Archive for the 'Deafhood' Category

I Chose ASL - The “Human Technology” ~

Posted by LaRonda on April 18th, 2009

“I chose ASL as my path to understanding the world.”
This edited clip was originally made for a local Technology Day event. Join LaRonda as she briefly shares her personal story of becoming Deaf and invites viewers to think of ASL as another kind of technology - a “human technology” - that keeps you connected to [...]

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A Complex Mixture of Deaf Identities ~

Posted by LaRonda on June 21st, 2008

Transcript below
Join LaRonda as she reflects on how each person is greater and more complex in their personal identities and make-up than the sum of their subdivided (D/deaf/HH/Late-Deaf/CI user) parts.

(5:08 Mins.) Hosted by: Videoserver.us

Transcript:
Hello. It’s nice out tonight. Yes, it is night time. It’s 7pm, but it’s still daylight. The sun hasn’t [...]

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Assimilation vs. Defending a Way of Life ~

Posted by LaRonda on June 7th, 2008

At The Rim writes:
The ‘non-Deaf’ are inheriting the deaf world, and will change it probably to suit them.
The old ways can’t go on…
…deaf schools have been decimated, inclusion is here, and despite frantic and heated repulsion of these changes, they continue unabated…
I cannot see deaf culture surviving against the odds, and against other deaf [...]

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