[Sca-cooks] ASL

[Stefan li Rous]

Kirsten commented:
> my father, on the other hand.. went into college with hearing folks. and his
> writing skills are extremely good.  i do NOT favor "mainstreaming" all deaf
> students. most of them will never be able to keep up and you are condemning
> them to a second rate education at best.. but i DO wish the deaf schools
> held to higher standards of written english.
>
> incidentally.. i learned to read early mostly due to the ease of translating
> ASL to written. it was a visual=visual transition, instead of the usual
> sound= visual that most english speakers have to go through.

Pardon me Kirsten if I am misunderstanding you. But are you deaf? Unless
you've mentioned it earlier and I've just forgotten, this is the
first time this has ever occurred to me. I haven't had the opportunity
to meet you in person. Obviously you don't suffer from this educational
difficulty of which you speak.


I do have these files in the DISABILITIES section of the Florilegium.

Since you apparently have first hand knowledge of this, if you have
any comments or additions to make to these files, please let me know.

disabilities-msg  (78K)  5/ 9/01    Disabilities in the SCA and period, hiding
                                      wheelchairs, SCA sign language.
SCA-SL-art        (14K)  9/ 8/94    SCA specific sign language.
sign-lang-msg     (18K)  7/31/01    Sign language in the SCA and in period.

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