Courtesy of our supporter Ai-Media on Facebook, here’s a video from deaf vlogger Rikki Poynter about whether sign language should be taught in schools.
Watch it below.
NB: If you can’t see the subtitles, go to Facebook directly by clicking here and then click on the ‘tool’ icon and click ‘captions.’
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Rosie Malezer
October 29, 2016
First of all, I didn’t hear your stomach growling 😉 I am profoundly Deaf and am Australian living in Finland. I use ASL as my communication language and am non-oral.
If you want to learn ASL completely free from a linguistics professor of Sacramento State University in California (learn online), go to http://www.ASLUniversity.com – Dr Bill Vicars is also Deaf and teaches people from all around the globe.
My family are all hearing. I grew up hearing and became Hard of Hearing in 2007 after an assault. I was diagnosed as profoundly Deaf in 2014, at which time my husband and I became students of Dr Bill. We solely communicate with ASL now, even though my husband is hearing.
I wish you all the best, and thank you for the captions 🙂
Natalie
November 10, 2016
Sounds so familiar! I was diagnosed HoH at 15 (hearing loss started at 12) and became deaf (severe) at 25. I totally agree – over here learning BSL isn’t even an option on the curriculum and it really should be. I was sent to speech therapy rather than given the option to sign, which has been usefuI, but it would have been nice to do both or be given the choice. To be an oral/lipreader AND a signer. Now I’m making that choice myself.
I’m lucky to live where I do as there’s a large deaf community here which means I’ve been able to get onto courses easily, and most shops at least know how to behave around a lipreader, but still sign language is so useful – and not just for deaf. My niece and nephew have been learning sign too and they’d needed it a lot recently as my niece developed a bad stutter and wouldn’t talk. Knowing basic sign means she can still easily communicate with the rest of her family.
Having sign on the curriculum would mean anyone with difficulties with spoken communication would still be able to be included, still able to communicate with others easily.