What is it like at Gallaudet University?

gypsy said:
I'm curious to know more about Gallaudet. Are the classes conducted both verbally and visually? Do all students have to be proficient in ASL?

I don't live in the States hence my lack of knowledge on the university.
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It is a deaf university. Everything is in ASL. I am surprised others hasnt gotten to you on this.
 
There are too many tenured professors there that don't sign worth beans, and I haven't said anything about their receptive skills! Lol....
 
I heard that there are more oralist kiddos which makes sense to me. I found it strange that lots of oralist people who are willing to attend to gallaudet knowing that gallaudet is designed for ASL users. oh well.
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Define oralist. There have ALWAYS been orally educated kids who attend Gally, meaning alum of CID, St. Joseph's, Clarke and other oral programs. Granted in the past ten years, as the dorms closed at CID and St. Joe's you don't have a lot of oral kids who did the K-8th grade route any more. A lot of orally educated kids aren't nessarly automaticly "more hearing then deaf" Heck, most of them didn't even choose to be orally educated. Yes, some oralists (meaning for example, the stereotypical AG BAD members) can be kind of snotty about being oral or have issues about being "better educated" then ASLers.....but then again you've got deafer then thou people who think they're better b/c they sign real ASL and attend Deaf School.
 
Tousi said:
There are too many tenured professors there that don't sign worth beans, and I haven't said anything about their receptive skills! Lol....
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That I can attest to..
 
At the rate the world's population is increasing today, there are going to be more oral people in the USA than deaf. Preventives in deafness acquired from infancy are better today than they were 10-20 years ago. Talking this from a macro perspective here.

As ASL catches on into the mainstream ie. Matlin and others making progress, things are making Gallaudet more known.
 
naisho said:
At the rate the world's population is increasing today, there are going to be more oral people in the USA than deaf. Preventives in deafness acquired from infancy are better today than they were 10-20 years ago. Talking this from a macro perspective here.

As ASL catches on into the mainstream ie. Matlin and others making progress, things are making Gallaudet more known.
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I think there has always, at least in the last 100 years, been "more oral than deaf".......
 
naisho said:
At the rate the world's population is increasing today, there are going to be more oral people in the USA than deaf. Preventives in deafness acquired from infancy are better today than they were 10-20 years ago. Talking this from a macro perspective here.

As ASL catches on into the mainstream ie. Matlin and others making progress, things are making Gallaudet more known.
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Matlin is reversing the progress though.

And there's always been a huge majority of oral deaf vs asl deaf.
 
Tousi said:
I think there has always, at least in the last 100 years, been "more oral than deaf".......
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I should clarify, I mean more in relativity with gallaudet's past student base compared to modern date.

posts from hell said:
Matlin is reversing the progress though.

And there's always been a huge majority of oral deaf vs asl deaf.
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I'm not talking about oral deaf though, I mean, oral students - hearing.
 
thought:

What if deaf parents of a biological hearing child sent their kid to Gallaudet. Let's assume the child's first (L1) language was ASL, but later on the kid learned speech and is proficient in both.

Is this child going to be considered deaf or hearing by the eyes of his deaf 'judges', peers?
Will he be accepted by the main deaf culture or population?
 
naisho said:
thought:

What if deaf parents of a biological hearing child sent their kid to Gallaudet. Let's assume the child's first (L1) language was ASL, but later on the kid learned speech and is proficient in both.

Is this child going to be considered deaf or hearing by the eyes of his deaf 'judges', peers?
Will he be accepted by the main deaf culture or population?
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There is a program called HUD= "Hearing Undergraduate .....something...."

It was first implemented during my last semester at Gallaudet so I dont know how their experiences went. Hopefully, they had postive experiences.
 
When I visited Gallaudet in October, I didn't really have a great experience. I might go back and visit again. I was accepted and got a scholarship, so it's worth my time to consider going there. However, when I visited, I got this unwelcoming vibe from some of the students. I was touring with my hearing aunt, and I spoke to her WHILE I signed. Any time I ever used my voice with her, I made sure to sign. A girl at a nearby table in the cafeteria called me out on it and asked why I was talking at a deaf university, and told me I don't belong there.

One boy showing us around was HOH, and told us so. When we were outside, he would use his voice for my aunt and signed for me as well--when we got into the cafeteria, he immediately refused to speak because people would get mad.
 
At the rate the world's population is increasing today, there are going to be more oral people in the USA than deaf. Preventives in deafness acquired from infancy are better today than they were 10-20 years ago. Talking this from a macro perspective here.
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Um there have ALWAYS been more oral people then deaf people. We're still here, and I have a feeling we will still be around for thousands more years.
What if deaf parents of a biological hearing child sent their kid to Gallaudet. Let's assume the child's first (L1) language was ASL, but later on the kid learned speech and is proficient in both.

Is this child going to be considered deaf or hearing by the eyes of his deaf 'judges', peers
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What if the hearing child has a disabilty other then deafness? There are kids with apraxia, CP etc who use ASL as a first language, even thou their hearing is fine. Heck I know HOH kids (most mainstreamed population) who are Deaf!
 
natty_4ever said:
When I visited Gallaudet in October, I didn't really have a great experience. I might go back and visit again. I was accepted and got a scholarship, so it's worth my time to consider going there. However, when I visited, I got this unwelcoming vibe from some of the students. I was touring with my hearing aunt, and I spoke to her WHILE I signed. Any time I ever used my voice with her, I made sure to sign. A girl at a nearby table in the cafeteria called me out on it and asked why I was talking at a deaf university, and told me I don't belong there.

One boy showing us around was HOH, and told us so. When we were outside, he would use his voice for my aunt and signed for me as well--when we got into the cafeteria, he immediately refused to speak because people would get mad.
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I have two different hearing friends who went to Gally to be part of the speech therapy program they offer. They were offered FULL scholarship. Both got a LOT of negative comments and vibes from most if not all of the deaf students. One went for a whole semester before dropping out, another just went to visit for a while and decided against it.

Simply put, most likely, if you are hearing and really want to go to Gally, you have to put up with a lot of crap at the beginning.
 
Daredevel7 said:
I have two different hearing friends who went to Gally to be part of the speech therapy program they offer. They were offered FULL scholarship. Both got a LOT of negative comments and vibes from most if not all of the deaf students. One went for a whole semester before dropping out, another just went to visit for a while and decided against it.

Simply put, most likely, if you are hearing and really want to go to Gally, you have to put up with a lot of crap at the beginning.
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The sad thing is, I'm deaf, and I was still shot down because I used my voice for my hearing aunt who can't sign.
 
Daredevel7 said:
I have two different hearing friends who went to Gally to be part of the speech therapy program they offer. They were offered FULL scholarship. Both got a LOT of negative comments and vibes from most if not all of the deaf students. One went for a whole semester before dropping out, another just went to visit for a while and decided against it.

Simply put, most likely, if you are hearing and really want to go to Gally, you have to put up with a lot of crap at the beginning.
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natty_4ever said:
The sad thing is, I'm deaf, and I was still shot down because I used my voice for my hearing aunt who can't sign.
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Wow, bullshit to those people. They seemed closed-minded. No one should be discriminated against for speaking or using ASL, either way. (I haven't been to Gally or know anyone from Gally personally yet)
 
sheila022 said:
Wow, bullshit to those people. They seemed closed-minded. No one should be discriminated against for speaking or using ASL, either way. (I haven't been to Gally or know anyone from Gally personally yet)
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Oh I'd like to add that one of them (the one who went for a semester) went to Gallaudet about 20-30 years ago. The other one who went for a visit was in ~2006. So it doesn't look like much has changed.
 
LOL At first, My hubby dislikes Gally that he can speak while they gave him dirty attitudes. He had no choice but kept going on and evenutally some of them start to accept who he was like me. I used to reject any one who can speak and does not know sign for years before I met my hubby. Now I realize that anyone who are deaf and can speak are awesome as long as they are cool people to hang out with me.

forgive me?? :D i think some of us felt threatened that seeing lots of deaf/hoh who speak on gally campus and i felt like, they were trying to act better than I was. It was long long long time. I have moved on and if i see anyone who are deaf and thinks they are better than I am because they can speak. I simply ignore them and enjoy my life in my own beautiful world.
 
e part of the speech therapy program they offer. They were offered FULL scholarship. Both got a LOT of negative comments and vibes from most if not all of the deaf students.
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Well, I mean when a hearing person is going for SPEECH therapy....:laugh2: Most deaf kids HATE speech therapy.
think some of us felt threatened that seeing lots of deaf/hoh who speak on gally campus and i felt like, they were trying to act better than I was.
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That really is an attitude that NEEDS to change. I understand where it comes from, completely and totally..... It's not nessarily anti oral skills/abilty, but rather the attitude that certain oralists have that they're better then those poor signing deafies. :roll:
 
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