Just because YOU don’t see the pervasive discrimination we experience, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist!
Just because WE can’t hear, doesn’t make us any less capable. You don’t get to decide what is in OUR best interest!
Just because many of us are disempowered into silence, doesn’t mean you can discriminate against us freely!
So my sister in law came across a deaf blog ranting about some dude from The Voice, Andy Dexterity doing Auslan when he is not deaf. There was a lot of anger about cultural appropriation and comments about Andy signing badly. It prompted my interest because obvious...
https://youtu.be/qFcFpWzIQNk First, this is an excellent and well done video, everybody needs to watch it! I'd like to touch on my first experience of this video as it completely slammed me. It was used as an educational tool in a support coordination course I was...
People keep calling my phone and I've finally worked it out! Deaf people can't possibly own phones, and this must be common knowledge! Of course!! This totally explains why there will be difficulty explaining to a caller why the deaf phone owner cannot come to the...
No really. I've removed names for privacy as this isn't about any of these individuals personally, but rather the social/cultural context of this discourse. Here are the highlights for those of you without the ability to see the image posted below: "I wonder how...
I've been pondering on this particular judgmental view lately - that it is always a choice where you live. Let's look at this in context of disability: Neighbours Supportive and understanding neighbours are important. Bonus if they share some similar views or...
Check out this video of my little one using baby sign 🙂 He has been signing for booby since about 5 months old. It started with squeezing my finger or boob and progressed to making fists, and then finally to the opening and closing repeatedly of his fist to communicate deliberately for booby. At the moment he is using it for both Mama / booby as we’re one and the same!
I’m also seeing the ‘babble’ of the sign for Mama beginning to form – he puts one hand above his head, and sometimes on his head. He is also aware of his fingers and the need to control his fingers (this is the babble seen in the first part of the video)! At 8 months though, he is already making the “Mama” sound as it is one he hears a LOT around here with 5 other siblings vying for attention!
I also have noticed he will use voice eg. grumble, whine, say “Mama” or cry depending on the person he is with, and use sign – the booby sign – with others. It is so amazing that he is already bilingual in his choices surrounding communication with the people he is around!
Immersion in sign language is the best way to pick up sign I’ve found. The more people that sign to communicate around a person, the quicker they pick it up!
Credit to Kylie Martin for the second part of the videoclip. You can check her photography site out on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/_photography.543/ You’ll also notice my baby features as one of Kylie’s models 😁
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