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Reading Calico Joe brought back memories. Memories of the summer of 1973 when I discovered baseball.  Memories of being a softball widow for years after I got married.  They were sweet and bittersweet memories. Baseball and softball memories – and to me, they’re both the same, except with softball t

    Gallaudet University’s Department of ASL and Deaf Studies is a curriculum department. They provide instruction for the study of ASL, deaf people and deaf community. The Department of ASL and Deaf Studies provides undergraduate degree programs and graduate degree programs. The Department of ASL a

Well, I am almost back in commission after a hard drive failure, it was partial…but all my files and important stuffs were intact. And, when one has been out of commission for a while, it takes time to really get back into the fold. Like, discovering the real world all over again.  (OMG!) ….and thin

It's one of the few things that annoys me to no end. It just drives me nuts.

When I read The Hearing Blog’s latest post, “New Research shows Listening and Hearing is Different for Children with Cochlear Implants”, I knew right away that some of the Pro-ASL advocates would mis-interpret the study. And, they did. The study provides critical decision-making information for pare

There is a plan for a large national “Think Tank” to identify challenges in deaf education today, which is scheduled for early Spring of 2012.  The planner hopes for a long-term collaboration to develop and advocate for models and funding to address different educational needs of deaf/hh children in

“Once upon a time Gallaudet was a place where everyone didn’t mind whether one used various sign language and/or if one spoke.  Many Deaf of Deaf happen to be hard of hearing and they spoke on campus. They still considered themselves Deaf.  Why should it be a weight at all? What changed? Gallaudet w

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.  Linguists discover and describes the rules governing language. Linguist do not make the rules. Linguist’s job is to discover what the rules are and how a language system works. languages belong to those who speak them, not to those who study them as

The title of this post was a statement made by a deaf person who flat-out told me “I know what’s best for ALL deaf children.” Who really knows what’s best for ALL deaf children? Some folks will claim that they do and others acknowledge that what works for one doesn’t necessarily work for all. Some [