Comments on Eh? What? Huh?: I Was Once Super Pro ASL And Deaf Culture

OMG.... you have described so much that I have gon...

2010-07-01T18:15:52.137-04:00

OMG.... you have described so much that I have gone through or am going through in my life right now. I have been profoundly deaf since a very small age. My parents found out when I was 3 or 4, and they don't know why or what happened. My audiologist was AMAZED that I could lipread so well and was in awe of how smart I was despite being deaf. I spent all of my life around hearing family and

Eloquent post and interesting comments, (e.

2010-07-01T11:51:01.546-04:00

Eloquent post and interesting comments, (e.

Hi (e It is so nice to find another HOH nerd. I h...

2010-06-30T13:15:10.767-04:00

Hi (e
It is so nice to find another HOH nerd. I have bilateral mild to moderately severe hearing loss and perceive some central speech recognition loss. I am about to trade up to a pair of LARGE BTE's so that people can see that I am HOH so that (some) of them will give me a break by speaking clearly. I bet I could e chat with you for ages. I prescribed my own hearing aid molds and love

It is always good to have an open mind. Being in t...

2010-06-29T14:53:19.870-04:00

It is always good to have an open mind. Being in the "hard of hearing" category does throw some families into a limbo situation. Our little guy hears very well with his hearing aids, and uses oral/aural communication. On the other hand, he doesn't hear well at all without his hearing aids, so we use sign language when he is not wearing his aids. We are always re-evaluating our

Thank you kim. :)

2010-06-29T14:27:19.653-04:00

Thank you kim. :)

Your students are lucky to have such an open-minde...

2010-06-29T02:34:25.401-04:00

Your students are lucky to have such an open-minded caring teacher. The HH have tremendous needs that often go unrecognized, mainly (I think) because we blend in too well. Children are masters of adaptability. Often (like you) they may not even realize how they're compensating, and the toll it takes. Good for you for recognizing this and making an effort to get the word out!

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2010-06-29T00:07:40.250-04:00

http://robertmason.blogspot.com/2010/06/radical-founding-fathers-mcconnell.html

I am currently working with families and children ...

2010-06-28T22:39:57.252-04:00

I am currently working with families and children using ASL. I am also encouraging my students to learn ASL. It depends on what my students want and are interested in. I do talk with them a lot about Deaf culture, sign language, what their hearing loss means, and such. I do think ASL is great and useful for some kids. I am for ASL, I am just not only for it. I am open to other options. I was just

I am confused; would you mind clarifying your ASL ...

2010-06-28T22:24:43.469-04:00

I am confused; would you mind clarifying your ASL experiences?

This was from your profile:
“…I am profoundly deaf in my left ear and mild-moderately deaf in my right ear (severe-profound loss in the high tones, mild loss in the lower tones). ..I started learning sign language about seven years ago. It is what led me to become more interested in hearing loss and Deaf culture. I

Thanks NancyF, I appreciate your comments. Please ...

2010-06-28T20:24:08.057-04:00

Thanks NancyF, I appreciate your comments. Please feel free to email me anytime if you have any questions. :)

I love blogging, hearing and learning from others who take the time to read this blog.

(e

(e, thanks for your rapid response. I agree with ...

2010-06-28T20:06:49.062-04:00

(e,
thanks for your rapid response.

I agree with you that in-between is a tough place to be, and teachers need to be ready to help kids with all kinds of hearing loss and all kinds of methods.

I'll be happy to follow your blog and learn vicariously what you're learning.

NancyF, No one taught me ways to deal with being ...

2010-06-28T19:58:50.178-04:00

NancyF,

No one taught me ways to deal with being hard of hearing because my teachers were trained to work with severely-profoundly deaf children who sign. It would have been nice if they knew how to work with kids like me--who are in between. I was only saying that there was no emphasis on children who have mild-moderate losses or deaf and hard of hearing children who don't sign.

As others have remarked, and you have discovered, ...

2010-06-28T19:41:20.802-04:00

As others have remarked, and you have discovered, there are lots of ways to be deaf or hard-of-hearing or hearing-impaired, and lots of ways to accommodate or adapt in the world.

When you say "Not many people studied other ways they can teach and work with deaf and hard of hearing children," I have to say, the reason your sign language instructors have been emphasizing sign,

Right, Karen Mayes. And what Karen Putz said is al...

2010-06-28T17:19:47.342-04:00

Right, Karen Mayes. And what Karen Putz said is all there is to it. Life is one big journey. There is no need to inject anything else whether it's about your hearing loss or your inability to walk. We are on our own special journey.

Kokonut Pundit

Yup, been there. Now as a Deaf mom to two Deaf ch...

2010-06-28T15:44:46.778-04:00

Yup, been there. Now as a Deaf mom to two Deaf children who have varying hearing losses and have different communication needs, I am more or less aware of the fact that one size does not fit all and that the opinions are just perspectives, nothing more.

Like Karen Putz said, life is just a journey... from birth to death.

Maybe the lesson here is that it all depends on ho...

2010-06-28T14:36:42.836-04:00

Maybe the lesson here is that it all depends on how much effective hearing one has.

The HOH have an entirely different situation than the profoundly deaf (and especially the culturally Deaf). They have different experiences and problems and run into different situations with hearing people than the deaf.

There isn't much to recognize that sphere of experience out there

It's a journey. :) Continue to be open and ex...

2010-06-28T13:31:17.967-04:00

It's a journey. :) Continue to be open and explore, and the world continues to open up even more.

I've been grateful to meet so many diverse folks-- my world has certainly become richer as a result of that diversity. Kudos to you for opening up your world even more.

I try to take cued speech in my adult life, I coul...

2010-06-28T13:30:40.970-04:00

I try to take cued speech in my adult life, I couldn't do it because I didn't know which sounds goes with what. It was mostly guessing for me ( just like speechreading is guesswork) I'm profoundly deaf since birth So I had to cross cued speech out. I also had to cross out SEE because written English or spoken does not come easy for me. It choppy and take alot of thinking and I'm

I was kind of like that too, coming from a deaf fa...

2010-06-28T13:24:09.236-04:00

I was kind of like that too, coming from a deaf family I was anti-CI once. The more I learned about the many ways one can be deaf, the more I'm open to all of it. I look back and can't believe that I actually was anti-CI once. The one thing that made me open up more was my asking questions, I tend to analyze things deep and that kind of helped me be a better person and more accepting of

That says it all, "focus most on who I am as ...

2010-06-28T11:54:53.596-04:00

That says it all, "focus most on who I am as a person." People need to get rid of these high expectations of what we're supposed to do, act, behave and so on. Otherwise they'll find themselves deeply disappointed.

Ah, I've been there and done that. Gone from n...

2010-06-28T11:36:08.018-04:00

Ah, I've been there and done that. Gone from not accepting my deafness at all to being rabidly pro-deaf. Neither worked for me. I have found my place in the center of the spectrum...simply being me...fairly comfortable with either the hearing or the Deaf, most comfortable with the hard of hearing. However, I have realized that there's more to life than the status of my ears, so I don'