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I3igxo Posted 12 years ago
Letter Writing

Hi, Im writing a letter for school. Can you please check and see if every things good? Thanks!

As a profoundly deaf student, I always have the great deal of challenges through academic. This university don't have a deaf community or bilingual-bicultural ( American Sign Language, ASL and deaf culture) education which make my access to tutoring service or see the professors very very difficult, due to communication gap. One on one is not available at most times. Not every one knows American Sign Language at this university nor will be able to provide a sign language interpreter in 24 hours. Sometimes I felt separated from other students and the relationship with professors as well. I don't have a proficient language in English and remaining difficulty in reading and writing. Therefore, I primarily communicate through American Sign Language in growing up. Sometimes, the sign language interpreter wasn't present in my class and I missed the whole information during lecture class and the notetaker don't always write out the full information.

Mostly, I always focus 99% of the time watching the sign language interpreter or read the closed captioning on screen. Thus, I am heavily visual learner, I rely heavily on visual to compensate for my hearing loss. Reading captions or watching the a sign language interpreter and look at the visual things such as professors write out on the board at the same time can be difficult for me to follow and learn effectively. Having to look back and forth is not really a very effective way for me to learn, I always have been very frustrating and hang in there.
  

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and added: American Sign Language or ASL is a visual language and completely distinguished from English which don't sign word for word. Being a visual language, the phrases are constructed in the order that makes sense to the visual center of your brain. For instance, imagine yourself drawing a picture of a boy climbing a tree.

  • and added: American Sign Language or ASL is a visual language and completely distinguished from English which don't sign word for word.
  • Being a visual language, the phrases are constructed in the order that makes sense to the visual center of your brain.
  • For instance, imagine yourself drawing a picture of a boy climbing a tree.
  • You would first draw a tree, then the boy, then something to indicate that he’s climbing.
  • In ASL, you would sign, “Tree, Boy, Climb" because that makes the most sense visually.
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and added: American Sign Language or ASL is a visual language and completely distinguished from English which don't sign word for word. Being a visual language, the phrases are constructed in the order that makes sense to the visual center of your brain. For instance, imagine yourself drawing a picture of a boy climbing a tree. You would first draw a tree, then the boy, then something to indicate

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