#deaf awareness month

Today’s Practice 09/27/2016

Practice Makes Perfect!! Happy Deaf Awareness Month!! We are nearing the end of the month. But please don’t let that stop you. Please stay abreast of all the issues affecting the Deaf Community and learn how to be a good ally.

Today’s Expressive Practice is Rikki Poynter discussing Police Brutality

Today’s Receptive Practice is Gallaudet University’s Doctorate Student Joseph Santini.

Today’s Practice 09/25/2016

Practice Makes Perfect!! Happy Deaf Awareness Month!! All this month, I will be posting videos of issues in the Deaf Community by members of the Deaf Community.

Today’s Expressive Practice Ren describing “Eleven Things You Should Know About Deaf People”

 

Today’s Receptive Practice miss Ella Mae Lentz  “A Perspective on Deaf Culture”. Ella is an activist within the community.

 

Today’s Practice 09/22/2016

Practice Makes Perfect!! Happy Deaf Awareness Month! All throughout the month, I will be posting videos about issues in the Deaf Community from members of the Deaf Community.

Today’s Expressive Practice is Lissa Zeviar. Lissa Zeviar is a Child Of a Deaf Adult (CODA) discussing the Art of Sign Language.

Today’s Receptive Practice is DeafJennyWitty discussing Identifying and Intervening with Deaf Children at Rick of Language Deprivation.

Today’s Practice 09/20/2016

Practice Makes Perfect! Happy Deaf Awareness Month! All this Month I will be posting videos about issues in the Deaf Community from members of the Deaf Community.

Today’s Expressive Practice is Rachel Kolb “Navigating deafness in a hearing world”.

Today’s Receptive Practice is Amy Cohen Efron. Amy is an activist in the Deaf Community and also a psychologist. She discuses language privilege.

Today’s Practice 09/15/2016

Practice Makes Perfect!!  Happy Deaf Awareness Month!! All throughout the Month I will be posting videos about issues in the Deaf Community by Members in the Deaf Community.

Today’s Expressive Practice is Heather Artinian. If you’ve watched Sound and Fury, Heather was the little girl who wanted to get the cochelar implant. She is all grown up now. Hear what she has to say:

 

Today’s Receptive Practice is from Marvin Miller “Building an ASL Community”. Tip: I would mute it if I were you.

Today’s Practice 09/13/2016

Practice Makes Perfect. Happy Deaf Awareness Month. All throughout the month I will be posting on issues impacting the Deaf Community by people inside the Deaf Community.

Today’s Expressive Practice is interesting. The video I chose for today’s practice is Drisana Levitzke-Gray. Drisana Levitzke-Gray is the recipient of the 2015 Young Australian of the Year Award in recognition of her passion and dedication in advocating for the human rights of deaf people, raising awareness about Auslan (Australian Sign Language), and the rights of deaf children in Australia to access Auslan from birth. Now She’s getting to be signing in Auslan with a voice intepreter, it’ll be interesting to see the interpretation from Auslan to English to ASL.

 

Today’s Receptive Practice is Peter C. Hauser, the Director of the Deaf Studies Laboratory (DSL) in the Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology. He’s going to discuss Audism and Linguisticism.

 

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