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there is this girl at school in my class who is deaf but....
hey iam 17 and iam in the 11th grade and iam in special ed classes just in case you begin to wonder how I know this girl so well.There is this girl in my special ed class at school who everybody but me makes fun of just becouse she is deaf which means she can't hear or talk except with using sign language of course and everybody makes fun of her becouse of the way she laughs and becouse she can't hear and talk and so on and they have learning disabilities themselves which makes it even worse you know.This one boy pushed Ahley that's the girl iam talking about into a table and made her fall becouse he knew she couldn't tell on him becouse she's deaf which made me sick so I told the princeapal and you know what's so sad the princapal even told me to mind own business and I think if someone's picking on one of your friends it is your business don't you?I was just wondering if anybody knows any websites or special ways that I could learn sign language so I can help comminicate with this girl so if people make fun of her I can help her feel better becouse right now I can't even make her feel better which is even worse you know so please help me help my friend.
thank you.
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Try going to your local library and get some books on the subject they can usualy teach you the bacics. also the site www.google.com has great charts of the americain sing language alphabet.
just go to:
www.google.com
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then type in:
sing language
and you should see many difrent things!
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Your right! That is so sad that there doing that to that poor girl. There is a upside to learning sign language, for starters it will be something special that you can carry on with you through lige & it's a way to really help your friend right now. My 12 year old sister knows sign language because her best-friend is deaf. Just this past weekend I asked my sister to help me learn it. In two hours I got the whole Alphabet down pat *even after you have learned it, keep doing it just while your listening to music, or watching t.v. this way you won't forget it)(that should be the first thing you learn because if you forget the hand signal for a whole word, you can just spell it out) The best advice I can give you as far as learning it goes, Is write on a piece of paper to Ashley, telling you you would like for her to teach you sign language. I'm sure she would love to be able to teach you new things and it's also a better way for you and her to bond. Here's a few websites that might help you. (Most ppl either learn from a video or a deaf person teaches them)
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That is very sad. Kids can be so cruel. The principal and teacher are not much better which is even worse! You might try getting a parent involved.
Sometimes a teacher or principle will suddenly get very supportive if a parent threatens to take a problem to the school board, which might not be a bad idea anyway.
There are several sign language sites. Here are a couple of good ones, and I hope they are helpful to you. You are a very good friend. :)
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