#Deaf Educ

[curiousacademic]

The fact that sign language was BANNED world-wide for almost a century and nobody knows about it is scary.

Research the conference of Milan.

[not-a-biscuit]

Hi, I’m trying to put together a compendium of information and tips from disabled people on how the world can be made more accessible to you. This includes any and all disabilities, whether they be physical or mental. If you consider yourself to be disabled, your input is appreciated.

If you’re not disabled, but would like to help get more information, it would be highly appreciated if you could re-blog, and if you wanted to tag some disabled friends that would be great, too. Even better actually!

(under the cut: further elaboration on what this would include, some sample questions, and the questionnaire and info sheet)

I’ve seen lots of posts from disabled people on small things that would be helpful for them (for example: not putting lots of emojis for people who use screen readers) and would just like to compile all of it in one easy to share document.

I would also love for it to include a resources section for learning more about different disabilities. Things like books, movies, videos, and other posts that do a good job of explaining things to people.

some questions that would really help if they were answered are:

What are some ways that general people on the internet could make your life easier?

What are some ways that the general population could make your in person life easier?

What are some ways people you know personally could make your life easier?

What are some things you really dislike people doing regarding your disability?

What media do you think does a good job representing your disability?

Do you have a social media account concerning your disability that you’d like for me to include in my section of further resources?

Do you have any positivity you would like to share about your disability?

answer as many or as few of these as you’d like, and this is of course non-comprehensive, so feel free to include any other information that you’d like to.

If you think you’ll answer all or most of these, I’d appreciate you filling out the survey linked at the bottom. It will have two sections. The first asks for information on your disability (for organization purposes in the accommodation sheet), and the second asks for actual accommodations.

If you only wish to answer one or two (or have questions/comments/concerns), you can answer in the comments, reblogs, or my dms.

Within he information spreadsheet itself, some disabilities will have entire sections, others will be categorized into sections depending on what makes the most sense. This has nothing to do with perceived importance/severity of the disability, merely with whether the information is generalizable to other disabilities in a category :)

It is also currently in the workshop stage, so if you have any tips on ways to make using the spreadsheet a more enjoyable experience, I'd love that too!

Accommodation Anthology

(sorry if this reads like a corporate survey btw. I really just wanted to include as much info as I could)

[kiakahawhovatic]

Okay but why is no one talking about the disability/accessibility scene in Sex Education 4x7? This is just a snippet of what myself and so many of us face on a daily basis.

We get left behind and discouraged both by our friends and the system DAILY. Yeah, we get a bit of support, sometimes the system will give us a little pat on the back and our friends will stand by us - but do you all see how hard daily life actually is?

When you see us as normal and coping, ask yourself - what do we have to do to support ourselves to make you feel like we fit in with your version of “normal”?

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Just had to try to explain my very over complicated family tree in ASL to my teacher who was still confused when I was like

"No my half sister is NOT my step sister, and no my step brothers are not just- not my brothers"???

I swear to GOD this class.

[wheelie-sick]

I hate that every video of Deaf people just goofing around somehow gets twisted into an educational video by hearing people for hearing people. can you guys go 5 seconds without treating us like bugs under a microscope?

[darlingghoulette]

Steve always gets his devil horns wrong. 

He keeps his thumb out and does the ‘I love you” sign on accident and Eddie never calls him out on it. He even threatens the others under pain of death (their dnd character’s death) to never correct him.

It’s so fucking adorable to see Steve at the edge of the stage, right up front, throwing up an ‘I love you’ at a Corroded Coffin show. Eddie sometimes can’t stand how wrapped around this man’s finger he is. 

[arya7stark]

We all appreciate how much Moonlight Chicken is grounded in reality, so I wanted to add another bit that I haven’t seen yet: the school Heart wants to go to is very real, and it makes perfect sense for him to go there. In fact, it’s probably the best option in the world.

He’s looking at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) in Rochester, New York (this is nowhere near NYC, for anyone unfamiliar with New York geography--it’s right on Lake Ontario and not too far from Niagara Falls). NTID is one of only two four-year college programs specifically for Deaf students in the US, the other being Gallaudet University, which is a liberal arts school and doesn’t offer an Engineering major. I am by no means an expert, but a fair bit of googling says that internationally there aren’t many options for Deaf students wanting to pursue higher education at an institution that specifically welcomes and is prepared to support them. At a lot of universities, they would be piecing together accommodations that many professors might be unfamiliar with, and that they might have to fight to get the school to provide. NTID is fully integrated and makes up a not insignificant portion of RIT’s student body: about 1 in 20 students are deaf or hard of hearing. There is history there, resources, experience, and a built-in community of support.

Anyway, not only is NTID unique in that regard, RIT also has a well-respected Engineering program. For a Deaf kid who wants to study engineering, it’s a fantastic choice.

We don’t know how good Heart’s English skills are, but he seems to have been a good student. And lucky for him, Thai Sign Language and American Sign Language are closely related, so that linguistic transition might even be easier than the written one.

I’m willing to bet Heart has known all about NTID for a while, but couldn’t bring it up with his parents. Him wanting to study in the US has nothing to do with Li Ming, that’s just a happy coincidence. That and the fact that Li Ming is forcing his parents to finally listen to him.

So as adorable as it is that these two lovebirds are going off on a grand international adventure together, I’m really glad that it’s grounded in reality, and that they both separately want to be there, for their own reasons. This story is not a fantasy, but reality can be even more beautiful.

[todaysdocument]

Press Release - Remarks of the President at the Gallaudet Centennial Banquet

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY

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THE WHITE HOUSE

REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT

AT THE GALLAUDET CENTENNIAL BANQUET

GALLAUDET COLLEGE, WASHINGTON, D.C.

(AS ACTUALLY DELIVERED)

Mr. Chairman, Mr. President, Senator Hill, Members

of the Board of the Trustees of Gallaudet College, Ladies and

Gentlemen: I am pleased to be able to join personally tonight

in honoring Gallaudet College.

Twenty years ago tonight, on distant shores

America's sons were engaged in a great battle in mankind's

greatest war. One hundred years ago tonight on these

shores America's sons were engaged in a great battle in mankind's

greatest war. One hundred years ago tonight on these

shores America's sons were engaged in bitter battles of

our own cruel civil war.

How we are observing this historic day says

much about America.

In Europe, America's sons meet tonight in peace

with yesterday's allies--and adversaries alike--to plan

the works of future unity instead of worrying about the

wounds of past conflict.

Here in Washington tonight we gather to honor

an institution of higher learning which was established

as an act of compassion in those times of callous strife 100

years ago.

The character of our Nation is comprised of

many traits.

We honor courage.

We value commonsense.

But, across our 188 years, the great cementing

influence has always been compassion.

In our purpose abroad and at home, we have always

heeded the injunction of the Apostle, who told us long ago,

"Be ye of one mind, showing compassion one of another.

Yet, our wealthy society is tolerating a worrisome

burden of wasted human lives. Tonight, too many of our

people are unschooled, untrained, and underemployed. Too many

are physically handicapped. Too many are mentally

handicapped; too many more are handicapped for life by the environments

and the experiences of their childhoods.  America needs these talents. We must not and we

cannot let them go to waste.

An ancient Hebrew proverb teaches that there are

three pillars of society: education, charity, and piety. [full transcription at link]

[hobisexually]

I have so many problems with karamo but the s8 finale… he sees an asian woman who has severe trauma surrounding her father due to (some) asian culture(s) not allowing people to properly talk to their parents about their emotions or issues with them because that could be seen as disrespectful, oui? so she hasn’t spoken to him after her mother died and that is hard, yes?

and this man chooses to surprise her in the car (after making her cry) with an unannounced FaceTime call with said father, which forces her to immediately talk about why she’s upset with him after three years of not speaking??????? without being prepared, without knowing what to say to a stubborn elderly asian man who never learned to deal with his emotions and fucked up because of it? REALLY?

the LEAST he could have done was tell her in advance so she could write it down for herself and so she could be prepared

sure they talked. sure they made a start. but at what cost. what violence did this wreak on her for no reason. jesus CHRIST THIS MAN ANGERS ME SO MUCH

[mafaldaknows]

Just FYI:

Parents need to be aware that no matter how safe you think your children’s environment might be, it’s better to be safe than sorry. They don’t need their names emblazoned on everything, especially when they’re already from a high-profile family, and their mother plasters their images on Instagram as often as possible despite their father choosing not to, in order to keep them safe.

I won’t post the photo in Liz’s Instagram story in order to mitigate the potential for harm that she’s already done to them, but this isn’t the first time she’s willingly jeopardized their safety for likes on social media, so I suppose it’s a moot point.

She told us herself:

“I am an eXtrAoRdiNAry mOthEr!”

[bodyetal]

To d/Deaf, Hoh/hh, and ASL-fluent people only,

*some things to keep in mind are that we are not currently fluent, so this is hypothetical, and to begin with we'd likely be signing pretty poorly because we're learning.

[ineffectualdemon]

I will never forget that in middle school because I have no musical talent I didn't join band or choir and I also had no athletic ability so I wasn't on a sports team so during the period everyone was else was doing one of those things the rest of us no talent kids had to take "Reading class" where we just read books

And that sounds nice except I was a fast reader and I was only allowed to read 2 pages of the book in question a day. I was not allowed to read ahead of the class and I was not allowed to read my book from home or even work on my homework.

But if I looked too bored the teacher would get mad at me for that and for not reading and "I read it already" was met with a look of disgust and being told to read it again.

So for like an hour I would either stare into space or read the same 2 pages over and over and over again

And I couldn't even hide my book from home behind my textbook because she watched me like a hawk

Why?

Because the teacher of that class fucking hated me for god knows what reason

Anyway I hated the Odyssey for years because I was forced to read it at an absolute snails pace in middle school and it took me a long time to separate out the story from that experience

[teagrammy]

If you are a public, notable organization with the resources to do so, there is no excuse not to have properly written subtitles on your videos rather than relying on auto-generated captions

[repurposedmeatlocker]

At some point I am going to actually have to watch Idiocracy. I mean, I know I don't HAVE to, but I enjoy subjecting myself to such film experiences for the sake of having a better reason to analytically criticize something.

[homelesstransroachguy]

I am sorry

I will take responsibility for this since I don't think before speaking or writing, I'm very sorry Shari. We haven't been the longest friends, but I care about you, platonically. I really do want to make up for this, before I close off, yes. I sent that ask about the gay potion and thought it was funny before you told me how THAT'S ILLEGAL and how very wrong it is, specifically how it's considered sexual assault and considered drugging someone. My community and school usually joke about rape and other inappropriate topics that I thought were normal to begin with, until now. I could've searched it up, but I was not that smart to begin with and thought I knew about this topic already. But I didn't, thank you for educating me and I'm deeply sorry I have to be the reason you take a break from your blog.

[soulaanshere]

if anyone wants to learn american sign language, Oklahoma School for the Deaf is opening up FREE ASL 1 AND ASL 2 COURSES (FREEEE) you control the pace at which you learn

AND ITS FREE

Here’s a link for it, it’s opening up soon and i’m pretty sure spots are limited so sign up now 🩷

🔁 please repost and share the link with others 🔁