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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
DBC and Mentorship: How We All Can Make A Difference...
The Deaf Bilingual Coalition received this “plea for help” in an email from a very loving Grandmother who is taking care of her deaf grandson:
“I have a deaf 20 month old grandson now in my care, I have very limited signing knowledge and I need HELP! He is often angry because he has not been taught to sign and I am just getting started with him, he is a very smart little boy who picks up signs quickly (faster than I do) and I want to do this right. We live in rural northwest Georgia and I have found almost no help here, I love him and want the best for him.
I have ordered some books and a DVD to help us here, I want him (and the rest of our family and friends) to learn to sign, I can see from the little I have learned and taught him that it is for sure the way to go. He is so much more calm when he can communicate his wants or needs.
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
The Buzz about DBC
By Jeanine Wiesblatt
As published in the Buff and Blue magazine at Gallaudet University
September 2008
During the summer you might be vacationing, travelling, working or just being a couch potato. However, there were two major events that had happened this summer. One is the National Association of the Deaf conference in New Orleans, Louisiana and the Deaf Bilingual Coalition conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To write about both events, it would take half of BNB issue! The knowledge and understanding of what DBC is all about will cause a positive domino effect for one and each of you.
DBC was founded by John Egbert, who wrote Mindfield (in Bison Bookstore) who experienced oppression and discrimination as a Deaf individual based on his experiences struggling with oralism ideology. He was formerly a victim of Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf’s brainwashing tactics and puppet games. When he learned about ASL and Deaf Culture later in adulthood, he realized how much he missed out and changed his attitudes and thinking especially realizing that being Deaf is not a medical malady. He decided to get in touch with some well-known individuals in the Deaf community such as David Eberwein, Ella Lentz, Barbara DiGiovanni, and Tami Hossler and later, David Reynolds and they are presently a core team of the DBC.
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