I have not yet seen Tribes, but it opens locally soon. I want to see it. I had a deaf student in class about 15 years ago, and she traveled with her interpreter, and I learned SO much from that experience and that student and her interpreter. To try to get the rest of the class to have an appreciation of my deaf student's experience, I had them watch an old movie (Back to the Future) and look for product placement ads. But I made them watch it in silence, and with only subtitles on the screen so that they could experience the assignment as a deaf person. It was a fascinating experience. I often wonder about what it's like to 'think' in deaf. I think in words, phrases, sentences. Without the structure of sentences, I wonder what it is like to think in deaf language.
I'm in the middle of reading this and I am so drawn in. Such a talented writer!
I have not yet seen Tribes, but it opens locally soon. I want to see it. I had a deaf student in class about 15 years ago, and she traveled with her interpreter, and I learned SO much from that experience and that student and her interpreter. To try to get the rest of the class to have an appreciation of my deaf student's experience, I had them watch an old movie (Back to the Future) and look for product placement ads. But I made them watch it in silence, and with only subtitles on the screen so that they could experience the assignment as a deaf person. It was a fascinating experience.
I often wonder about what it's like to 'think' in deaf. I think in words, phrases, sentences. Without the structure of sentences, I wonder what it is like to think in deaf language.