I love your quote “Well, for your information, I consider myself a very independent person. And, I know ASL since birth, and look who I am now.”

I feel the same as I ‘m proud to be me and I am Deaf. AGB said the parents ‘ decision then what are they doing at first – Bull! They would not be there actively recurited hearing parents against nature of being Deaf and ASL.

Again, Thank you for have Ruthie for an interview, keep it up!

Jehanne, a Joan of ARC!!! thank you so much for have an interview with me and put it in your vlog. thank you all for compliments about our interview and all of your spirits are with all of us, AFA always- if you couldn’t make it- we know you are there with us because we have our passion to change for our community to stop audism and it would ripples in each of your community areas. We believe that you will do something in your community as our spirits will be with you all to stand for AFA and stop audism.

Richard- thank you for your comments and how could sign language be depend which it is a natural language that express from our brain and heart. It doesn’t matter how Deaf oral are well compare to sign language, we all are people of eyes and need to be respectfully equality. The oral method is invented by hearing people to FIX us to be like them. We, Deaf people do not need to be fix or force to have a training to learn to be hearing. We, Deaf people do have a common sense how to have a communicate and educate to hearing people to communicate with us. It is time to change for hearing people to open their mind to learn about our natural language and culture- Deaf people exists in the earth that use a sign language as a gifts for all of us in the world. Universe sends you a good karma.

Jean, reply your question:
Re: during the meeting with the AGB’s– I didn’t mentioned specifically about in the year 2000 has highly recommended that hearing parents learn sign languages, however I did mentioned that there have many researchers and educators prove that ASL is success for all babies (hearing/Deaf) and grows in children’s intelligent, social life, communication, and souls. I poked at Jehanne in the meeting to see how she is- she is only 12 years old, using ASL, have an intelligent, social skills, comprehension, even have a heart, brain, and soul therefore she is not need to be fixed. AG Bell members in the meeting denied and swing to give a comment that it is parent’s choices.

Re: How did the AGB folks react- Jehanne did not wear that shirt in the meeting- we had a meeting on Thursday and Jehanne wore that shirt during the rally on Friday. The AG Bell member did not come out the AG BELL building only during a lunch hour. Smiles- I wish to know what AGB folks would react when they saw Jehanne’s shirt that day.

Misha, thanks and glad you went to AFA rally. So sorry that you were sick and hope to recover better soon!

Your mom must be proud of being Jehanne can doing well with your own research of AFA.

By the way, I never know about Joan of Arc named Jehanne. Thanks,again!

FYI I spent the weekend in Scottsdale AZ and I did a speech on future deaf generations at a luncheon there. 2 weeks ago I did 5 speeches at different high schools on the same subject and tonight I’m doing a speech in Westminster audiological dinner. Dont be telling everyone I sit home do nothing. I can get a lot more done in the lecture circuit than what you rage paraders can do barking up the wrong trees.

Since most of you at the AFA rally were simply DVTV rage paraders, no wonder you got that kind of a denunciation from AG Bell.

Maybe if you had a different face, different approach, and use different people, maybe you’d get a different, maybe better, response from AG Bell.

I would like to ask you about your name, Jehanne. It’s really a pretty name, where is it from? How did your parents find your name? I love your name!

thank u for doing this and posting it up for others to see

Ruthie – don’t stop

peace

Patti

Jean-Let’s wait for Ruthie to reply you, then. Thanks for commenting my vlog by the way!

DeafPixie- Haha, I will TRY to beat Katie Courier but I won’t get my hopes high . Yes, everything you say, is true and I agree! *i was named after Joan of Arc, her real original name was Jehanne and thanks*

-Jehanne

I applauded InsaneMisha about RR’s comment seem not make a sense and love to twist. I think you did right thing to say about his comment seem odd.

I learn something what Rutie Jordon’s meaning serious with deaf service to be strong deaf community from AGBell. Thank you for sharing with Ruthie and your interviewer is alot of meaning to you. You are so great interview deaf related. And Hope to beat to Katie Courier, as much famous reporter. Not likely Barbara Walter.

During the meeting with the AGB’s Murphy, Graham, and the others last Thursday, did you remind them that the study conducted by the NIH which was published in LIFE Magazine in 1990/91 and reported by the CBS TV in 2000 has highly recommended that hearing parents learn home signs to which both hearing and deaf babies would easily channel visually — the study that shows that hearing babies have more frustrations with hearing parents for not understanding their gesturesI would love to hear theiy would have said whereas deaf babies have no frustrations with their signing parents.

Or how did the AGB folks react when they saw Jehanne’s shirt depicting hearing babies signing happily while deaf babies crying unhappily with their hands being cuffed?