October 5, 2007
Brad Buran, a native deaf cuer who’s originally from Montgomery County, MD, got written up for his work at MIT in neuroscience. It’s the first time I’ve seen cueing referred to as a “technique,” but whatever works.
It’s a neat article, and Brad comes off as very genial and yet… waayyyy intelligent. I also love how Brad’s a doctoral candidate in a field where researchers end up inadvertently using him as a theoretical lab rat. Self-advocacy, anyone?
Click here for the write-up.
June 30, 2007
How neat: the Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation has given Indiana State University $100,000 for teaching future teachers of deaf students the system that has yielded amazing results in terms of English literacy.
(FYI, Ronald and Mary Ann are the parents of fellow native deaf cuer Ben Lachman.)
Click here for an article about the grant. Ignore the simplistic take on ASL’s inability to convey English (English is petty darn inadequate at conveying ASL-expressed ideas as well), and it’s a neat article.
We need more stuff like this happening. So many deaf educators are only trained or even aware of one way to educate a deaf child. Imagine if we had more teachers, more modalities (that actually worked, no less), more options.
Oooh, la, la.
