Deaf Bilingual Coalition began as a humble group with John Egbert and a handful of Deaf Leaders last July to discuss about promotion of ASL. The idea was sparked by Amy Cohen Efron’s Greatest Irony where hearing babies are encouraged to learn sign language to communicate while their vocal cords are immature, but deaf babies […]
Originally posted on August 7th, 2007
AGB In Bed with Cochlear Implant Companies
AGB is a non-profit organization to which parents turn for ‘unbiased’ information and advice. How can it be unbiased if it’s sponsored by commercial corporations invested in making millions of dollars and so far hasn’t shown reliable data for its products? I find it […]
Commentary: This is a post created last Feb when people accused the ASL vloggers of not being accessible to non-ASL users. I am reposting this as I feel some hearing and oral deaf people don’t fully understand the issues. Some of the ASL users have never achieved full linguistic competency in written English because they […]
In my last post, I challenged AGBell Association regarding its letter of protest to Pepsi Cola Corporation for ‘implying that Deaf people only communicating using sign language.” How does AGBell Association know the Deaf people don’t speak orally, too? They may be wearing hearing aids and can lipread, too.
I rest my case:
Darren Therriault, the guy who […]
Many years ago while I was still a novice ASL signer, I became good friends with two ASL interpreters, both hearing. They taught me a lot about ASL. These two friends also took me to several ASL Interpreter workshops in the Deep South where I learned more about ASL and Deaf Culture.
One of the interpreters, I’ll call her […]
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