Just wondering.....

I first started learning asl in 2008, but I still find it hard to catch every sign in a vid. I can for the most part understand what they are getting at. But since it's only me and what I have taught my husband that sign, I still need more practice lol.

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I am ASL user. I have no problem understanding the videos. I am surprised that most of you don't know ASL.
 
SilverRoxy said:
I am ASL user. I have no problem understanding the videos. I am surprised that most of you don't know ASL.
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As I posted in a thread that got off on phones it is largely a matter of location, location, location. This is particularly true of ASL as you need someone that also knows it to sign with. It seems quite a number of us are in areas where this is not available. See post #10 in this thread for more about me.
 
SilverRoxy said:
I am ASL user. I have no problem understanding the videos. I am surprised that most of you don't know ASL.
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Growing up in the 40's and 50's a lot of deaf and hoh kids didn't learn ASL , we had to 'talk' and be like everyone else in school.
 
I'm truly elated whenever I meet a hearie that does know ASL....Makes it so much easier for both of us.

Let's say....all of the HOH and deafies were in the same room....trying to communicate. The HOH would lip-read...perhaps getting 85% of the conversation...missing out a lot...then having to resort to writing on a note pad?...The deafies used ASL....getting 100% of the conversation....

Being HOH is almost just as isolated as being a deafie, I feel....Family/friends having to "speak louder and slower"....knowing ASL?...keeps it at a normal tone, (even silent at times)......

As I become older...I've encouraged my family to learn more ASL...and they do whenever I misunderstand or can't understand what is being said....
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Growing up in the 40's and 50's a lot of deaf and hoh kids didn't learn ASL , we had to 'talk' and be like everyone else in school.
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I grew up in the late 40's...and learned ASL in the 60's...I did lip-read...but all the others in the dorm were either HOH or deaf...and used ASL....so I "had" to learn or be left out...

Feel most HOH, even severely HOH should have went to schools for the deaf...being bullied and having to sit in front of the classroom in order to "hear" was embarrassing...feeling "different"...as the deaf school, I was "one of them" and accepted.
 
AlleyCat said:
:lol: Guess nobody wanted to 'fess up!

I am proficient in ASL and do understand videos in ASL very well.

Is there a particular video you wanted to know about?
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There were a couple of videos without CC...just had some responses saying there was "no CC" and couldn't understand what was being said....so it just got me to "wondering"....
 
HofH I think life be better if they knew it..for me it BSL.. I feel sorry for people my age who were not allowed to sign when children so many of them.Thank god times have changed..my parents sister made no effort but no loss with them.For me I was in position at the time seeing children and parents grappling with it...Cchildren used something called makoten not sure if that done in States it NZ thing.It all made things easier for me..I am poor lip reader get head ache if did that all day.Must be frustrating for HofH but would thought they must pick some up at least finger spelling.I use it much like you do rr
 
As the HOH grow older and their hearing progressively gets worse...something to think about...So many baby boomers HOH, but they are too "embarrassed" to learn ASL....I've met a lot of severely HOH people who knew no ASL, and when asked "why?"...just a shrug of their shoulders....:hmm:...makes communication so much easier, nevermind the stares and whispering...even in 2015....

Back in the 60's, and even today, some people consider deafness as being mental retarded....and HOH something that "old people" get.....my siblings would not learn ASL....2 sisters practically avoided me over it...1 sister did learn a limited amount of finger-spelling...but was hesitant to use it among other people when they were around....
 
It's intrigues me that there is a mode of communication that I might not struggle with but that's years of time investment to be fluent and I don't know anyone who signs. If I could snap my fingers and know it and suddenly meet a bunch of signers than sure!
 
It is great shame they not learn it,they get lonely and sad to say bitter with life.i go weeks without doing it maybe on sign and husband picks up instantly what I saying but even if had perfect hearing proberly not talk a lot.most of friends family that can do live miles away.i teaching to Deaf brothers both teens early 20's sad to say their parents discouraged them signing and had no great expectations from them it makes me so angry,these boys are not retards they average boys who do so much better than shelf staking.The mother don't like me she see me signing with them...I old enough be there grandmother so limit to what I can do they need own peers which been deprived of.She dam cheek say I not doing them any good they got learn live as hearing I don't understand her meaning.sh refused them CI when children they totally dependent on her very unhealthy..
 
Bottesini said:
These days the site is mostly late deafened or Switched at Birth fans.

I think there's probably about 11 or so still hanging on, and you know who we are anyway. :lol:
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This isn't the Switched at birth fan site? :laugh2:
 
rockin'robin said:
I grew up in the late 40's...and learned ASL in the 60's...I did lip-read...but all the others in the dorm were either HOH or deaf...and used ASL....so I "had" to learn or be left out...

Feel most HOH, even severely HOH should have went to schools for the deaf...being bullied and having to sit in front of the classroom in order to "hear" was embarrassing...feeling "different"...as the deaf school, I was "one of them" and accepted.
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I was single out by my fifth grade teacher, she knew I was failing the class and she kept having me go up to the blackboard to do math problems. Once my oldest sister came looking for me after school and the bitch said to my sister that I was going to spend the night a school all by myself ! I had to sit in front too , I could of go to the school for deaf and hoh right in Boston. No , I was send to public school to fail .
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I was single out by my fifth grade teacher, she knew I was failing the class and she kept having me go up to the blackboard to do math problems. Once my oldest sister came looking for me after school and the bitch said to my sister that I was going to spend the night a school all by myself ! I had to sit in front too , I could of go to the school for deaf and hoh right in Boston. No , I was send to public school to fail .
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Very sad!...You were HOH....as for myself, I went deaf overnight...and was told there were no teachers to teach me and would have to go to a Deaf School (NCSD)....before that, I was HOH too, 60/40 and no HA....sat in front of the class because 1 teacher realized I was having trouble....
 
rockin'robin said:
Very sad!...You were HOH....as for myself, I went deaf overnight...and was told there were no teachers to teach me and would have to go to a Deaf School (NCSD)....before that, I was HOH too, 60/40 and no HA....sat in front of the class because 1 teacher realized I was having trouble....
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Yeah I was born HOH and had said my dad was from Russia and kids born with any disabilities there were locked up and forgotten about . My dad wouldn't let have speech therapy long enough to made a deference
he would never allowed me to learn ASL while he was alive.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I was single out by my fifth grade teacher, she knew I was failing the class and she kept having me go up to the blackboard to do math problems. Once my oldest sister came looking for me after school and the bitch said to my sister that I was going to spend the night a school all by myself ! I had to sit in front too , I could of go to the school for deaf and hoh right in Boston. No , I was send to public school to fail .
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If you don't fit the "normal" school can be a hellish place. Hope school have gotten better.
 
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rockin'robin said:
As the HOH grow older and their hearing progressively gets worse...something to think about...So many baby boomers HOH, but they are too "embarrassed" to learn ASL....I've met a lot of severely HOH people who knew no ASL, and when asked "why?"...just a shrug of their shoulders....:hmm:...makes communication so much easier, nevermind the stares and whispering...even in 2015....

Back in the 60's, and even today, some people consider deafness as being mental retarded....and HOH something that "old people" get.....my siblings would not learn ASL....2 sisters practically avoided me over it...1 sister did learn a limited amount of finger-spelling...but was hesitant to use it among other people when they were around....
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I wasn't embarrassed to learn ASL , I was learning it when I lived in Berkeley, Ca. But when I moved back East I had no reason to keep up with it. No one in my family want to learn ASL .
 
jonnyghost said:
If you don't fit the "normal" school can be a hellish place. Hope it's gotten better.
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No it didn't, I was put in eject class after I failed fifth grade. Yeah school was very hellish for me . When I finish high school I didn't even think of going to college .
 
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