Category Archives: Sign Language

DBC Milpitas Rally

Deaf Bilingual Coalition Rally at the AG Bell Convention in Milpitas, CA. See dbcusa.org for more info, pictures and video. DBC Deaf Bilingual Coalition ASL American Sign Language BiBi bilingualism advocacy advocate parents speech AGBell AGB AVT auditory verbal oral oralist Alexander Graham Bell English Swiller Chorost CI cochlear implant hearing aid hard-of-hearing hearing loss […]

should sign language be taught in schools as a foreign language option?

I am actually pretty angry that sign language isn’t taught in schools. We learned the sign language alphabet when I was in 3rd grade but that’s all. It was not offered in high school or in my college. Now I have a health care profession and we come across deaf people all the time and […]

What are some directions to head with the prompt: “Personal narrative on language in our multicultural world”?

Have already come up with two possible concepts: – Language Barriers – Difficulty Within International Communication – Creates Universal “Symbolic Language” To Accommodate – Gives Other Desire To Learn Language – Provide people a sense of “me” – Varieties Within A Language – Spanish Types – English (USA, England, Sign Language, Braille) .