It is undeniable that CI Era is here now and that there is a great hope for prelingual deaf babies to see the beauty of sounds on the land of acoustic atmosphere. While DBC and NAD people are overly obsessed with the right of deaf babies to enter the world and start as a blind [...]
Archive for the ‘Open-Minded Deaf Observer’ Category
Deaf Hope vs Deaf Right
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Posted in ASL, Open-Minded Deaf Observer | 50 Comments »
Confession of A Former Anti-CI for Deaf Babies
Monday, June 9th, 2008
When CI, new technology of hearing assistance for deaf people, was announced in the late of 1980’s and deaf babies/children were getting CI surgery, most ASL-Deaf people including me were fiercely opposed CI for deaf babies/children since it was untested and I believed that there had to be another cycle of false hope or failure [...]
Posted in Acceptance, Babies, Deaf Community, Open-Minded Deaf Observer | 10 Comments »
Is a Term of Bilingual at Deaf Education Proper?
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I question if a term, bilingual, is proper description for bilingual education at Deaf schools. Bilingual educational system is widely used at some US schools where large number of students comes from Spanish-speaking families so it is proper term for bilingual. The American Heritage College dictionary terms for: Bilingual – Using or able to use [...]
Posted in ASL, Deaf Community, Language, Open-Minded Deaf Observer | 96 Comments »
A Weeping ASL Deaf User
Monday, April 14th, 2008
As I overcame for being a weeping ASL Deaf (of Hearing parents or DOH) user, I am seeing a new era of Deaf History that will never be the same as my generation of DOH. Since Deaf Culture that relies on ASL is getting smaller and smaller than ever while more pre-lingual CIers are able [...]
