Hey Jeanne, How is school?

So far so good. A lot more signing which is wonderful. I can definitely use the practice. "Voices off" used to scare me in my classes but now I welcome the opportunities to practice my signing. We do voice though. Right now we are working on Auditory Memory. The exercises to help us with this are kind of fun. Someone reads a list of words and we have to repeat the words immediately after hearing them. Sure it gets very loud in the classroom with 10 people all talking the same time but that is part of the process. The other exercise is the same idea but using phrases instead of just a list of words. So far so good. I think my work at the Relay center is helping with this process. I think in a few weeks we start throwing Sign Language into the mix. Fun!

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  1. L*I*S*A9:26 AM, January 20, 2007

    Ooooo, that does sound fun! I would imagine it gets very loud. I remember my grandma and grandpa would go to the Deaf Club and there ALL the deaf people would use their voices. At that time, it was the only place they felt comfortable enough doing so.

    Talk about loud!!

    Try being at a deaf bingo game (they called it Dingo!)...LOUDNESS FOR SURE!

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