Word: asl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Citing financial difficulties, the linguistics department has scrapped both of its American Sign Language (ASL) courses, even though both drew high CUE ratings...
There is obviously interest in the former classes' topic: turnout has been enormous at a beginning ASL course offered by Phillips Brooks House (PBH), according to Tina Kim '96, chair of PBH's committee on deaf awareness...
...couple of students... mentioned that they had been waiting until junior or senior year to take the [Linguistics Department] ASL class and that they're really disappointed that it's not being offered anymore," she said...
...average hospital's public address system, non-ASL-trained staff and often complex written directions and appointment schedules are daunting for most deaf people even if they are just having their tonsils out. For AIDS patients, who may see half a dozen specialists for various complaints, the difficulties constitute a diabolical maze. Nor do many doctors reach out to make things easier. Most AIDS caseworkers with deaf clients can name one who was simply handed a piece of paper saying, "You have AIDS," with no follow- up. Quanquilla Mason, a deaf and blind New Yorker who has since died, remembered...
...scattering of clinics and outreach programs for the deaf. Some have drafted pamphlets using sign- language pictographs and explicit illustration to overcome the literacy problem. (A sample title: "AIDS -- WHAT MEANS? AIDS -- HOW STOP? LEARN ABOUT AIDS!") Others, noting, as one put it, that "the written language of ASL is videotape," have taken to camcorders. An HIV-AIDS hot line accessible to the deaf using small teletypes called TTYs can be reached at 800-243-7889. But few activists have been able to secure funding for their efforts...