AGBell Robbed our Dignity for over 100 Years!

What is Dignity?

From Wikpedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity
Dignity in humans involves the earning or the expectation of personal respect or esteem. To esteem persons or things is to give them a high value.

It is like pride, it is the name of an emotion which refers to a strong sense of self-respect, a refusal to be humiliated as well as joy in the accomplishment.s of oneself.

Since Milan 1880, AGBell Association for the Deaf have been telling all of our parents (as well as my parents) that their deaf babies and children should never learn sign language at all and even tell the parents to turn their deaf children away from any deaf people using sign language in public.

And since 20 some years ago when AVT (Auditory Verbal Therapy) was formed, they also tell parents of deaf babies and children that sign language(ASL) is forbidden at all costs.

We all know that many parents want to have some effort to have their deaf child to learn to verbally communicate but many realize that in about ten to fifteen years later, their deaf children failed to achieve to speak clearly and their deaf children eventually switched to ASL(American Sign Language). A majority of the deaf children that learned ASL wondered why sign language was forbidden in the first place after realizing that ASL is GREAT!! Many deaf children have asked their parents why didn’t they try sign language and most of the parents had the same answer, “AGBell (or its cronies) told them not to use sign language at all.

Most of you have asked, “What is wrong with sign language(ASL)?” Why is AGBell out to destroy American Sign Language?……Why?……WHY???

It is because AGBell and its associates are scared that Deaf Community will convince the newly parents of deaf babies about American Sign Language, the only cognitive language that a deaf baby(child) can learn before the age of 6 and have full potential to be ready for schools.

Why is it that Deaf children of Deaf parents out perform in every aspect in cognitive sense than Deaf children of most hearing parents that don’t use ASL for learning?

The logical reason AGBell and its associates such as AVT have been telling parents about forbidding sign language is to create an image of the Deaf Community in a negative perspective in implyin ASL is a non-intelligent language. And the ramification of telling parents of deaf children about the negative perspective of American Sign Language typically spreads to their neighbor, work place and eventually the whole language.

This is why the society knows nothing about the Deaf Community’s normal life because AGBell destroyed our dignity.

This is the reason why DBC (Deaf Bilingual Coalition) was formed. We now have many superb Deaf leaders involved with DBC but it takes a community to win our dignity back.

DBC is working hard and their leaders are getting a lot of emails across the country everyday working on setting up the website, Vlogs/Blogs, and other projects that we need to coordinate. which we like to tell you but we know

AGBell is reading this blog and watching Deafread.com everyday. AGBell is very, very proactive trying to be keeping one step ahead of us and they have tons of money to destroy our dignity in order to keep American Sign Language disrespected in the society.

Yes, we need help with your ideas and also your donations so to be on the same level playing field level as the empire of AGBell/AVT.

As a non-profit, political and advocacy organization dedicated to protecting Deaf human and linguistic rights, the California Association of the Deaf on behalf of the Deaf Bilingual Coalition has generously made it possible for you to make your donations tax-deductible. Visit http://www.cad1906.org and click on “support for Deaf Bilingual Coalition” on the left side of the home page.

Thank you for your support! Let’s win our dignity back into the society that AGBell destroyed in the last 100 years.