Christine.Selfe@p0.f147.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Christine Selfe) (10/10/90)
Index Number: 11031
Ilearned Sign language when I entered in Gallaudet .
Having grown up in an area where I was the only deaf person I had ever
met... meeting all these other deafies like myself was a shocking
experience to say the least.
I still have some trouble with signs even though it has been ten years
or more now since.. but I can say that my receptive skills are much
better than my sign skills themselves. One thing I have noticed is that
when i use sim comm (voice and sign both) My signs are L O U S Y and
much slwoer than when i simply sign without voice. Part of the reason
for this is that when one uses voice they are in reality speaking two
languages at the same time. A feat i'd like to see some hearing people
do with voice.
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