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Nancy Cole Date: Sat May 27, 2000 10:51 pm Subject: Re: Las Cruces and El Paso | ||||||||
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I think the IDEA law will hit pretty soon in El Paso. Many of the students there travel far just to go there to school. I think the problem is that parents are misinformed about what to teach their Deaf children. It is the same for the Deaf Mexican community. I keep wondering how long people will live in the "dark" ages for teaching Deaf/HH children. I never realized myself how many hearing people do not know anything about Deaf culture or Deaf people. I have a teacher who has taught for 40 years and has a son who is Deaf, and she STILL uses the old methods of teaching. I wish I could start a rally or something and get El Paso to change their methods.....oh how I wish!!! Also, I have heard of Victor from Juarez. My husband has gone to Apache Deaf Camp many times, but this year it will be my first. Don Cabbage is the pastor for that camp and he also knows MSL. We also had a situation here in Las Cruces, and El Paso where Deaf Mexicans were abused. Some of them were selling ABC cards, and made us look really bad. But it has broken off, I'm not sure what all happened. Anyways, MSL is an interesting language, and really good to learn if you live here in New Mexico. Most of the Deaf here, we can communicate fine with each other, and we use something like a gesture language, but it works out fine, and we always figure out what each other is saying...strange but true. Smile :) Nancy | ||||||||
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