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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)
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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)

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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)

By trudy|2024-12-07T20:10:15-05:00January 26, 2018|

By Trudy Suggs (Click here for my thoughts on this story in ASL and English). PART 2 (Read Part 1 here) Zeke [...]

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Reflections on “Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students”
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Reflections on “Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students”

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Reflections on “Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students”

By Trudy Suggs|2018-01-26T00:11:34-05:00January 26, 2018|

Video description: Trudy Suggs, a white woman with brown shoulder-length hair, is wearing a black cardigan over a black shirt with green and white dots. [...]

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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)
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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)

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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)

By trudy|2018-01-26T00:04:13-05:00January 25, 2018|

Illinois School for the Deaf Main Building (Courtesy of 1969 Illinois Advance) By Trudy Suggs PART 1 (Click here for Part 2) It [...]

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My letter, 26 years later
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My letter, 26 years later

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My letter, 26 years later

By trudy|2018-01-26T00:11:57-05:00July 15, 2016|

Video description: Trudy Suggs, a white woman with brown shoulder-length hair, is wearing a purple v-necked sweater that ties at the neckline. She is seated in [...]

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Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world
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Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world

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Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world

By trudy|2016-02-14T21:06:29-05:00February 14, 2016|

(Reposted from my Facebook page, February 13, 2016) My (deaf) daughters and I went out for dinner, and my four-year-old asked me why it [...]

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The Power of the Written Word
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The Power of the Written Word

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The Power of the Written Word

By trudy|2025-05-27T10:07:55-05:00October 23, 2014|

My oldest, six years old, has started to understand how powerful the written word can be. I’ve been marveling at her acquisition of English [...]

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The boy at Target
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The boy at Target

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The boy at Target

By trudy|2014-02-20T22:24:39-05:00September 17, 2013|

As I sit here working well past midnight, I can't stop thinking about the most random encounter at Target last Saturday that lasted all [...]

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An Epilogue: Can I Speak Now?

By trudy|2013-01-11T00:02:19-05:00January 10, 2013|

This is a follow-up to an article I was invited to write for the NAD Monograph in 1997. To read the original piece, click [...]

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Can we all just get along?

By trudy|2012-08-08T19:12:10-05:00February 3, 2010|

Perhaps Rodney King isn’t the best person to quote, but “Can we all just get along?” is what keeps running through my head as [...]

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Welcome Addition, Indeed.

By trudy|2014-08-28T11:37:59-05:00September 19, 2007|

This article originally appeared at i711.com. I received a coupon booklet in the mail recently from Similac, a company that produces infant formula milk. [...]

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