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Hi everybody, welcome back.
So today I'm going to discuss a topic
a few people have commented about. They said hmmm you know I want
to be invovled with Deaf people or with sign language
but I don't know what to do. You know maybe
you don't have an interest in being an interpreter. You know what other things can you do with
sign language? So I thought I'd give you a few ideas and
my opinion! Umm
first of all if you dont' want to become an interpreter you could become
a teacher. Umm now a teacher of the deaf
means that you're gonna have to be invovled with deaf people. It's not good enough
just to go to school and learn a little bit about deafness
and know sign language. That's not good enough!
A teacher of the deaf, if you're hearing, you really need to be
invovled and do the best you can to understand. Obviously it'd be best if the
teacher of the deaf could be deaf themselves, but if you're interested in teaching and
you are hearing then it's really really important that you learn as much as you can
and be involved as much as you can. Another option
with sign language is a dorm counselor.
A lot of times at Deaf schools
maybe... a lot of students live in the dorms on campus.
There might only be one Deaf school in the entire state.
So that means that a lot of the students have to travel really far and so they
live there during the week. So obviously that means overnight and into the
morning there has to be people there to take care of the students. They
used to be called I believe dorm parents, but now they're called dorm counselors.
So you could go to that. Make that your career. Another
possibility is to do VR which is
vocational rehabilitation. That means you could you know help
Deaf people or in general many different types of disabilities, but you can specialize
in um helping Deaf people find jobs, school
you know whatever. That's VR. You could be a social
worker which is a similar idea. You know if you are
umm know sign language, you're fluent then you could specialize working with Deaf people. You
know many people need assistance. Also you could become a linguist.
So if you really are interested in
sign langauge itself, but maybe you don't want to work with a bunch of people then
you could become a linguist. If you're interested in the language, and study that.
Umm also you could become a parent -
infant specialist. So meaning if a
parent finds out that their baby is Deaf of hard of hearing then you can go
to the hospital or to their home or whatever and work with them. Helping the parents
to understand the different options they have, you know how to educate the children
and things like that. You know how to work with a baby.
Umm really there's many other options, you know
not specifically work with Deaf. Maybe you want to be a doctor
or a psychologist or I mean I wrote down a list...
ummm you want to be a college professor
or ummmm I don't know. There's many
different fields... if you want to become a lawyer, you can
become whatever you want it to be. You can do that
plus know sign langauge. You know as a doctor you can explain things better
to your patients. You dont' need to have an interpreter there. You dont' have to wait for one.
You can just work with them, themselves, you know the patient. Umm whatever
it is, you can have sign language be invovled, Deaf culture,
Deaf people be invovled in your career. You know if you don't want the traditional interpreter
teacher, you know whatever. So really there's a lot of different things
that you can do that involved sign langauge and Deaf culture and Deaf
people so yeah. If you have any questions, let me know.
Maybe I can help you to figure out what you want to do with your life!
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