VBS 2010: Ellis
But the highlight of our VBS experience this year was Ellis had his first personal ASL interpreter that the church hired for him. It was like night and day for him. He was excited, engaged.
This picture makes me nearly choke up. He's raising his hand!! He understood what was going on, understood the question, and wanted to offer the answer. One day, he stood in front of everyone and volunteered to recite his verse in ASL. It was amazing.
They also took the opportunity to build awareness of deafness and ASL for the whole group. Here is his interpreter and him teaching everyone their alphabet:
which David put to use with his name
Yea, so I basically cried.
And it really confirmed to me that we need to get him interpreter some how, some way for church. He does use his CI, but he takes in information with ASL, his native language.
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Can you warn a girl first
Can you warn a girl first that your entry's gonna make a mom cry? That's awesome, so awesome.
That's so awesome! As a Deaf
That's so awesome! As a Deaf person who has gone through public school and other activities with and without an interpreter, the access to information is like you said, night and day. It's really important for all parents of Deaf children to understand that there is no technology in the world that will provide 100% access like an ASL/English interpreter does. Kudos to you and Chris for making it happen for E! =D
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