Friday, October 3, 2014

Pronews 7 Investigates: Teaching the Deaf in AISD

Pronews 7 Investigates: Teaching the Deaf in AISD: Members, of the deaf community say they’re worried about local deaf kids. This is because AISD uses Morphemic Sign System or MSS instead of American Sign Language for instructing the deaf.  AISDsays that they’ve been using MSS for decades in the classroom, and that it helps their students read and speak. Critics instead claim that students who graduate from our school system have trouble communicating with other deaf people, because they’re educated in a non-standard sign.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Deaf West Theatre: Flowers for Algernon

By Daniel Keyes
Adapted by David Rogers
Directed by Matthew McCray
Poignant, funny and thought-provoking, Flowers for Algernon is the story of Charlie Gordon, a willing subject of an extraordinary experiment, and the strange interweaving of his life with Algernon, a mouse whose intelligence has been increased threefold by a daring new procedure.


Now thru October 13: A $20 “back to school” special is being offered the first three weeks of performances for students with a valid ID.


Performances take place at:
Whitefire Theatre
13500 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA 91423

Running Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm & Sundays at 2pm

Metered parking or valet at the Boneyard Bistro 13539 Ventura Blvd 


SPECIAL EVENTS
•Audience Talk Backs:
Sunday, October 6
Talk back with David Serlin
, UCSD professor
more info or purchase
•Audience Talk Backs:
Thursday, October 17

Talk back with the Cast
purchase
•ASL Nights will be offered every Thursday in October - Arrive at 7:30pm for a workshop that teaches signs used in the play.



Friday, September 27, 2013

Deaf Teens in Southern California

Click the link below to read about a few Deaf teens in Southern California.  I happen to know Clarisia Duran and Elena Mayer:
Deaf Teens in SoCal


Wednesday, September 4, 2013