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Hello..

I want to share with you that I have been watching the Deaf Bilingual Coalition through vlogs, blogs, and emails. I was very interested to see how they have prepared to have a protest at Alexander Graham Bell Association Conference. I was concerned about their preparation until DBC explained of their preparation of the protest. I was convinced to see in DBC group, the people were intelligent and diplomatic who are leadership and appropriate.

I’m impressed with David Eberwein who has courage to fly and join the protest all the way from Bay area to VA. It was good to see DBC that has a National Association of the Deaf (NAD) lawyer who is involved and has the knowledge of legal. Also, I’m impressed with John Egbert’s and Barb Digi’s explanation of the preparation with DBC very well in their blog and vlog plus several people sent me emails.

I got goose bumps when I learn about the incident with Barb DiGi, her daughter Brianna, Raychelle Harris, and Adrian Mack. The hotel staff dealt with them by an inappropriate behavior. I was very pleased to know that those DBC groups stayed strong and believe in them at the same time. They keep up with their gentle attitudes. DBC does appreciate me enough for me to join their group!

Their information and experiences gave me some kind of empowerment as much I would like to do something about this situation. I can see there are only way to have a talk to people about it after I was pleased have them shared of their experience that gave me to contemplate for DBC.

I wanted to print out the flyers from Amy Cohen Efron’s blog and Maureen “Moe” Klusza’s cartoon (The Greatest Irony: Deaf Baby Cuffed, Hearing Baby learns ASL) on Raychelle’s blog. That way I can pass out the flyers to people at the La Jolla Shores beach (SDDSurfers.blogspot.com). I was surprised that most of my friends already aware of it. At same time, I was impressed with them that they have been keeping up with vblogs! So, we had a great conversation at the beach and we were agreed with DBC that they were doing an excellent job. We understood the greatest irony: Audio Verbal Therapy (AVT) forbids signing for Deaf babies while okay for hearing baby learn American Sign Language (ASL)! I’m very pleased to see people who acknowledged and supported DBC!

If AgBAD is considered to have a conference in San Diego then I’m ready to join DBC!

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This afternoon, I decided to read the People magazine (issued 7/23/07) and I was so interested reading the article about Michael Moore‘s film Sicko has stirred debate on health care in America. These families thought they were protected by insurance – until they needed help the most. I read through until Annette Noe’s father’s complaint that she did not get the cochlear implants by both ears at the same time. I was surprised that Doug gave a strong statement without make a judgment on the Deaf community. The statement was, “How can anybody deny treatment for a child with disabilities?” asks her father. “In this country?”

I would like to ask questions for the Noe Family. Do they have any knowledge about American Sign Language? Have they look up on the internet about deaf? Now, I do have a question for National Association of the Deaf. Have NAD done this kind of situation before? How can you provide information about deaf community to a hearing parent with a deaf child? I would like to ask the same question for Michael Moore!