Hi Jillo again, ;-)
I must say this from the bottom of my heart - I'll give you my rating of your nowledge and understanding our deafness and Deaf life.Your rating would be 100.0. At first I never knew you (of course) or have a chance to chat with you. I usually wait and see how it goes before I say anything. Some people are playing people's mind games and lied about it - that is how I knew and have very strong instinct feelings. I am so lucky to have this strong instinct feelings to be more useful than depending on my deaf ears. That is why I was hoping that we will meet each other someday if we get a chance as I have mentioned it once before in other topic. This case of meeting each other that we are here that is nothing to do with a favoritsim. Some self hatred deaf/ hearing need to back off. Dont let them stop you that easily.
That's why I just wait for the right time to get to know their own thinking when I feel confident with a person who have a very positive outlook and full of knowledge about our Deaf culture. That is so wonderful to have someone like you.. YOU HAVE A HUGE DEAF HEART and CONCERN of Deaf children's self esteem / emotional/mental condition. You respect and feel not right for us to have our plights of suffering more than 200 years. Deaf children's need that should come first. After all, the parents looked for the easy way out and don't have real communication with their own Deaf children's needs. That should comes first from day one until now. That's their own naturally communication not audism people's communication of Hearing Standard only.
No matter if they can speak fair or good they still have the communication barrier between the parents and Deaf children or Deaf and Hearing people in this society. That hasn't changed a bit for years in our Deaf Education.
Anyway, I have read many posts you wrote, It is so amazing for a hearing person who does really listen so much about us and our true feelings from our Deaf experiences and our Deaf Education. You know the meaning of what real communication is all about. It's not just speech or orally speaking itself that helps undestand different kinds of lip movement with devices we have anyhow. I feel that it is very encouragement to have those Deaf children to read and write as soon as in early age if the parents are willing to learn ASL that will make a big difference for those Deaf children with ASL.
1. It s so true most of us Deaf children do not understand the concept of English language in some ways because we did not have American Sign Language that helps us to understand the CONCEPT of English language. So this way we could memorize everything as much as we could in the classroom and homework / study so we could pass the tests. I couldn't imaged how dare Audism people thinks they know everything! I ll give you an example - one guy who graduated Deaf school with valedictorian and guess what? He cannot write like me. He is very Deaf and had no ASL in the classroom.. UMMPPH Audism people are being so stupid to make him to use the oral method only.
2. NO American Sign Language in the classroom in public mainstream school while there are many Deaf kids who cannot hear with devices. How dare they let Deaf kids have no real communication while they were forced them to lipread that is not 100 percent to understand? They forced them to speak while hearing kids do not understand them as usual. I think it's very selfish of Audism to try to make us more disabled for nothing.
3. Keep it up what you are doing. You did a wonderful job. I want to say thank you for a big support and understanding where we are coming from. You are a good listener and have the concern of our self esteem and mental health that is important to you as I can see it very much. You are the one I never seen the kind of hearing person with so positive an outlook. Your son is very lucky to have you as a thoughtful and respectful mother of a Deaf son. You allowed him to be himself as a whole Deaf person as is. You taught him to cope and face his own deafness that should be a very positive outlook for him to live with.
Other thing - people cannot expect every Deaf person can hear everything. Also they cannot determine that NO deaf people are Deaf in this society. So they have the right to be with us all along instead of trying to destroy our Deaf community as well as I dont need to destroy Blind people's community because they are blind and wont be able to see the colors. So therefore it s same concept for deaf people who cannot hear or are "able to" hear that needs to have our visual languages and their Tactile Sign Language .I just learned Deaf/ Blind people who feel a real communication of tactile sign language. That is so amazing for them. It is called "Tactle" because it's American Sign Language that helps Deaf Blind people. It's a real communication that we have. We have he right to feel comfortable and express our true feelings without having a struggle or frustration in the converstation. People cannot expect Deaf/Blind to hear everything but the might be able to hear something because of being aware of that which helps him in a way. Some Deaf/Bblind don't want anything to do with it because they think it's nonsense for them to hear with all those noise pollution that is very annoying for them in many ways.
So there are many reasons for us not wanting deaf kids to hear. We can feel and we can understand other like music or sounds and they enjoy it. That doesnt mean they can hear like a hearing people.. Thats the whole point here. People need to be willing to seek the deep truth from me as a d/Deaf and ex HOH with too many artificial languages that confused me to learn English language. It's a real big time failure for many d/Deaf children as far as I am not talking about latened deaf people that cannot compare between d/Deaf and Latened Deaf in some ways. I know some latened deaf are not able to hear with any devices. That is why it is important to have ASL / ES that combines BI BI languages. That way we can get the equal education for all of us. If you dont agree it's still failure for Deaf Education because of audism people wont listen at all. That is a real domination over deaf edcuation that turns me off .
That s what it's all about Deaf Natural Abilities and Adaptations that we can communicate with Hearing people in many ways while Hearing people are not able to understand us and our oral speaking. And, not do so very well in many ways while we are able to hear our devices. Who doesn't understand what real communication is all about for those Deaf children's Deaf Education? That doesnt limit us to learn more educational with ASL. Voices or nonvoices doest matter anymore
Ask yourself
It's already evident in that article that people ignored the whole truth.
We do not need the carts for each classrooms for each Deaf children in each Public MainStream school. That is outrageous to spend all the money of our taxpayers. American Sign Language doesn't cost you or damage anything that harms Deaf children's Mind, Body, and Soul - which belongs to them not you. I feel that all teacher or parents should learn ASL while they are dealing with or working with them. Therefore there it must having to be a real communication between both - not the third parties. That is not how we deal with deaf children. That is not who she or he is from a start.
"Then the whole thing is child abuse of their rights from day one. This goes all along in our Deaf education. They destroyed our goals to be successful. They are too afraid and there is much evidence of this of d/Deaf who are successful without devices. Why is that? Ask yourself again. "
BIG YES, keep learning new things since you are a nice open-minded person with a good heart. Guess what? You are a very liberated lady and stand up for what you truly saw as the truth all those years in the Deaf community. Dont give it, Jillo. ;-)
Many thanks!
Sweetmind
