AG Bell….I Recommend You to Read this Book!

I am deaf and want to learn more about sign language.

 

I am a very successful oralist but want to be bilingual so I learned sign language. Learning two bona fide language is better than just one language, especially if you are having a hard time with just one language…in the oral way for deaf people

 

I recommend you to read “Talking Hands” by New York Times writer, Margalit Fox.

 

Here’s some reviews,

 

Reviews   Praise for Talking Hands:     “Fascinating.” — Washington Post Book World     “Elegantly written. … A masterly and accessible overview of sign languages and research into them over the past half century.” — Nature     “An exhaustive, energetic and frequently elegant tour through the world of sign language and sign linguistics. I know of no other book in this field that covers so much ground so comprehensively and with such care. … Fox’s writing is clear and cogent, informed by the quiet passion of a natural teacher for her subject.” – The New York Times Book Review     “This is a captivating and important book, minutely researched and vividly narrated, about an isolated Bedouin village where hearing and deaf people alike communicate in sign language. Such situations are increasingly rare and precious. Fox’s book will be fascinating to anyone interested in the nature of human language or indeed in cognitive neuroscience.” — Oliver Sacks, M.D.     “An astonishing true story engrossingly told. … Fox seems uniquely suited to unravel the mysteries of a place where people speak a signed language unlike any other in the world. … A fascinating and unique travelogue, and Fox paints a vivid picture of the different personalities of many of the residents and of their traditions and lifestyle.” – The Associated Press     “An absorbing true story. … Fox describes the dusty, remote village and its distinctive interactions in full-color, and also looks at the connection between language and workings of the mind. In accessible detail, she reports on sign-language linguistics, from the history of American Sign Language to the psychology of sign language, and the inborn capacity to create language.” — The Jewish Week     “Fox achieves an admirable balance between comprehensibility and technical sophistication. I can strongly recommend the book to anyone who wants to gain a better appreciation of how sign language works.” – American Scientist     “We are well past the point in history where it is possible for a new spoken language to develop without the influence of other languages. What is so fascinating about Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL), as the village’s sign language is officially called, is that it was born with no apparent influence from any language at all. … For now, at least, a unique sign language integrates everyone into a single community, whether they can hear or not.” — The Wall Street Journal     “A fascinating read for linguists and lay readers alike written in a style that is both accessible and poetic.” — BookBrowse (www.bookbrowse.com)       “Ms. Fox has done a masterful job of utilizing her journalistic competence and sensibilities as regards the Bedouin Signing Village she visited with four renowned linguists studying the development of an indigenous sign language in the village. Further, she has provided the lay reader with a scholarly and intelligible historical review of sign languages and how they have come to be regarded. I would recommend this volume to anyone who has an intellectual curiosity about languages.” – James J. DeCaro, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester, New York       “The author has taken great pains to explain everything in a way that the layman can understand without dumbing anything down. This is a fascinating study.” — Bookfetish (www.bookfetish.org)     “The world of sign languages and cognitive research comes to life in this story of a remote Israeli village that’s become a test bed for understanding how the human brain processes language. New York Times reporter Fox follows researchers, led by University of Haifa professor Wendy Sandler, to the Bedouin village of Al-Sayyid, where isolation, genetics and inbreeding have led to a higher than usual percentage of deafness in the population. In response, the villagers have created a home-brew sign language used by both the hearing and deaf. By studying this unique language, Sandler and her cohort hope to gain deeper insight into how the brain acquires and uses language. Chapters alternate between the painstaking work in Al-Sayyid and a history of sign language itself. Both are gracefully reinforced with vivid examples, from the early insistence of ‘experts’ that proper sign language must produce words in one-to-one correspondence with spoken language to a lively gathering in Al-Sayyid where conversation flows freely in six languages: English, Hebrew, Arabic, American Sign Language, Israeli Sign Language and the local sign language. Fox takes readers on a fascinating tour of deaf communication, clearly explaining difficult concepts, and effortlessly introducing readers to a silent world where communication is anything but slow and awkward.” – Publishers Weekly

YOU WITH DBC AT MILWAUKEE-AG BELL?

I read Mishka Zena’s blog about several CI people of their experience. She was honest to let two sided views explain their experience.

http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/01/15/reasons-for-toddlers-ci-in-1989/

http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/01/17/ci-teen-my-struggle-with-social-life/

Jack Barr had a CI victim explaining his experience too.

http://jackeyes.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/the-ugly-truth-of-ci/

When Aaron V. explained his experience of his CI. A commenter, Susanna said:

“Mishka, I think it’s possibly beneficial for the deaf community for you to post these blogs, But it may be entirely detrimental to parents who come across them in the early stages if they even consider chossing against a CI for an infant. That is my personal opinion. I am not neutral, I am speaking in favor of the choice which allows deaf infants to avoid such painful situations as Aaron described in his childhood.”

Then another blogger, THE DEAF EDGE by Deaf Pundit wrote a blog,

“CI Militants”

http://deafpundit.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/ci-militants/

Today, Mishka Zena’s blog, “CI: Detrimental To Tell Parents The Full Truth?”

http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/01/18/ci-detrimental-to-tell-parents-the-full-truth/

When you read Mishka Zena’s blog about detrimental to Parents, you will wonder why they do that.

 

AGB been doing that for over 100 years TOO!

 

Nothing is new here, AGB and people like Susanna are skilled and win every time!

You wish to win against AGB’s domination, control, oppression, detrimental to Deaf Community????

Me too!!!!!

I will GO to Milwaukee to join DBC’s rally on June 27^th and 28^th 2008 at Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf Convention. Jack Barr will be there too. You come too.

Be part of this BIG HISTORY at Milwaukee!

 

Blue Eyes

Class Action Lawsuit Brought by Deaf human Rights Group is Defeated by AGBell

New York Times
by Edgar Cayce

The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf has defeated a gigantic class action lawsuit which was filed by a group of nearly 3200 deaf people called the Deaf Human Rights Coalition.

Deaf Human Rights Coalition filed a huge class action lawsuit, in the amount of $500 million dollars, against the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (AGB). The founder of the AGB Association, Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of telephone (some claim that he did not invented the telephone, but stole the idea from another inventor) was the instigator in the attempt to remove sign language being used in schools for the deaf. He started a crusade to support the oral method of education, wanting to spread it to all deaf schools all over the world. This philosophy was approved back in 1880 at Milan, Italy. The ideology of oral method was passed by the Milan attendees who were predominantly hearing educators. The consequences of the Milan conference was that it caused deaf teachers to lose their jobs at schools for the deaf because they could not teach speech.

Members of the Deaf Human Right Coalition (DHRC) claim that since 1880, the AGB Association has taken steps which amount to a huge set back for many deaf people’s progress in language acquisition and education and they have been promoting a hugely successful propaganda campaign which targets all parents of deaf children, telling them that sign language will prevent their deaf babies from learning speech.

The $500 million dollar award was to be used for starting up new schools and training more deaf and hearing teachers with American Sign Language skills.

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…….OH MY GOD, awoke with sweat on my face. I was actually dreaming this! This dream was so incredibly vivid. I put my head back on my pillow and allowed myself deep thoughts about it.

Now I realize that I had read a book called “Edgar Cayce on Dreams” by Harmon H. Bro, Ph.D. last week on how to understand your dreams.

Now I wonder…Why did I dream this?

My First Blog in Blogsphere

Hello, 

I enjoyed reading many blogs and vlogs in Deafread.

I did not learn sign language til later as teenager  and wished that I learned earlier.

I read that many of you have same experience as I did. I think it is time that we do something about sign language to children, the children of the eye.

I have learned so much from some of you about why, what happened, who did all this to us? Even my parents told me about the school explaining that sign language was not a good idea.   

Now I will join to speak up and would like to know more about how we can stop the deprivation of education and language for deaf children in school. There are many, many sad stories about many deaf people went through during school years.  

Blue Eyes

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