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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Oct 16, 1998 7:02 pm Subject: Introduction New List Member | |
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From: Lourdes Tollette To: "''" Subject: About myself Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:05:17 -0400 Hi Everyone, I am Lourdes Tollette and profoundly deaf. I am new and interesting about Signwriting. Let me tell you who I am. I was born Puerto Rico. My mother told me that She don't know if I was born deaf or hearing because I had a surgery on my eyes when I was 3 months old. So, She say better say "unknown cause" . She was only 15 years old when she had me. I attended Lexington School for the Deaf in New York when I was 3 years old. I live in New York very short time of my life. My family and I moved to Boston, Mass. I attended Boston School for the Deaf in Randolph, Mass and live in school. It was 2 hours away from my parent's home. Both deaf schools are oral. But I do pick up sign language from deaf student at Boston School for the Deaf ( BSD) which was not suppose to do. Most deaf people from BSD always go to hiding room and use sign language. If Nuns see our signing then we are punishment. I live in that school for 8 years and graduate. I attend Keefe Voc Tech High School in Framingham, Mass. Deaf and Hearing are in that school and allow sign language. I pick up quicker ASL from deaf students who from other deaf school that use signing. They took me to deaf clubs and meet deaf people. I believe that ASL is more clearly than oral. Lipreading had never been a 100 percent reliable because 60 percent of the English vocabulary does look like on the lip, i.e., mail-pail, pan-man, 15-50, etc. So anyway I graduate High School and got a good job as a computer operator for 8 years in Mass. My first 6 years from my job, I got married and have 2 hearing boys. After 8 years of my job my husband, my 2 boys and I moved to Michigan. I ended up housewife and take care of 2 little boys. The first 3 years here Michigan I got a hearing daughter. We settled here Michigan for 10 years now. How I find out about Signwriting? I got e-mail from my friend and want me go see the web page. So I did. At first I don't understand what is Signwrite. I read and more information. I learn something and it really make alot sense to me. I wish here college have the course for signwriting so I can go there and learning. But since now there not have that course for signwriting, so that mean I have to learn on my own. It will be very hard and a lot of practice. Lourdes Tollette \m/ Valerie, You can and go ahead put this list. Valerie ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit the SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org Valerie Sutton at The DAC Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA (619)456-0098 voice (619)456-0010 tty (619)456-0020 fax |
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