Hello! I'm a Student

[kiimbeerly]

Hello there! My name is Kimberly. I'm 20 years old and I'm a psychology/ psychiatric rehabilitation student minoring in ASL!

I really love what I'm studying and just a couple months ago I added ASL as a minor because I decided that we really need a lot more psychiatric help for the deaf and hoh community! There are way too few programs out there for the deaf and mentally ill and I'd really like to help change that!

I'm here to learn more about the culture and hopefully make some new friends within the community to get a better understanding of actually using ASL hahaha!

Nice to meet you guys!

 

[MangaReader]

The deaf and mentally ill...

 

[Bottesini]

The deaf and mentally ill...

I think she meant the mentally ill deaf population...

Not just to categorize them as one.

 

[deafdyke]

The deaf and mentally ill...

There ARE some syndromes where there's a risk of mental illness......
There are Deaf wards in mental hospitals,etc

 

[jackieh5975]

Literally, same here! Even though im a bit younger I also joined to hopefully get a sense of the culture im glad that you want to make a difference. Over here there aren't really many people dyeing to learn ASL and I think that needs to change.