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Title
Dealing with linguistic variation - age
Abstract/Description
This exercise describes what is expected from the instructor: including reviewing videos and selecting English text and the section of ASL text to be used; choosing benchmarks for discussion and analysis and identifying linguistic features; assigning users to groups; and optionally, creating a model interpretation of the ASL text.
This exercise was developed for the following course at John A. Logan College: ASL to English and Comparative Linguistics.

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Title
Communication Impact
Abstract/Description
This is a lecture about the struggles to gain communication rights between Deaf communities and governmental agencies. The speaker includes stories of the Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission, among others.