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It really kind of depends on the situation. You have to look at why the person doesn't want to do something. For instance, I have sensory issues that make eating a certain texture horrible, and being forced to do so by angry adults who thought I just didn't like it was torture. If one just...

Some hearies are autistic... but that's beside the point. As an autistic hearing person, I actually somehow pulled off learning ASL expression and facial grammar and such quicker than many of my allistic classmates.

...I couldn't even get through that post, and I can get through some extremely complex stuff rather quickly. It's not bad English or anything... it's just strangely organized and needlessly complex in just the right way for my brain to refuse to continue to understand it (and it being almost 4...

Yeah, the one time I ever went up to deaf people in public when it wasn't specifically an event or something was after the multicultural festival I mentioned. My ASL teacher and a friend of his were at Starbucks and my dad, in a rare streak of generosity, took me to Starbucks. I wasn't expecting...

The app is free in app stores, I believe, so theoretically one could download it even if it's then impossible to use.

Might be a show of inexperience, too. My dad (no ASL or Deaf culture knowledge) once tried to force me into eavesdropping on two deaf guys at the mall, and my mom (late-deaf, same knowledge as my dad) once encouraged me to go up to two deaf ladies in a Walmart. I have no problem talking with...

I do know she wasn't initially fluent but apparently worked very hard to get that way. I don't remember if it was a case of utilizing the deaf school's outreach, thinking all the school options were crap (I vaguely remember her school district not being at all helpful and just basically not...

I know of a mom who homeschooled her deaf kid... but she more or less went to the school for the deaf and stuff so much that she picked up a good chunk of knowledge of both ASL (through classes) and teaching strategies. I don't remember being told exactly why she chose homeschooling, but I heard...

It does happen. The Wikipedia Help Desk (which is supposed to be for questions about using Wikipedia, d'oh!) gets questions like "please explain the relationship between the political turmoil in the civil war and the assasination of the sixteenth president of the United States" on occasion. They...

I may indeed be able to go to PTCO Day! ...Though it's the day after I get back from college for the year, so it's possible no one will want to drive the 45 minutes it takes to get to ISD...

Aargh, I want to go to PTCO Day! I was specifically invited by like 3 different people last year but had a scheduling conflict and was unable to go... (Watch me not be able to go this year. That's how it always works out when I want something.:giggle:)

Why exactly are you learning it? Knowing if you want it for, say, future teaching certification or to become a terp, or just to have would aid in looking for programs that might fit your needs.

I knew a girl in school who ostensibly had the same terp K-12, but I have no idea how she swung it or if they had to fight for it.

Indiana SD was supposed to have something or other the other year at least (the year I did practicum there) where the students were allowed to stay in the dorms on certain weekends... but I didn't hear that much about it.

Are you getting CC on any of your channels?

...If that's an NBC-run station, then that problem isn't as local as I thought it was (our NBC stations (the main one and Me-TV) wig out on occasion and display random stuff (usually @@@@@@@@@ or something repeated).

You might also check your school district's special services/SPED website, which may or may not have good information. (I would have put up my own school district's as an example, but it's not well organized or easy to find anything.)

I'm sorry, but as I read this, some of the later things sounded a lot like you were calling people jerky for asking the operator not to announce they were on relay when they were repeatedly hung up on as soon as that was announced. As a hearing person, I don't see that as an unreasonable or...

Well, to be honest, a theory has to have repeatedly confirmed through observation and experimentation to be truly considered a theory by the scientific community. If evolution held no water, it would not be considered a viable theory within science. I also note that Ken Ham ignored or outright...

The twist is used as an "oops" of sorts, like "OOPS, cut yourself" (or the rose, honestly); that is, it's for little mistakes, as far as I've seen. #3 is more like "Driving a car *innocent whistling* WHOA! Car accident!" or "SHOOT! Got laid off..." or "*Britney Spears voice* OOPS, I did it...