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Among twists in budget woes, tensions over teaching the deaf
Politicians have seen plenty of demonstrators outside the Statehouse here. But the crowd that gathered last month was a bit different from the usual shouting protesters, reports the New York Times. Scores of deaf and hard-of-hearing children and their families assembled to complain in American Sign Language. Parents also have confronted new board members of the state’s school for the deaf in pointed, awkward exchanges. And more objections are expected when the board convenes next month for what had, until now, been ordinary meetings on routine school matters…
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Nesmuth
July 30, 2011 at 7:29 am
I am hearing impaired and I made a captioned video and I’m positive you all will get the whole essence of the message.
The Deaf Schools Are A Disservice To The Taxpayers (OPEN CAPTIONS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeO3JyqpwYs and enjoy!
And a lot of the evidence to some of the points in the vlog can be found in here http://www.tinyurl.com/deafbabies and too bad if the sign language deafies can’t handle the truth. They would probably attack the truthseekers like me instead as they been doing that for 15 years already and I’m used to it as it dont stop me at all. Call me a troll, I dont care but this the truth and fact and it needs to be shared than kept in the black box.
Nesmuth
July 30, 2011 at 7:29 am
I am hearing impaired and I made a captioned video and I’m positive you all will get the whole essence of the message.
The Deaf Schools Are A Disservice To The Taxpayers (OPEN CAPTIONS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeO3JyqpwYs and enjoy!
And a lot of the evidence to some of the points in the vlog can be found in here http://www.tinyurl.com/deafbabies and too bad if the sign language deafies can’t handle the truth. They would probably attack the truthseekers like me instead as they been doing that for 15 years already and I’m used to it as it dont stop me at all. Call me a troll, I dont care but this the truth and fact and it needs to be shared than kept in the black box.