Actually, attitude is all…

It doesn’t matter how skilled a person is at ASL, fingerspelling, or communication in general with Deaf, late-deafened, hard of hearing, and Deaf Blind individuals.  It’s a positive attitude and commitment to making communication happen through “whatever works” that’s the key. 

 From the Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2007.

 If You Can Understand, Give Me a Sign

By MICHAEL PHILIPS
June 29, 2007

As part of our jobs—she’s a paginator and I’m an assistant editor at the Journal—Khanh Lao and I have communicated by email for almost two years. But it was only after I met her in person at an informal gathering in Princeton, N.J., in November that I learned she was deaf. At the party, we were able to communicate by writing notes back and forth, but it was clearly awkward and time-consuming. If we wanted to continue hanging out, either she was going to have to learn to hear or I was going to have to learn to sign. [more…]

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