Thanks for sharing your life experiences. It helps to have a positive outlook in life. Erik Erikson, a famous psychosocial theorist on personality development lived long enough past his Late Adulthood - 8th stage (+60) to add another stage (9th) for Older Age (+75) to thrive as a person of spiritual content and immortality rather than extinction. Sounds like your journey is not over yet! I agree that bi-lingual approach is benefitial for deaf children. Keep on vloggin’.
Great vlog, I really enjoyed watching it. It’s quite fascinating how different times were back then especially when you described your hobbies such as fishing. I don’t fish, nor are any of my friends. I once did a vlog on deaf education and the importance of fluency in both ASL and English.
The link above will bring you to the vlog I just mentioned. I agree with you, it’s incredibly important that deaf children are taught both languages in order to ensure a bright future for all.
Thanks for expressing your vlog! I also grew up in Residential Deaf Oral School, too until I attended in mainstream high school and hearing college alone. I cannot wait until I get your book before I will need to get out of town as soon as possible to give me something to read in a very warm weather!
I enjoyed watching your vlog and teared myself when you expressed your own personal experience to confront the oral methods and society during your early childhood to teen years. I can imagine how Gallaudet changed your life. I felt the same boat as yours. I grew up with oral and cued speech method. It was delayed in my language to learn. When I enrolled deaf residential in Riverside, California, I was shocked to see everybody using sign language. Of sudden, I picked up real fast. I wish I could learn sign language at early age.
One day, I would love to buy your book. Thank you for your warming to share with our audience.
Yes it was interesting to watch you, it must have been an emotional speech for you. Are you disappointed with your parents for making the wrong choice to send you to a public school or are you glad in a way that you got the opportunity? I am just curious. Sometimes when we look back at what our parents decided to do for us, if they could have done it differently, would we turn out the way we are today. I grew up oral and I understand completely about being a “star” and receiving attention from teachers and then when you go to a hearing school, it goes way down and your self-esteem plummets to the lowest point. I am gratified that I got good education at school but I sometimes wish my parents would have sent me to a residental school but back in the days in 1960’s, residential schools were “no good” and teens were getting pregnant and all that, this was based on hearsay, I don’t know if it was true but it was a very successful tactic designed to scare parents from sending children to residential schools.
Michele,
Yes, it was an emotional speech for me and didn’t want to tear up on the camera and had to say “Talk to you later”
About being disappointed about my parent’s making the wrong choice, NO! My parents were innocent in the first place, they had no intention to deprive me from using sign language. My parents were just brainwashed by organizations or whoever they learned about deafness in the first place. They were good parents but just totally unaware of the necessity in sign language.
This is something that I hope to do for the future of the deaf children in bilingual education. We need to find a way that all parents of deaf children be aware of the necessity of learning two language, ASL and writing/reading English.
I will have many more Vlog post coming about this issue.
Beautiful! Please keep it up.. Deaf children are grateful that you are here for them. They need us more than ever.
Waiting at the train, I watched the hearing kids walking inside from school and I notice a boy that he wears two hearing aids. He speaks very well. He doesn’t know sign language. But his behaviors, he was more like a child comparing to other hearing students. He acted out more than his hearing friends in order to get their attention. I observed how he interacted with them. I felt bad. He is around 13 to 14 years old. I really wanted to reach him and let him know that there is deaf community. I would tell him that at any time he wants to visit Deaf community, he is more than welcome. But I felt awkward to approach him.
We need to figure out how we can reach Deaf people, especially children, who never knew about Deaf community and bring them to our Deaf community.
Thanks for sharing your life experiences. It helps to have a positive outlook in life. Erik Erikson, a famous psychosocial theorist on personality development lived long enough past his Late Adulthood - 8th stage (+60) to add another stage (9th) for Older Age (+75) to thrive as a person of spiritual content and immortality rather than extinction. Sounds like your journey is not over yet! I agree that bi-lingual approach is benefitial for deaf children. Keep on vloggin’.
Banjo here.
Great vlog, I really enjoyed watching it. It’s quite fascinating how different times were back then especially when you described your hobbies such as fishing. I don’t fish, nor are any of my friends. I once did a vlog on deaf education and the importance of fluency in both ASL and English.
http://banjosworld.blogspot.com/2006/10/educationally-flawed_16.html
The link above will bring you to the vlog I just mentioned. I agree with you, it’s incredibly important that deaf children are taught both languages in order to ensure a bright future for all.
Again, great vlog!
Thanks for expressing your vlog! I also grew up in Residential Deaf Oral School, too until I attended in mainstream high school and hearing college alone. I cannot wait until I get your book before I will need to get out of town as soon as possible to give me something to read in a very warm weather!
SKE
I enjoyed watching your vlog and teared myself when you expressed your own personal experience to confront the oral methods and society during your early childhood to teen years. I can imagine how Gallaudet changed your life. I felt the same boat as yours. I grew up with oral and cued speech method. It was delayed in my language to learn. When I enrolled deaf residential in Riverside, California, I was shocked to see everybody using sign language. Of sudden, I picked up real fast. I wish I could learn sign language at early age.
One day, I would love to buy your book. Thank you for your warming to share with our audience.
Nick
Yes it was interesting to watch you, it must have been an emotional speech for you. Are you disappointed with your parents for making the wrong choice to send you to a public school or are you glad in a way that you got the opportunity? I am just curious. Sometimes when we look back at what our parents decided to do for us, if they could have done it differently, would we turn out the way we are today. I grew up oral and I understand completely about being a “star” and receiving attention from teachers and then when you go to a hearing school, it goes way down and your self-esteem plummets to the lowest point. I am gratified that I got good education at school but I sometimes wish my parents would have sent me to a residental school but back in the days in 1960’s, residential schools were “no good” and teens were getting pregnant and all that, this was based on hearsay, I don’t know if it was true but it was a very successful tactic designed to scare parents from sending children to residential schools.
Michele,
Yes, it was an emotional speech for me and didn’t want to tear up on the camera and had to say “Talk to you later”
About being disappointed about my parent’s making the wrong choice, NO! My parents were innocent in the first place, they had no intention to deprive me from using sign language. My parents were just brainwashed by organizations or whoever they learned about deafness in the first place. They were good parents but just totally unaware of the necessity in sign language.
This is something that I hope to do for the future of the deaf children in bilingual education. We need to find a way that all parents of deaf children be aware of the necessity of learning two language, ASL and writing/reading English.
I will have many more Vlog post coming about this issue.
Beautiful! Please keep it up.. Deaf children are grateful that you are here for them. They need us more than ever.
Waiting at the train, I watched the hearing kids walking inside from school and I notice a boy that he wears two hearing aids. He speaks very well. He doesn’t know sign language. But his behaviors, he was more like a child comparing to other hearing students. He acted out more than his hearing friends in order to get their attention. I observed how he interacted with them. I felt bad. He is around 13 to 14 years old. I really wanted to reach him and let him know that there is deaf community. I would tell him that at any time he wants to visit Deaf community, he is more than welcome. But I felt awkward to approach him.
We need to figure out how we can reach Deaf people, especially children, who never knew about Deaf community and bring them to our Deaf community.
Aidan
Aidan,
Figure out how we can reach Deaf people, especially children, who never knew about Deaf community and bring them to our Deaf community?
Answer,….. A Movie, shown in all theaters across the country.
John
John, my mom is just like you. Excellent vlog! Keep your chin up.