[Sca-cooks] ASL

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

<grin>
no, i am hearing...
my mother is hearing, but works with the deaf and was a teacher at a deaf
school when she met dad.  my father is deaf from an early age (Scarlet
fever) and my brother was adopted and is deaf from biirth.. unknown reason,
could be genetic.
HIS wife is deaf from birth, genetic.. most of her family is deaf.

oddly, this brings us back to period.. diseases that we dont see as much of
(scarlet fever, for example) can leave you deaf, but otherwise ok... most of
the deafness we see today that is early onset (not age related) is in
association with other handicaps as well.. so you see more multi andicapped
deaf... and fewer "simply deaf"  although the genetically deaf are
increasing in number somewhat.
Kirsten
kirsten at fabricdragon.com
http://www.fabricdragon.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 1:42 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] ASL


> 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.
>
> --
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>     Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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