#d/deaf

[linguist-breakaribecca]

Today, in “I’ll take any good news I can find”:

A production of Romeo and Juliet with Deaf actors signing their lines has been referred to as bilingual! Not just “accessible” or “diverse” but also BILINGUAL!

This makes me happy because the general idea of ASL (and other signed languages) is that they’re just a manual version of the spoken language. By that logic, Norwegian is just a higher-latitude version of German. Signed languages are languages of their own! With unique vocabulary, grammar, and dialects!

#linguistics #language #language and identity #language and power #language and culture #langblr #asl #american sign language #d/deaf #shakespeare #romeo and juliet #disability #accessibility #wisconsin

[crybaby-writings]

if you want to learn sign language of any kind your one and only reason for it should be proper person to person communication. not because it's "so beautiful", not so you can talk shit and nothing else, not so you can say swear words without other people knowing.

if you're learning sign language your one and only reason should be to communicate with people who use sign language. learning sign language means learning about an entire complicated, extremely important culture and the people who are a part of that culture.

you can not learn sign language without learning about d/Deaf culture in depth. it also means learning to stay in your lane on d/Deaf issues. learning sign language and learning about d/Deaf culture does not mean you get to speak on d/Deaf issues, and a lot of hearing people don't realize that.

this has been a notice from a d/Deaf person

#just a few things to keep in mind #♤— ash tries #d/Deaf #deaf #deaf community #deaf culture #hoh #hard of hearing #sign language #american sign language #hearing loss #hearing aids #cochlear implant

[pxppet]

Mute people are humans worthy of respect.

Non-speaking people are humans worthy of respect.

Semi-speaking people are humans worthy of respect.

People with disorganized speech are humans worthy of respect.

Deaf people who don't speak are humans worthy of respect.

Autistic, disabled, mentally ill and all of it. We deserve to be treated like and thought of as real people with as much to offer as other humans. The lack of speech doesn't make us "useless" or "stupid" or "like talking to a lamp." Mute people of any kind have just as many thoughts and feelings and actions to offer as those who speak.

Life is still worthwhile and peace and happiness are attainable for us. We will find people who care to make the effort for us to be understood. You will feel yourself breathe softly again some day. You deserve it.

#mute community #selectively mute #semiverbal #semispeaking #nonspeaking #nonverbal #actuallyautistic #pseriouslypsychotic #pseriouslyschizophrenic #actuallydisabled #deaf #d/Deaf #deaf community

[tortiefrancis]

Happy disability pride month! I decided to draw some disabled Barbies, most, if not all, from the fashionista line!

note: I'm not fluent in Brazilian Sign Language, please let me know if I messed this up in any way!!

[ ID: a digital, stylized drawing of five women sitting around a brown table and talking to each other. The background is transparent, and there's some shading. The women are, from left to right:

A woman a wheelchair and has dark skin, black eyes and long, coily, black hair, and wears pink heart glasses and a short, sleek, rainbow striped dress. Then, a woman with Down Syndrome with tanned skin, hazel eyes and long, wavy, blonde hair, and wears a white dress puffy sleeves, pink, yellow and purple flowers, a pink necklace and pink orthopedic shoes. They both smile.

Then, a Deaf woman with pale skin, green eyes and long, straight, red-ish brown hair in a high ponytail, and wears hot pink hearing aids, a short, black dress with a white collar and hot pink, white and purple flowers and dark hot pink shoes. She does the sign for bus in Brazilian Sign Language, her two hands close to her chest, curved inwards, then going forward, breaking apart, like a bus door opening.

Next to her is a woman with vitiligo with dark skin, dark brown eyes and long, dark brown, coily hair in a large bun, wearing a long, pink, yellow and white striped dress and white shoes. Finally, a woman with alopecia with medium tone skin, brown eyes and no hair, wearing a hot pink dress with puffy sleeves and purple flowers, golden hoop earrings and white shoes. They both have neutral expressions. /End id ]

#sam.arts #sam.disabled #disability pride month #barbie #disability #disabled #alopecia #vitiligo #deaf #d/deaf #hoh #hard of hearing #down syndrome #wheelchair user #wheelchair #disabled art

[saharathorn]

#real. #deaf #d/deaf

[martabak-man]

#Deaf #HoH #hard of hearing #D/deaf #sign language #ASL #disability #tiktok #funny #meme

[moonbeamdagger]

people who are D/deaf or hard of hearing, if you're willing to share: what's worked for you in academic contexts? what hasn't? what could teachers do to make school better for you?

#D/deaf #deaf #hard of hearing #working on a project for inclusive classrooms and would love to have some first-hand accounts if yall are willing to share

[diceydeals]

Hearing and History

12th April 2023

So, I recently found out that my level of hearing is a lot lower than I thought it was and probably always has been.

What does this mean? Basically I probably would've benefited from hearing aids and learning sign language as a child rather than relying on self-taught lip-reading, guesswork, and asking people to repeat themselves/be patient.

Let me tell you, people are not always good at being patient.

I have very mixed feelings about this. Listening is very tiring, and I have always said this! I couldn't do mental maths questions because they were on a tape recording. Ditto language listening and oral exams, which I kept failing at school. French was nearly impossible for me because I cannot hear the words or make sense of the month movements. Thank gd for Spanish!

I didn't have a hearing test until I was in secondary school. That policy has changed now in the NHS so hearing loss is picked up very soon after birth. Basically, there were a bunch of points in my life when someone could have intervened to give me the tools to navigate the world rather than just let me figure it out.

I am not part of the Deaf community. I don't know anybody my age who is hard of hearing or deaf. My family thought it was 'normal' because my mum, her sister, and my grandad all have hearing loss. I was teased for being deaf while simultaneously nobody taking the implications of my deafness seriously. It was a lose-lose situation. Essentially, it wasn't that I wasn't deaf enough, it was that it didn't effect me obviously enough for anyone to do anything.

Now I have hearing aids, I can hear music, I can hear lyrics. I can hear (although not focus on) multiple conversations. Birds are insanely fucking loud. Projectors and air-conditioning drive me up the wall. My tinnitus is definitely worse, but that may also be a side effect of long covid (apparently that's a thing). It's a wild experience that I'm still getting used to, a year later.

I would still love to learn sign language. But now's not a great time: I'm tired, working and studying full-time, recovering from covid, and generally have shit going on. British Sign Language lessons are expensive in person, but learning online is something I'd rather avoid as I can't concentrate easily. This means more travel, more money, more time, more energy. This means I have to wait.

I wish I could've had the chance to learn when I was first diagnosed.

TLDR; just because you can work to the point of exhaustion to fit the needs of the world, doesn't mean you should have to! You deserve accommodations. The world needs to bend so that people don't break.

#disability #actually hoh #hard of hearing #d/Deaf #hearing aids #bsl #how the other half hear #long post #my rant

[f0xx0rzz]

want to learn ASL for free?

Oklahoma School for the Deaf is pre-enrolling for their Spring 2024 classes that run from February 12th until June 30th.

The classes are video format and self-paced. There's two levels you can enroll in, and no grading. and if you run out of time, you can enroll again in fall, or next spring!

#asl #learn asl #coda #deaf #d/Deaf

[complacentrotting]

got some bright red tube covers now my ears are fully decked out 😎

#cpunk #cripple punk #d/deaf #disability #hard of hearing #hearing aids #deafblind

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

in extension of previous post about if d/Deaf/HoH people and AAC users and people who are both consider signing as AAC (which, thank you for responding, i read them all. still fully welcome typing out your thoughts in that post or this post), here is poll to maybe get more responses:

before begin, for those not familiar (please correct me if i get sign language & SEE definitions wrong), sorry abt all the acronyms:

- sign language: using this to include ASL, BSL, etc., which have its own grammar, culture, & history than say the english language

- SEE: signing exact english, signs but with exact english grammar

- AAC: augmentative & alternative communication

poll:

(i didn’t know if i should combine together d/Deaf people & HoH people for this because sign language is d/Deaf culture, i did but please let me know if i shouldn’t in the future)

i am interested in seeing how opinions of part time AAC users who lose speech is different from full time nonverbal nonspeaking AAC users, because majority of people i see calling them signing as AAC are part time AAC users who lose speech, but that may because there’s simply more part time AAC users, but idk if they’ll let me reblog with another poll.

#i have my own opinions which i won’t post on this specific poll bc i don’t want to add confound variables & bias #even tho the tumblr population is already pretty biased… #AAC #AAC user #aac device #nonverbal #nonspeaking #d/Deaf #deaf #semiverbal #semispeaking #lose speech #speech loss #loaf screm #🍞.txt

[crybaby-writings]

now that i have my hearing aids it's like im taking a class in sounds™ and i am so interested in the curriculum

#it's so fun learning about all the sounds that i haven't heard in years! #◇— ash's diary #hearing aids #hearing loss #hoh #hard of hearing #deaf #d/Deaf #hoh and deaf #auditory processing disorder

[pocketwatch-puppettalks]

Being hard of hearing with juuust enough ability to hear people fine with your hearing aids really results in people treating you like you aren't deaf at all. I've been accused of 'not being THAT deaf' when I ask someone to repeat something or need them to tell me what someone else said. I am that deaf actually, Linda, being able to hear with my aid doesn't suddenly make me a hearing person - an aid is helpful, it's an aid, but it doesn't erase my disability. Anyway I'll be turning off my hearing aid now, so kindly fuck off Linda.

#there are so many 'lindas' i have to put up with on the daily #it's just ridiculous #hoh #hard of hearing #d/Deaf #deaf community #hoh community #deaf/hoh

[pxppet]

Happy International Day of Sign Languages!

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Much love to all signers: d/Deaf, HoH, supporters, my fellow nonspeaking folks, and anyone who’s learning and keeping alive all these wonderful languages.

#bsl #sign language #d/Deaf #nonspeaking #hard of hearing #deaf community #nonverbal #british sign language

[saharathorn]

#deaf history #d/deaf #sign language #Nicaragua

[martabak-man]

#christmas #deaf #d/Deaf #sign language #ASL #tiktok #reaction #miracle on 34th street #santa claus