This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
Mary Thornley, a TTMW columnist, wrote a fantastic e-mail in response to my column last week about people asking me to slow down my ASL. Portions of her e-mail follow:
In regard to Trudy’s article about signing rapidly, and that she has never known[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
Whenever an ASL student or interpreter approaches me and says, “Gosh, you sign too fast!” I often grimace silently to myself.
I know they don’t mean anything personal by saying that, but it does strike a nerve. It’s not because of my high[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
Mrs. Most, Mr. O’Donnell, Mr. Kendrick, Mrs. Hummel, Mrs. Bruner… That’s how I remember my teachers: by their last names. Of course, I don’t sign the “Mr.” or “Ms.”–I sign their last names (or in Mrs. Hummel’s case, a K-H diagonally across my[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
I first saw DEAFULA in the mid-1990s, and for the next 10 years, I searched high and low for a copy of the movie. A couple of weeks ago, a friend finally found it on a website that specialized in hard-to-find movies–and[.....]