Oh yes, i think Oralism has been a dismal failure and cruel in the case of the profoundly deaf. My problem is that i have a teacher/class/syllabus who are unable to disconnect "bad educational policy" with the individuals who are teaching that policy. So i have spent the last 6 months having my profession slammed on a weekly basis because if we don't agree that "teachers are horrible people who mistreat deaf children" then we are wrong and not meeting course requirements.
I think most people here are pretty aware that there are mulitple sign langauges - but that would be because we hear about Auslan in the media, and then see ASL and BSL etc talked about in TV shows from other countries (and can i just say it is very strange to watch Mr Holland's Opus now and the subtitles do not match what is being signed, well the do in ASL, but many of those signs have a different meaning in Auslan ;) ) What is fascinating is the completely seperate dialects we have within australia, i am mostly learning northern dialect, but if i moved one state south i would be using southern dialect. Also the fact Auslan is the term used pretty exclusively here now, so maybe people just think "that is what the langauge is called".
I am really loving the kinesthetic aspect of Auslan, and because i am a mostly kinesthetic learner i find the signs "stick" which i love. Putting the sentances together, well that is a whole nother thing ;)
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Date: 2010-06-30 10:03 am (UTC)I think most people here are pretty aware that there are mulitple sign langauges - but that would be because we hear about Auslan in the media, and then see ASL and BSL etc talked about in TV shows from other countries (and can i just say it is very strange to watch Mr Holland's Opus now and the subtitles do not match what is being signed, well the do in ASL, but many of those signs have a different meaning in Auslan ;) ) What is fascinating is the completely seperate dialects we have within australia, i am mostly learning northern dialect, but if i moved one state south i would be using southern dialect. Also the fact Auslan is the term used pretty exclusively here now, so maybe people just think "that is what the langauge is called".
I am really loving the kinesthetic aspect of Auslan, and because i am a mostly kinesthetic learner i find the signs "stick" which i love. Putting the sentances together, well that is a whole nother thing ;)