Links: 2008-01-22
Great links to interesting articles and sites.
- Sharon reports Deaf actor in There Will Be Blood
- Sharon also has a great list of over 170 adolescent books containing deaf characters.
- Kathleen says her speech was better after learning ASL fluenty. This is fascinating as I observed an oral deaf person who later learned sign language and joined the Deaf culture do the opposite. Her speech and lipreading skills dropped. Sounds like it depends on the person.
- 10 Great Traits of Deaf Leaders by LaShonda explores what popular bloggers/vloggers have in common.
- KT Tunstall writing music for the deaf
- Scott Hamm writes his first ASL lyrics
Comments
Hi, Thanks for adding my article here. Yes, I have noticed some deaf people giving up their speech, after immersing themselves in ASL and deaf culture. I guess, depending on their background, and their feelings toward being oppressed for many, many years. I looked at speech training in a positive way at least or lighter way. I thought since I had so many hours on speech training, why not using the speech. I do not use the speech, but when I use it, I feel more confided in using speech than I did before.
Thanks again.
Kathleen Kinnee
Posted by: deafk | January 22, 2008 9:20 AM