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@MaryOToole10 @StaffsPLOD @BDA_Deaf @DEAFvibe @ddeaflinks @SignHealth @ActionOnHearing It's an important distinction, so let's unpack it.

To check whether #Makaton is a natural #language like English or #BritishSignLanguage, let's ask a few questions:
@MaryOToole10 @StaffsPLOD @BDA_Deaf @DEAFvibe @ddeaflinks @SignHealth @ActionOnHearing Are there any native signers of #Makaton? Is it possible for children to be born into a family that only or primarily uses Makaton to communicate in every possible scenario throughout their life?
@MaryOToole10 @StaffsPLOD @BDA_Deaf @DEAFvibe @ddeaflinks @SignHealth @ActionOnHearing Is #Makaton rich enough to express every human communication need, from education to work to philosophy to poetry? Or is it limited in its use?
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I live disability theory. I don't need to read a lot of it.

If I was always reading disability theory, I would NOT BE READING other thinkers I want to read, like Cicero, Epictetus, et al.

Ex: Everyone telling me to read Sara Ahmed's COMPLAINT rn. I'm living Ahmed's book rn. Back cover of epiphany maga...
That photo is the back cover of @epiphanylit . It shows Sara Ahmed's essay "No," a very good essay, alongside my essay, "Some Husbands I Work With."

I had to publish that piece as a "short story" at the time. I told the Editor, "You know this is real, right? I don't feel safe."
Editor at Epiphany? Totally fantastic. Understood that I would change a few minor details, thereby fictionalizing my life, so that the husbands at my work place would not 1) sue me nor 2) hurt me. #AcademicTwitter
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@NL_Assoc_Deaf @NLESDCA @NLhumanrights @1940CADASC
Good morning everyone and welcome to Day Four of what should be the hottest #deaf #deafed topic in Canada. Even the Americans are watching this tribunal. On the docket today are two Deaf specialists.
First off is Tammy Vaters. I apologize for misspelling as it tends to correct to Vaders. That is the Educational Assistant or Student Assistant. She was trained and experienced in Ontario and knows how to do her job. Yes I confirmed this beforehand.
Then in the afternoon is expected to be Dr. Kristin Snoddon. She is a doctor with her areas of Expertise
Inclusive education policy; Sign language planning and policy in early childhood; Literacy; Bilingualism; Disability studies - her bio from TMU.
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Good morning #deaf it's day three of the @NLESDCA vs @kimagreening human rights trial over Carter's education. Hope @NL_Assoc_Deaf and @1940CADASC are paying attention!

On the docket today is quite a list. 5 people including former deputy minister of education @GovNL
@NLhumanrights informed me there will be live captioning today. It's my understanding that it's an individual typing out the transcript.

Bear in mind it's a deaf person tweeting live. Info may be missed or misunderstood. I'll do my best.

Good luck
Back at 7.30 am eastern. 9 am newfoundland. Why does newfoundland have to do it halfway?
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This is the start of a series of tweets I plan to do on a human right crisis in NFLD: special needs education. To be honest it's coast to coast but #nfld is in pretty bad shape for #deafeducation and #HumanRights
But first... monks blend tea. Hot.
The reason for a centralised Deaf school is that resources to educate the Deaf is extremely limited. #nfld in its infinite wisdom decided that local communities had the resources to mainstream Deaf children and only needed to be checked on once in awhile.
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I was minding my business last night, reading tweets about the Bills vs Chiefs game when the below tweet caught my attention.

It's been a while since I've done a faith-based Twitter thread, but Greg Locke's comments have compelled me to speak up. Put on your seatbelts! 🧵 1/14
Greg Locke’s comments are the very reason why I started @AutismFaithNet. His statements are HIGHLY OFFENSIVE to me as a Christian AND mom of TWO sons with autism, with one that also has a rare form of epilepsy. 2/14
My boys mean EVERYTHING to me. It would be easy to write a post about how amazing they are, assuring everyone that neither one of them has a demon. But I think it’s more important to highlight another point… 3/14
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--serve as superintendent of a school for the Deaf and the Blind, found and edit magazines, become a nun, be thrown in jail for not responding to commands from police, be wrongfully instiutionalized, be sterlized against their will, sue a company for stealing their invention--
--and marry. Not just marry, but marrying each other, two #DeafBlind people vowing to face a distantist world together. Multiple DB-DB couples during the time #HelenKeller tried but failed to elope with a hearing-sighted man. She was brave to do so, but others were still braver.
It's hard to stop listing #DeafBlind doings. Be found guilty of treason by a show trial! Flee the Hapsburgs' secret police! Or humler tasks, such as patiently saving money from making brooms to buy a house. But my point remains: #HelenKeller was not a wonder.
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The online review of #France by the UN Disability Committee continues today at 12.30 pm CET. You can watch the dialogue live in English, French and International Sign. #CRPD25 #CRPDNow

👉media.un.org/en/webtv

Live-tweet will continue under this thread.
The public meeting between the Committee and the French representatives resumes now.

Today the Committee will examine the implementation by France of articles 11 to 21 of the UN Convention and follow-up on issues raised during the dialogue on Wednesday. #CRPD25 #CRPDNow
France says that since 2017, non-discrimination is at the heart of the gov policies. According to the representative, accessible helplines are available for victims with disabilities.
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The online review of #France by the UN Disability Committee starts today at 12.30 pm CET. You can watch the dialogue live in English, French and International Sign. #CRPD25 #CRPDNow

We will be live-tweeting.

👉 media.un.org/en/webtv Review of France by the UN ...
L'évaluation de la France par le Comité ONU sur le handicap commence aujourd'hui, en ligne, à 12h30. Vous pouvez suivre la session en anglais, français et langue des signes internationale. #CDPH25

Nous allons twitter en direct (en anglais).

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Review of France starts now with an introduction by French delegation and presentation of the French report by the Secretary of State in charge of People with Disabilities @s_cluzel. Today the Committee will ask questions on articles 1 to 10 of the UN Convention. #CRPD25
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My deaf mom built & wired avionics for helicopters including choppers used by the first woman to fly for the #NYPD. She was once in a Budweiser commercial during the “For all you do, this Bud’s for you!” advertising phase. #WomenInspire #MothersDay #Deaf (1/7)
In ’88 Mary Lowery was the first woman assigned to the NYPD’s Aviation Unit, the same year Mom was wiring avionics for Heli-Dyne in Hurst, TX. One helicopter they built was for the NYPD and their 1st ever with a “bambi bucket”. (2/7)
When the helicopter was complete the NYPD gave mom a baseball hat w/their logo. Dad used Mom's to try to get out of a traffic ticket. I was there & acted as his interpreter. Dad told the truth to me & I interpreted a better lie to the cop. We got off.We didn’t need the hat. (3/7)
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A request for networking help:

You guys there is SO MUCH bullshit going on in MT in EI/deaf ed. The entire state and all deaf people, really, but cartoon-villain-like shit happening with the kids. (🧵 1/)

TL;DR how does one whistleblow Part C violations?

#deaf #deaftwitter
I know it's not just MT, and I know I'm one of many people fighting battles in this war. But there are some specifics here (& I have already done a LOT of work on this) so please FIRST read through my little preamble thread and THEN reply with suggestions <3 (2/
The fundamental problems are (a) a complete lack of services (not like, we don't provide enough support. Like, no one qualified do to that lives in this state.) (B) An old guard set of (hearing) people running everything- the same people who have been running it for 20 years (3/
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Starting a thread describing my research to address the #DeafEd #TeacherShortage

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@ace_dhh @AACTE @ceasd1868 @NAD1880 Screenshot of the title pag...
2/We know there’s a #DeafEd #TeacherShortage...but what do we DO?? #scicomm

My research comprehensively looked at all teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing (TODHH) in one state. Where do they work? Where were they trained? What are their challenges?
3/ What are THEIR ideas for addressing the #DeafEd #TeacherShortage (hmm...asking teachers their opinions on education issues. Novel concept🧐)
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قوت گویائی اور سماعت سے محروم لوگ اس ویڈیو کے ذریعے یہ جان سکتے ہیں کہ کورونا کی علامات کیا ہیں اور یہ بیماری لاحق ہونے کی صورت میں کیا کرنا چاہیے

#COVID19 #guidelines for #deaf and #hard_of_hearing persons.
#coronavirus #COVID19Pandemic #pandemic #hearing #precautions #StaySafe
کورونا وائرس کی وبا میں قوت گویائی اور سماعت سے محروم افراد کے لیے اشاروں کی زبان میں رہنمائی. ویڈیو دیکھیں اور جانیں کہ کورونا وائرس سے بچنے کے لیے کون سی احتیاطی تدابیر ضروری ہیں۔
#Pakistan #SignLanguage #StaySafeEveryone #KnowledgeIsPower #wednesdaymorning #pandemic #COVID
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Thank-you for all the support and interest in my thread about the impact masks has on the hearing impaired population. My workplace have been fantastic and are already investigating suitable masks. @OT_Expert @elly_chapple #COVID-19 #NHS #Masks #Deaf #HearingImpaired
I thought I would share what we have found out so far:
Face masks must conform to British Adopted European Standards (BS EN 14683:2019) including construction, design, performance requirements and testing methods. Image
USA supplies two types of see through surgical masks that meets their FDA standards.
1. The ClearMask - theclearmask.com/product
2. The Communicator Surgical Mask - safenclear.com
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The best kind of #DisHist is that of the everyday.
In 2014, @bbcouch researched the story of Duncan McKenzie and Nesta Holgate, a deaf British couple whose 1940 wedding featured in a British Pathé video.
1/n The black and white photo s...
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'Everyone at the wedding is both deaf and dumb and they all converse in sign language.'
This is the video of the wedding, shot in 1940 and showing several shots of the wedding party, happy, excited and signing.
#DisHist #DeafHistory

britishpathe.com/video/deaf-and…
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The wedding took place at Beverley Minster, which was supposed to be the resting place of St. John, who was supposed to heal the sick and to give the power of speech back to the nonverbal and hearing to the deaf.
#DisHist #DeafHistory The color photo shows a sta...The color photo shows the s...
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This is crazy! 🙆🏽‍♂️🙌🏽 Like yesterday I had drafted my experience with a number of #Deaf students and was still asking if there was anything that is been done for them as a community of people in that category! N now this!?
Nigeria should accept the tech ohh
So I just sat in a BRT bus partly filled with Pupils from #Ikejajuniorhighschool Yesterday .
They all stood (standing) there were two woman acting up cos they were around them. Dyu know why? They were Deaf some of them Both D & D and they were all trying to make.....
Conversation the only best way they knew how to!- Gesticulation, facial expressions and sign language. Most of them smiling and exclamating as they communicated!
I was surprised at first when they boarded cos they were too silent for Secondary school pupils. #Solohtolz
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Around 3000 BCE in eastern #Europe, a Proto-Balto-Slavic #language started to diverge from #ProtoIndoEuropean.

The #Slavic branch of the #IndoEuropean #languages began about 2,000 years later when Proto-Slavic deviated from Proto-Balto-Slavic.

[Image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balt…] Source: The Indo-European L...
As the #Slavic-speaking area expanded during the first millennium CE (striped area on map), Proto-Slavic transitioned to Common Slavic. The #language underwent minor changes that occurred mostly uniformly across eastern #Europe, thereby maintaining mutual intelligibility. A map of eastern Europe sho...
Around the year 1000 CE #CommonSlavic began to split into the South, West, and East branches to which all modern #Slavic #languages belong.

Roughly 315m people speak a Slavic #language, mostly in Eastern #Europe (including the #Balkan peninsula), #CentralAsia, and #Siberia. A map of Europe highlightin...
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DAME DR. KATHLEEN TIMPSON OLLERENSHAW, 1912-2014. Dr. O grew up in Manchester, England. She became deaf at age 8. An inspiring headmistress at the Ladybank Montessori School nurtured her interest in mathematics. #deaf #deafpride #deafHOH #GWOM 1/7 Image
She credited her deafness with helping her find her passion so early, as mathematics is accessible to deaf and hearing alike. The headmistress gave her early training in rigor, insisting on "exactitude, formal proofs, and total accuracy at all times--with checks." She studied 2/7
maths at Somerville College in Oxford, completing her doctorate in 1945. She wrote five original mathematical papers before achieving her doctorate. She was married in 1939 to her childhood sweetheart, whose love she became certain of when he gave her his large, superior 3/7
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So I'm at a physics conference this week in Lecce, Italy. Some of you wonder how that works given that I'm Deaf and probably don't know Italian Sign Language. Well... 1/N #deaf #interpreters #asl #access #physics
In most cases, I can just request ASL interpreters (yes, American Sign Language interpreters) months in advance. Who pays for it? Good question. That's something I've fortunately been mostly kept out of the loop on, rather than the discussions that happen at the conference! 2/N
But so we get terps set up months in advance, great. They're ASL, because I've barely had the chance to pick up any other language and it's my secondary mode of communication. ASL terps are hard to find in non-English speaking countries... UK too! UK uses BSL primarily. 3/N
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Today is #NationalDogDay! Lets examine what roles our 4-legged friends have played in #DisHist!
Artistic representations of dogs accompanying #blind singers, beggars etc from across the world suggests that they have often worked and lived alongside #disabled handlers..1/ The blind man wears patched clothing and seems to be a beggar: he is led by a skinny dog with its ribs showing. The blind man appears to be holding a stick to guide him as well.A medieval color illustration from the Book of Hours shows a blind man receives sight from Christ while his dog looks on.
In this #earlymodern illustration of the Dance of Death, Death cuts the rope that links the blind man and his dog: “I cut you off from your guide.”
The blind man responds, saying, “I cannot take a step without my dog (hund).”
#DisHist #NationalDogDay..2/ The engraved illustration shows Death on the left as a skeleton, confronting a man with a hat and cloak, who appears to be a blind and is led by a dog. Death is using scissors to cut the rope used to lead the dog.
For more on #DisHist and good doggos in medieval illustrations, read @drkmurch's blog here:

kristamurchison.com/medieval-guide…

...3/
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Ardavan Guity & @jahochcam (with a pre-recorded intro) on ethics concerning language documentation of #signlanguages in #Deaf communities. #wfd2019 Image
A very interesting story here is Ardavan being involved in language documentation as an informant at first, but becoming more and more involved, gaining experience and skills along the way (by interaction, collaboration, sharing), ending up a researcher! #wfd2019
Involving the #Deaf community and individual participants is crucial. Communication, information, consent. This enriches the collaboration between researchers and informants and gives agency and empowerment to language users! #wfd2019
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@mesch_joo, @crathmann & @DLilloMartin presenting the aims and policies of the @SignLangLingSoc at #wfd2019.

Research on #signlanguages should:
- Promote and include #Deaf researchers
- Give back to the community (inform policy/lobby)
- Respect Deaf communities and diversity Image
There is tight collaboration with the WFD, who are sometimes better suited to lobby for #Deaf and #language rights to governments around the world (through national/regional associations)
#wfd2019
Q: There are hearing researching #signlanguages without knowing how to sign, what do you think about this?
A: Increase the num of Deaf researchers and support collaborations between Deaf and hearing. Hearing researchers encouraged to sign! [signs hearing @DLilloMartin] #wfd2019 Image
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3. Holocaust in Yemen caused by Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Senegal, Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Morocco, US, France, UK, Canada, Australia,Germany
#Yemen #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrime #Holocaust #YemenCantWait #YemenHolocaust #WorldHypocrisy
1. In this Thread, I present evidence that the Invasion in Yemen is a war crime, evidence from the countries involved in this invasion, evidence of the crimes mainly committed by 🇸🇦,🇦🇪,🇺🇸,🇬🇧&🇫🇷, proofs that a holocaust is occurring in Yemen
2. In this Thread, I present evidence that the Invasion in Yemen is a War Crime, evidence from the countries involved in this invasion, evidence of the crimes mainly committed by 🇸🇦,🇦🇪,🇺🇸,🇬🇧&🇫🇷,proofs that a holocaust is occurring in Yemen
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