Some proudly oralist rather vocal on their Vlog in DeafRead and subtitled their “Oral communication” for those that cannot read lips or for those that wanted to know what this deaf Oralist were trying to say. I thought that was nice for these kind of people but….
They start demanding other Deaf people to start subtitling their ASl Vlog for English-only (monolingual) minded individuals that does take a lot of time to do it.
Many of the Deaf Vloggers have already started doing that but they realize that it is taking a lot of their time to do it, especially in DEAFREAD.COM and gave up on it.
If these monolingual or semi-monolingual could do their effort to start a subtitling ASL(video) for those that don’t have the skills to read English subtitles… like those 30 to 50 million hearing “American” people in USA that are illiterated, then maybe the Deaf Vloggers will understand why they should do the same for those monolingual that have a hard time understanding ASL.
But at the same time we need to think for our Deaf-Blind friends too and technology will help us to improve our ability to do this in the future for them.
Please remember that those that don’t have the English skills is because they did not have a cognitive language(ASL) being with and was “forced” to learn the monolingual method(oral English only) rather than the bilingual method(ASL and English-reading and writing).
The “Monolingual Method” is the AGBell ideology for the deaf which has failed in the past 128 years.
Am I making sense?
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