and think about it this makes sense. When people read for pleasure they want to relax not...

My daughter is an interpreter. I think the worst part of the job is you still have to put up with hearing people.

Lo! Charles Fort, wither art thou?

Then we are about the same place. Reading that fast, or faster if you practice skimming, is fine if you are reading a 25 cent western. But after a while you do have to force yourself to slow do and think about what you are reading. No one is taught to do that in school. What gets me is --...

I kind of wonder if the way literacy levels are measured has all that much real value. When I was in school all teachers cared about was A) How fast you read, B) How much you understood of what you read. You got a result that looks something like 90% comprehension at 100 words per minute...

It is what I would do were I to have a Deaf Child. Every person I have talked too, hearing or not, who has gone to a hearing school has seriously bad memories of that time. They talk of hatred, betrayal, and failures. Every Deaf person I have talked to who went to a Deaf School talks of...

I'll take that as a compliment but the fact is I only have a sixth grade (formal) education and was a straight "F" student. The only degree I have is 98.6 unless I am running a fever. My mother taught me how to read and how to learn: from books, my imagination, my experience, and the...

Thank you. My favorite form of self defense is Aikido, which is a sort of resorting to a physical non-violence. But it has two serious drawbacks. First it takes longer to master than other forms. Second is skill in it is lost quicker if you don't practice all the time. As to a "bunch" of...

I think you did a great analysis here. I'm afraid my solution would not be approved of by everyone. It is also a fact that solutions I might propose could incur some risks. Therefore I cannot tell her how to handle it. All I can do is tell here how I would tell my grandchildren...

Hmmmm. Frankly I have never experienced "normal" bullying. When I faced the problem it was because I was left handed or because I was a halfbreed. Friends disappear. They don't want to be lined up with you as targets. Community support protects the bully.

Okay. I have a problem here. What is "normal" bullying? Bullying, both adult and child, is ALWAYS directed from some members (but not necessarily ALL members) of an in-group toward an individual or smaller group of outsiders (people with less ability to fight back). Especially if those...

Sorry you can't see the difference between telling a child, "deal with it" and teaching the child HOW to deal with it. Although I have to say when I was a little kid I complained to my mother that a certain kid was picking on me. Her reply was, "When you're ready you'll do something about...

In my culture a good mom does not go out and "actively fix the problem herself" nor does she teach her children to "run tattling to the authorities to save the day" every time they turn around. A good mom teaches her children to solve their own problems their own way so they can grow up to...

I love history. I love Deaf history twice.

Unfortunately my experience has been that the teachers choose the victim the bullies pick on. They are an extension of the school system to enforce conformity where the teacher can not easily do so. When I was a kid I would go to school. No one would notice I was left handed until some...

Glad you are home. Yes, I've seen it before. You try to accommodate hearies and many show you no respect. Go voice off and they have to give you respect -- By law. Hope everything goes well for you.

I don't know how to do it yet, but for those people who would like to read this novel, or others, I think I will form a Yahoo group. That way those people I know and choose to let read it can join and do so. But it will still be private and not "out there" on the net for all and sundry...

Thank you. I had no choice. Monday was work all day and then pester my daughter at her sign language class at night. Tuesday and Wednesday people wanted me to do a dozen different things. Do it Saturday and Sunday or it wasn't going to happen. Did not shave. Only got up to go to the...

I am no longer sure what I started out to write... But it did turn out to be a novel. I just kept going with it and then after 30,000 words woke up with this "description": When imagination is the most powerful force in the universe. When children face adult problems and adults face...

I have to confess I am totally proud of myself. I'm like a kid who just rode his bicycle with no hands for the first time and wants his Mommy to watch. (Poor Mommy.)