Life After Deaf - Documentary Short Film

Life After Deaf - Documentary short film. This is an amazing, heartbreaking, lovely story a Deaf sign language tutor at Lincoln college called 'Pauline Bacon'. Directed by Hannah Skidmore. This was made by my outstanding university film group.

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ASL Education: Advice For The Students

Video: ASL Education: Advice for the students.



This video is in response to another, named "American Sign Language Teaching, On Behalf of the Deaf Community."



Rather than attack teachers with blanket statements, which may or may not be justified on a case-by-case basis, it's best that students be directly educated to choose the best ASL teachers.



If you, as a student, would read every Amazon.com review in deciding whether or not to purchase a $10 cookbook, but blindly spend hundreds of dollars on an ASL course you know nothing about, you have to examine your priorities, frankly.

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If you want to take ASL and really learn the language, you cannot simply rely on the knowledge of college administrators who hire adjunct instructors. You have to ask people who know much more. The answer may surprise you. The best available teacher might be hearing. But, if that's the case, then I can practically guarantee that your teacher did everything they possibly could to learn directly from the Deaf community. You must accept this path to learning as well.



Don't become discouraged. Learn ASL. But to teach, you absolutely must have skills on par with the best of the best ASL teachers. Would you want anything less to be true of your own teachers?

Together Project Video

Together Project video in captioned.



"Together" Music in ASL. Men and Women, Deaf and Hearing of all Nations and Religions. Speak in one Language, Together. Created by: Sar-el Oren Ohana & Asaf Livni.

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Expert ASL Teachers Criticism Of Music ASL Video

Video: Expert ASL teachers criticism of music ASL video in American Sign Language.



The expert ASL teaching consultant saying "No Church In The Wild - JAY-Z & Kanye West (Sign Language)" That video is NOT sign language...



I am a hearing ASL teacher, this is my personal opinion of the recent "No Church in the Wild" video posted by 3 hearing ASL students. I apologize for the background noise, I made this video in my classroom. Here is a transcript for the non-ASL community:



Hello, I'm Katie (my sign name). I teach ASL.



I wanted to comment about a video I recently watched , "No Church In The Wild (Sign Language)". That video is NOT sign language. Honestly, I would use that video to show my students what NOT to do when signing music.

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Now, I don't want to insult the three boys in the video. I think it's really cool you enjoy and want to sign music. I think it's awesome that you are so motivated, and I encourage you to continue improving your skills. Socialize with the Deaf community, get involved, learn, and gain experience from signing masters. I think it's awesome!



BUT... your current video is lousy. You have "dead faces"... no facial expressions or body moments, no grammatical structure... it's like you just randomly grabbed words out of thin air. Your video isn't clear, either.



Honestly, that video would be very embarrassing for an ASL teacher. And embarrassing for hearing people. I'm hearing. I would never take advantage of the Deaf community, of their language and culture, like you did. I'm sorry, but you took advantage of them, and that's not appropriate.



I encourage you to continue to improve yourselves, and I promise you, 10 years from now, you'll look back at your "No Church for the Wild (Sign Language)" video and be embarrassed of yourselves, too.



Related Social Media Responses:

'No Church In The Wild' ASL Video: Under Fire For Major Mistake!

No Church in the Wild ASL Video -huffingtonpost.com

'No Church In The Wild' Video: Fan-Made Video Draws Criticism From ASL Community -huffingtonpost.com

You Put ASL In Shame! -dawnschriver.blogspot.com

HuffPo Covers Fake ASL Music Video -thedeafedge.org

Deaf People Attacked For Defending ASL -mishkazena.com

Supposed "ASL" Music Video Featured on HuffPost Entertainment -ehwhathuh.com

DeafCube#Comments/THIS is Called Spoken English!!! -deafcube.com

DeafCube#Comments/All About Mark Nakhla's Video Clip -deafcube.com

Video For The National Association For The Deaf

Video for the National Association for the Deaf in captioned.



A project created for my Strategic Presentations class at Rutgers University. Thank you to all those we interviewed. Stock footage and sound given credit at end of video. Music: Remember Me as a Time of Day - Explosions in the Sky.

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