Sign Language Message from Space

Tracy Caldwell Dyson recorded a signed message from space.The accompanying article states that ASL is the "fourth most commonly used language in the United States." Regretfully, Astronaut Dyson uses acombination of ASL phrases and English grammar.

However her message to the Deaf childred she recorded it for is priceless and one many in our community support: Deaf people can do anything but hear.

To learn more about the space station on which Astronaut Caldwell is serving, go to http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

I Love this book!

This is the story of a child with deaf grandparents, raised at the Lexington School for the Deaf where her parents lived and worked on site. She has unique insights as one of those "neither culture" people - raised in a deaf friendly environment but born hearing. She relates stories of becoming an interpreter, the frustrations of dating a Deaf man, and shares stories not her own as she follows the lives of two students from the school.

I hope you learn as much as I did about what I call the "tweener" culture of the 70's and beyond.