Rally Signs for Indiana DBC
Here you will see different signs used at the Indiana Deaf Bilingual Coalition Rally this weekend.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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I love how you said them. We need to have these quotations or slogans print on t shirts and wear them often Because T shirts can be seen by a lot more people in many other places.
Please let me know if I can be of a help because I have silkscreening equipment to print T shirts for deaf community's benefit only.
Merle
In different states should copy your signs... We all put those outside on a tree... Sign on a stick and put in Ground... Something to make them look at it everyday.
You guys did great.. Make more signs.....
Champs!!! Very positive! Thought-provoking!
I'm impressed. Glad you guys went with postitive slogans. Good Luck this weekend!
It gives me a million of smiles!
I am with Jay: Champs!! Very positive! Thought-provoking!
I will be always thinking of you and let us know. Be reminder: bring the digital camera!
Thanks to Carl for the brillant ideas!
Expanding! Stonger and healthier! Just magical! Everything I saw here is energetic at some level or another. You guys are GREAT!
Your job is very extraordinary to produce the signs in positive way. I hope the words will positively spread out to the public that we are the human beings like them as the learning of language methods in the same approaches but we learn different in way, indeed. Be PEACE!
Nick Vera
Beautiful!! (thumbs up) What a brilliant ideas! Very highly positive quotations. :-)
WOW! You are our inspiration!! You have set higher standards for DBC!! Thank you Deaf Indianapolis for doing this for our DEAF CHILDREN!!! Will be thinking of you this weekend - make sure to make video, vlogs and blogs!
Thumbs up!!
Beautiful positive slogans!
They will inspire people more.
Thank you for doing a great job with these signs! :)
I love your signs. I encourage you to laminate them if you can so they can be used again and again. Keep it up and we're behind you all the way!
Please replace the statement on sign
"Deafness is beautiful"
the correct is
"Deafhood is beautiful"
Love the positive signs! Please keep in the mind to preserve those signs for the future generations!
The signs are nice and cool!! Have them laminated for more use in future. I will be thinking of you all this coming weekend. I will keep eye on updates afterwards. GOOD LUCK!
THUMBS UP!!
CJ
http://blog.deafread.com/agbellxinfo/2007/11/28/a-comment-from-hearing-parent/
A very beautiful story shared by hearing parents of the deaf baby...I believe that the story is worth to make copies for people.
ASL is healthier for Deaf people to use communcation...
Pah! We're finally getting it right! The slogans on the signs were perfect. Positive, uplifting, clear, to the point and inspirational!
Who made them? Who gets the credit? BRAVO!
~ LaRonda
Cool signs!
Great and positive statements! I like one commenter's idea about t-shirts. Maybe those t-shirts can be available for sale to raise fund. Then we can buy those shirts and continue to spread out the awareness all over!
THUMBS UP!
A beauto!
Can you make a poster as follows:
"Signing Deaf people pay tax every
year faithfullyu!"
Way to go with the signs!! It is amazing to see the pace of progress DBC has made within six months seeing how much refined we are with slogans, fliers, T-shirts, etc. The campaigns that DBC has been participating locally definitely allow us to be much more prepared at the larger AG Bell convention in Milwaukee! Thank goodness for v/blogging and DeafRead and to connect us people like you who are in the business of raising the level of social awareness.
I am really excited for you Indiana participants to send out a vital message, that is, for Deaf babies to have 100 percent of language accessibility which is, of course, ASL.
HIGH HANDS WAVES! BRAVO! KEEP UP STRONG DEAF STAND!
Wow! Very positive Rally Signs! I wonder if Indiana DBC did contact the local newspapers and local TV news to meet you all guys at the Rally and take photos, too???
CHAMP!!! I want one for my license plate frame! Plus I'd buy Tshirt too! Until then, could you copy the phrases & we print them to display? Good luck with the positive rally this weekend!!!
John, this is wonderful what you and the Indiana Deaf community are doing. It is important to get the word out! I hope that every TV station, talk shows, etc. are contacted by the Deaf community to come and televise this. You also need to get the word out via media! Get the hearing parents (such as the post from "comment from hearing parent") to write their story and publish them in magazines, etc. Use every avenue in the media...that's how you'll all be "heard". Good luck...waving hands.
THANKS JOHN for your great support of deaf babies!!! They definitely need our voices!
Wonder if you have contact the local TV news and arrange obtaining an interpreter ready. It would benefit for parents to communicate with deaf supporters if they have any questions through interpreters available and supporters can share their experience to reporter through interpreter.
Can you take video camera or photo and share with us?
great job with signs!!!
Beautiful provoking!
Why don't you guys to save the signs and banners in order to prepare for the "National" Deaf Bilingual Coalition to use for the AG Bell's biggest Convention this Summer of 2008?
Please don't throw them away!
White Ghost
Hey ABC,
Wow! You are very good job and very positive. I hope that News CNN there.
Thumbs up!!!!!!! ;-)
Bobby Lopez
Wow! Beautiful signs you have there!!
I felt as if I was thumbing a picture book and thought maybe you can make copies of each signs and put it together in a booklet and pass it out to people. The cover of the booklet should say, "Deaf Babies: The Best Way to Communicate With Them?" and then they can go through the booklet and see that ASL is the language to use.
Also be prepared to come with knowledge about ASL because you never know if a reporter may come and interview you all and would want some factual evidence. We need to convince that hearing parents can learn ASL but this is a toughie question because so many hearing parents either refuse or cannot learn ASL. How can we get hearing parents to learn ASL? DO we have strategies, ideas, plans in place to develop public relations so that hearing parents can learn ASL because often times it is a hard language to learn overnight and it is easy for some parents just to give up and not learn how to master it. This is one of the biggest dilemna we have to face and to solve this. Once we solve this, then we can help hearing parents overcome this obstacle. Then there may not be a need for oral education or other methods of communication.
Michele
This sounds like a great idea!! We are disappointed that we found out about this rally at the last minute. We can't make it. Will there be more rallies like this in the future in other Indiana cities? Thanks!
Hi all, Merle suggested to make shirts of the slogans from the posters for the rally. I thought great idea. It was too short notice to make 'really good and nice' shirts. So on my way to the rally, I stoped at Wal-mart and picked up a bag of mens t-shirts. I had a really nice deaf lady (I am sooo sorry but I forgot her name) that made the sign that had the manual sign letters for the phrase 'got ASL'? I loved that one along with many of the other signs. Anyway, I asked her to help me if she would and draw the same 'got ASL'? on a shirt for me. I also thought my boys (who are hearing, know ASL, and would be attending the event) would like a shirt. So I asked her if she would help me make shirts for them. She was super nice and made a shirt for me and helped with the boys shirts. I also helped. While we were making the shirts one of the people in the Hear Indiana meetings asked if we were selling them. I said well not really we were just making them for ourselves and my boys etc but I have more shirts and we could make one for her, but it would be nice if she would give just a few dollars to pay for the shirt. She did and gave a bit extra because we did the work. The lady who was helping to make the shirts said she would donate the money to DBC.
So thanks for the great idea. Our shirts are not all that professional but still fun. We just had white shirt and used sharpie markers to draw on the shirts. We had the hand sign for "I love you" on the front of the shirt and the 'got asl' on the back. When I showed them to the boys they were super excited and loved them. I can post pictures of us making the shirts and of pictures of the boys and I wearing our shirts later. I will try to post them here and/or my blog at
http://isleepwhenican.blogspot.com/
and/or my website at
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ghuff/
But it will have to wait for a couple of weeks I am super busy with classes this week and next.
Side note, I would love a 'professional' quality shirt with the ASL hand sign for 'I love you' on it. If you know of such a shirt please let me know.
Gail Marie
isleepwhenican@yahoo.com
Anonymous said
I hope that every TV station, talk shows, etc. are contacted by the Deaf community to come and televise this. You also need to get the word out via media!
Also others suggested it.
I just learned about the even kinda late notice but I agreed it would be a good idea.
I then called the local TV station, there is only one and told them about the event I called on Fri and talked to a few people and then again on Sat. I also e-mailed them the info and sent them a press releas and a few web links etc. They said maybe they would. I was bummed because they never did make it, at least to my knowledge. I also sent e-mails to the local city newspaper. I also thought about sending the info to the Purdue campus newspaper but did not have time to do so. The local paper as of yet has not replied.
Hi,
Great posters! I wonder if this one will do:
There is no wrong language. All languages are right. Therefore it's right for Deaf babies to use ASL.
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