What is AGBell hoping to achieve by its portrayal that Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) is a credible ideology? Are they hoping parents of Deaf children accept it as a remedy for their Deaf child to become “normal” or “hearing”? AGBell Association created the terminology LSL and its certification so to equate it as equal [...]
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AGBell’s Credibly..the LSL Ideology
Posted: April 9, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AGBell, American Sign Language, communication modality, cued speech, Deaf, Deaf babies, Deaf children, Deaf education, EHDI, Gallaudet, hard of hearing, hearing impaired, Option Schools, oral, oral schools, Oral Success, parents of deaf children, speech
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Gateway to True Bilingual For All Deaf Children
Posted: March 13, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AGBell, American Sign Language, communication modality, cued speech, Deaf, Deaf babies, Deaf children, Deaf education, EHDI, Gallaudet, hard of hearing, hearing impaired, Option Schools, oral, oral schools, Oral Success, parents of deaf children, speech
AT ST Louis EHDI 2012 The three Deaf generation, My wife, Grandmother Shirley Egbert, Mother Stella Egbert and the baby, Hudson. John F. Egbert
Almost Kicked Out of St Louis EHDI 2012
Posted: March 13, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AGBell, American Sign Language, communication modality, cued speech, Deaf, Deaf babies, Deaf children, Deaf education, EHDI, Gallaudet, hard of hearing, hearing impaired, Option Schools, oral, oral schools, Oral Success, parents of deaf children, speech More stats
I almost got kicked out of EHDI for having this poster on DBC booth. Karl White, director of EHDI, came up to me at the booth with a security guard and John Eichwald from CDC to demand me take down the poster in 30 seconds or they kick me out. I told Karl White that Jean [...]
What Had Happened at ST Louis EHDI 2012 at DBC Booth
Posted: March 13, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AGBell, American Sign Language, communication modality, cued speech, Deaf, Deaf babies, Deaf children, Deaf education, EHDI, Gallaudet, hard of hearing, hearing impaired, Option Schools, oral, oral schools, Oral Success, parents of deaf children, speech
A parent came to me at the booth with an expression of great appreciation and said, John, THANK YOU! After the pause, he said that he cried after I gave my presentation. That was at Dallas EHDI 2009. We talked for a few minutes about his experience of my presentation. An hour later, he, the [...]
My Humiliating Experience at St Louis EHDI 2012 Conference
Posted: March 13, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AGBell, American Sign Language, communication modality, cued speech, Deaf, Deaf babies, Deaf children, Deaf education, EHDI, Gallaudet, hard of hearing, hearing impaired, Option Schools, oral, oral schools, Oral Success, parents of deaf children, speech
See this picture with my wife Shirley and my daughter with the Deaf baby in the stroller similar to what happened to us at St Louis EHDI 2012 My wife, Shirley Frelich Egbert and I each both had experienced an embarrassing and humiliating experience during the St Louis EHDI 2012 Conference in the exhibition booth [...]
Is Hands & Voices Really Unbiased and Neutral? I have been approached and encouraged to join Hands & Voices, http://www.handsandvoices.org/, but some have warned me that Hands & Voices is not really unbiased and neutral despite of their mission statement: Hands & Voices is dedicated to supporting families with children who are Deaf or Hard [...]
American Society for Deaf Children 800 Florida Avenue NE, #2047 Washington, DC 20002-2732 Date: 1/20/2012 The Honorable Robert Behning, Chair House Education Committee 200 West Washington Street Indianapolis, IN 46204 Dear Representative Behning, We are the American Society for Deaf Children, a proud national organization of parents of deaf and hard of hearing children along [...]
Nine Year old Deaf Girl Dismembered in Indiana…Audism?
Posted: December 27, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: AGBell, American Sign Language, communication modality, cued speech, Deaf, Deaf babies, Deaf children, Deaf education, EHDI, Gallaudet, hard of hearing, hearing impaired, Option Schools, oral, oral schools, Oral Success, parents of deaf children, speech
See this news release: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/breaking/ci_19623018 and http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/27/9747130-scene-of-9-year-old-girls-killing-a-haven-for-sex-offenders My comment: I wondered why Plumadore did not kill Aliahna’s two other sisters? Since Aliahna is Deaf, did she know how to talk speech normally or she uses American Sign Language? Aliahna was a mainstreamed student at Holland Elementary School and wondered if the school uses bilingual method, [...]
SPEECH is Not a Language, It is Just a Skill
Posted: December 23, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: AGBell, American Sign Language, communication modality, cued speech, Deaf, Deaf babies, Deaf children, Deaf education, EHDI, Gallaudet, hard of hearing, hearing impaired, Option Schools, oral, oral schools, Oral Success, parents of deaf children, speech
Yes, true that I was trained to have good skills with speech but I was actually trained to speak good speech…just for the hearing society, not the other way around. And in fact that majority of the Deaf that were trained to learn how to use speech actually do not have normal speech. Yes, it’s [...]
I gotta tell’ya Visualizing Lip Reading is harder than Visualized ASL. I have been visualizing lips for years and actually assumed that reading lips was normal until I finally brave enough to throughly learned to be fluency in American Sign Language. I actually did learned sign language but not at the level to be a [...]
