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Flashback To Oral Abuses....
It is a reminder of when I was in oral school many years ago. They did abuse when I refused to lipread. I was NOT interested in oralism or lipreading. They forced me and "brainwashed" me to follow oralism. I was unhappy. I liked to sign and wanted to use ASL. They screamed at me when I refused to talk. They were mean and selfish. One teacher had a wooden ruler and slapped 10 times each hand for my stubborness in using sign language at oral school. Ugh! Don't ever tell any Deaf how they lipread or any of that stuff. We are happier using ASL. It is our language and our culture.
Thank you!
:fu2: to oralism....
:gives:
Roadrunner said:Hello and welcome to Alldeaf deafteen! Not sure how well you're able to lipread now, but if you were to take some one-on-one lessons with a speech therapist to help recognize how some sounds/letters are formed and being able to more easily see the various patterns of how the mouth moves when forming words, letters, thus enabling to lipread more proficiently...also, even being in front of a mirror and say the letters-words so you can readily recognize them once someone else does such words/letters.
Anyhow, hope you'll enjoy your stay here in AD and have a good one now!
It is a reminder of when I was in oral school many years ago. They did abuse when I refused to lipread. I was NOT interested in oralism or lipreading. They forced me and "brainwashed" me to follow oralism. I was unhappy. I liked to sign and wanted to use ASL. They screamed at me when I refused to talk. They were mean and selfish. One teacher had a wooden ruler and slapped 10 times each hand for my stubborness in using sign language at oral school. Ugh! Don't ever tell any Deaf how they lipread or any of that stuff. We are happier using ASL. It is our language and our culture.
Thank you!
:fu2: to oralism....
:gives: