Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Both are taught by deaf instructors from the Massachusetts Committee on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) or the Massachusetts State Association of the Deaf (MSAD). They are open to anyone...
...Everyone I knew who took the [Linguistics] class felt that it was definitely to their benefit," Augustine said. "They learned about the deaf community. They felt that sign language was a beautiful language to learn...
...moving feat. She answered a question. Her voice was a bit fluty and her consonants soft, but the college junior clearly understood Regis Philbin's query about self- realization; and her reply, a paean to belief in oneself, was obviously deeply felt. Minutes later, when Heather Whitestone, who is deaf in one ear and has only 5% hearing in the other, won the 74th annual Miss America Pageant, she didn't realize it until her runner-up pointed to her. Then she burst into happy tears -- joined, undoubtedly, by thousands of viewers around the country...
...there was ever a Miss America worth cheering -- or crying -- for, she would appear to be the one. But deaf viewers, although thrilled for one of their own, noticed that beyond the well-known gesture for "I love you," Whitestone made no use of American Sign Language, the primary idiom of over half the country's profoundly deaf citizens, whose number may reach 2 million. In fact, comments by the new queen on ASL and deaf pedagogy may make her controversial, in a community where linguistics and education are issues more fraught than those of religion, money or sex. Should...