My Six-Year Hiatus
The last post on this website is dated 2018. That’s six long years ago. In addition to not posting here, I also [...]
The Importance of Storytelling to Address Deaf Disempowerment
Chapter One in Deaf Eyes on Interpreting (2018) edited by Thomas K. Holcomb and David H. Smith. View the ASL summary of this [...]
Deaf Schools: TRUE-BUSINESS Deaf?—20 Years Later
By Trudy Suggs Read the 1997 article or the 2007 article. Scroll down to see my thoughts about this year's results. (For a [...]
Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2) GalleryNearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)
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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)
By Trudy Suggs (Click here for my thoughts on this story in ASL and English). PART 2 (Read Part 1 here) Zeke [...]
Reflections on “Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students”
Video description: Trudy Suggs, a white woman with brown shoulder-length hair, is wearing a black cardigan over a black shirt with green and white dots. [...]
Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)
Illinois School for the Deaf Main Building (Courtesy of 1969 Illinois Advance) By Trudy Suggs PART 1 (Click here for Part 2) It [...]
Giving Credit Where It Wasn’t Due
Video description: Trudy, a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair, is wearing a deep royal blue sweater. She is seated in the corner with [...]
Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world
(Reposted from my Facebook page, February 13, 2016) My (deaf) daughters and I went out for dinner, and my four-year-old asked me why it [...]
Deaf Life Magazine Person of the Month
How awesome. At the risk of tooting my own horn (does it make a difference if I don't hear the horn?), I learned that [...]
The Power of the Written Word
My oldest, six years old, has started to understand how powerful the written word can be. I’ve been marveling at her acquisition of English [...]