CODA Brothers Deaf Club

[@brownmullins]

I love the vocals with your signing. Perfect chemistry and really made it fun to learn. I'm from Ohio and most are Oral and use sign as needed.

[@win4777]

I cannot believe you just mentioned what you mentioned! I'm a CODA from New Jersey. I just got off the phone with someone from DHS asking if there are any Coda groups deaf clubs anyting I'm desperate!everyday I ask God please God let me run into a Deaf person so I could sign! They say being Deaf is a very lonely world... being a coda is a very lonely as well! If it weren't for you Brothers God only knows where I would be today! I can identify so much with you guys! I grow up in similar situations. I grew up throwing objects at my mom and dad to get their attention...like when I ran out of toilet paper I had to take the empty roll and swing it out the bathroom door...it hit her on the shoulder! Like I've said there's no communities where I live and I have such a strong desire and such a strong passion... For the deaf community! I don't want to lose my culture... I practice everyday with my sign language so I don't lose it. I would love for you to get back to me... one of you guys! There's a bit more to my story. Thank you.... you guys are hilarious!! And yes, I have used my deaf card!

[@TheNarcoticMonkey]

Enjoy! :) www.coda-international.org/ www.deafnjad.org/ www.njsoupkitchen.org/program.htm?ZOPPI-Deaf-Camp-8 njdeafnews.com/ www.easterseals.com/nj/our-programs/camping-recreation/camp-merry-heart.html

[@win4777]

@@TheNarcoticMonkey thank you so much for that information that was very sweet of you. But it really doesn't help me that much....I knew about them I'm trying to find a community that's close to me I'm from New Jersey. Are you a coda?

[@kiamarie8829]

I can’t imagine my time in the interpreter training program without going to deaf events. Becoming a part of the community is so important to being an interpreter. It was hard at first in ASL 1 when all you know how to say is “Your favorite color what?” But I think forcing myself into higher level conversation is what helped me learn faster, and more. My ITP also has an iASL club that hosts a free holiday dinner for the Deaf community every year thanking them for accepting our students into their world. “Teaching ASL without the Deaf community is like learning to swim with no water”

[@InTeCredo]

Sad but very true! Thanks for the wonderful memories! Growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was one of the best things for the deaf people with film nights, game nights, and so forth. The teenagers, including me, learnt lot of gems from the older deaf adults about what it is like to be deaf and how to deal with hearing world in effective and positive ways. Not to mention having lot of support systems that we could rely on if we needed.

[@pbelleau]

Agree with you.....same like in Canada. Don't be surprised.

[@realmofthemisunderstood166]

I’m really sorry but I’m hearing and I absolutely love going to deaf events to help me learn. I’ve finally found my ASL classes and I’m going in a few months but to keep me occupied I go to deaf events and continue to learn and have the absolute time of my life. I don’t know about the ones you guys go to, maybe the ones in California are just different, but it’s a very nice environment and almost always has a decent amount of deaf people. I have made so many friends whom I would not trade the world for.

[@Deaftractor]

You post year ago. Ok shreveport, Louisiana used has deaf club. They shutdown and sell everything during about 10 yrs ago. We was not enough membership of deaf clubs. I was membership deaf club I has to keep up maintainer ounce a week hard to keep up due cost risen living. Where young deaf pp go?? Just gone. Public school not allow deaf stranger visit deaf student at public school that cause deaf student not know where or event deaf went. Yep it very sad. Due risen cost and SSI limited income. Now deaf black live matter might hope will help to get back tougher.

[@suzannehedderly1331]

Yay!!!! A video! As always, so good!

[@acorneroftheinternet4179]

My school actually just started a once a week ASL club, and that's how i found you! yah, most members are white women (and I'm no exception) but it's actually only a dozen or so active members. I am really happy its there now, though, i'd been trying to learn online and via books on how to sign, and an actual club is soo much better!

[@alyssa8984]

Totally understand you want your own place to sign, but as the only way us students will learn is be practicing and going to events with the Deaf. Plus our schools require the hours.. not saying it’s fun or fair for people who just want to sign, but wish there were just more Deaf events happening!

[@ScottDeden]

Hey CODA brothers, I’m oral deaf but I love to sign all the time! There is a problem in Denver too. So many students enter the deaf events and try to learn sign language which is awesome. I think the school should stop using their class on deaf events. And let the student starve for their passion to learn ASL. I guess the culture has evolved into something else. 😳