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It is absolutely your perogative to keep doing things the way you have always done them. I or other people here may also have valid reasons why you might wish to change those methods. Good luck.

I'm not fond of the movie myself.

When I attended Deaf Way II a few years ago the major presentations were interpreted into Gestuno. It's still being used at international conferences. I don't believe it's used anywhere else and I am pretty positive there are no "native" users.

She posted something, changed her mind about having posted it, and edited her post to reflect that.

You would do much, much better to create a memory tale in ASL rather than English, if I understand correctly what you've done here. You need to start creating an "ASL brain" instead of having every sign match up to an English word. That will cause you more problems than anything else as an...

When I was talking to a (hearing) French person about my job I used "langue des signes américaine" because that's what made sense to her. Meanwhile if I'm talking to someone who doesn't know about sign language, if I say "LSF" or "langue des signes française" they aren't going to have a clue...

That is absolutely correct. Transliterating is between different modes while interpreting is between different languages. Also, as far as Gestuno, I've seen it used once, at Deaf Way II. I can't imagine why an interpreter who doesn't work at large international deaf conferences would need to...

U.S. troops losing hearing in "epidemic" numbers AP IMPACT: US troops losing hearing - Yahoo! News Wonder what this is going to mean for the HA industry...would be nice to see some of that military money going towards research but that'll never happen.

Try this: Go to OhSoEZhome. Click "Deaf Events" and then "Florida." If there isn't anything upcoming, email the contacts from previous events and inquire about future events. Good luck.

If only. ;)

I should clarify that the students in my class are fluent in ASL and do know that it's a language. (And love to correct me when they think I've gotten something wrong, or help make up nonce signs, etc.) But about picking up on the bias towards spoken language, that's probably it. The funny thing...

Wait a second...wasn't this about scientific studies done by hearing and deaf researchers? Isn't that the point? I don't expect Joe Schmo off the street to accept or understand research about the deaf community (although it would be nice if he did), but comparing posters on this board with a...

Not just hearing people either. I was talking about language skills in my class the other day and one of my students asked "MEAN TALKING?" (This is a class of all deaf students taught in ASL and speech is not required, although they can and do talk if they want to.)

Yes you will. It's inevitable. Interpreters and other hearing people working with deaf people mess up, make cultural errors, inadvertently display audism, etc. Instead of announcing it will never happen, try thinking about how you will handle it when you do screw up. And this is not a...

But you are discussing scientific studies and researchers. You know what science is. You know what proof and support are. You know that "I feel this in my gut" is neither of these things. It doesn't matter that you are not a scientist, but if you're going to participate in a discussion about...

You cannot combine a discussion about scientific research with what you know "in your gut." Scientists disagree with each other all the time for many valid reasons. It's how science gets done. Disagreement does not equal discrimination. If you do not have proof of audism against deaf...

How do you know that? Do you have any examples of research performed by deaf scientists and published in peer-reviewed journals that was rejected by hearing scientists solely on the basis of the deafness of the researchers?

You are giving this guy exactly what he wants. Congrats!

Abso-freakin-lutely. ANY research shows the bias of the scientists involved. This is a useless standpoint: You might as well say "if you're black you have to vote for Obama" or, my favorite I've been seeing, "you're a traitor to your gender if you don't vote for Hillary." By all means...

I would probably sign WALK with the "th" mouth (meaning "careless"), then change to index finger classifiers, where one walks up to the other and bumps into it. Change focus back to yourself and sign SORRY or EXCUSE or however you want them to sign it. Hope this makes sense.