Special Announcement!
Amy Cohen Efron releases a very special 21-day free-online-viewing of her award-winning vlog, “The Greatest Irony” for everyone to watch. “The Greatest Irony” is open-captioned and comes with voice-over by a very talented ASL interpreter, Tracie Cascio Snow.
Free online viewing will be available between Sunday, June 22, 2008 and Saturday, July 11, 2008.
This is to let you know that the free online viewing is closed for tonight.
According to the data received from Google Analytics, indicating that there were 1,521 unique pageviews.
Thank you so much for your support and watching my video.
This special limited viewing release is dedicated to two non-profit organizations, Deaf Bilingual Coalition and National Association of the Deaf. These organizations are currently hosting their national conferences in this summer.
Deaf Bilingual Coalition Conference in Milwaukee, WI - June 27-30, 2008.
National Association of the Deaf in New Orleans, LA - July 7-11, 2008.
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To learn bit more about “The Greatest Irony”
When “The Greatest Irony” first was put on the Internet as a four-part series on March 17, 2007, the response from the community was staggering. After receiving messages sent from around the world, Amy Cohen Efron realized that she had touched upon an issue that brought differing, often clashing perspectives. The video, comparing two of the most popular and fastest-growing language programs for hearing babies and Deaf babies, set off heated, passionate discussions among people from all walks of life. It became clear that the majority agreed that it was unfair to deny deaf babies the opportunity to learn sign language, especially with American Sign Language’s proven success rate among babies, hearing or deaf.
On the About.com Deafness forum run by Jamie Berke, “The Greatest Irony” was recognized as the “Blog of the Week.” Berke had this to say about the thought-provoking blog:
“In her signed vlog masterpiece (a transcript is thoughtfully provided), “The Greatest Irony”, Amy Cohen Efron discusses and contrasts the benefits of baby sign language for hearing babies with the auditory verbal training given to deaf babies. For example, she notes that one of the objectives of baby sign language for hearing children is that it reduces frustration; auditory verbal therapy does not have the same objective. The irony is that while the hearing babies are encouraged to sign, the deaf babies have to use whatever hearing they have, without sign language. This vlog is a must viewing.”
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