Travelling as a Family Using Sign Language

[@ktja18]

i really feel for Carter, as a Teacher here in NZ my dream would be to have a school where NZSL and english are truly bi cultral for both deaf and hearing children to learn together.

[@pinkmagicali]

ktja18 I don’t know why we aren’t taught it as kids at school. Sign is so beautifully expressive. I wish I’d been taught it as a kid (it would have been Auslan in my case). I love it.

[@daniaguinaga1754]

I love this family! Bring on part 3!

[@emilynicole.2267]

I have deaf family members and this warms my heart. I'm pretty fluent. I'm teaching my children.

[@triciastewart8]

I love that mark berry is so involved I watched his family as well so wonderful REALLY warms my hear

[@passiert1027]

Loved this doc! Really, I love anything to do with sign language around the world. I'm endlessly fascinated. 😁

[@nomam7358]

M2 interesting 😊

[@janetyoung4922]

Such a lovely and very educational documentary. Thank you for sharing!

[@Bettinasisrg]

She had a Stranger Things t-shirt! She's awesome! What a beautiful family.

[@davidcolombier5673]

Great family. I was a special education teacher in Los Angeles. I learnt American sign language in Los Angeles, French sign language in Paris. I was born here and spent 16 years of my life here, and I went to Israel for 29 years. I learnt Hebrew, and of course, Israeli sign language.I also was a special education teacher in Israel as well as volunteered at the "house of Hele, Keller" in Tel-Aviv. Anyway, great family!8

[@aussiebird]

So happy to see you’ve all made it to Paris - family memories forever

[@Tintenfischchen]

Other CODAs here..? I'm hearing with a Deaf mother and a hearing father and my daughter is three and has a hard of hearing father. I'm very proud of being a CODA and so is my daughter. Not trying to brag, but I' ve rarely seen such a confident three year old, switching between the hearing and the Deaf community like a natural and being accepted and loved in both worlds. "Being different is great because it means you can learn from each other", she said recently - signing and speaking at the same time, both on a level that you expect to see from a child who's already in school. She's starting kindergarten this year - a trilingual one including hearing, hard of hearing and Deaf kids from all kinds of different backgrounds, including different races and first spoken languages (South Africa has 11 national languages, so that's normal to us). They'll ALL learn to use SA sign language, English and Afrikaans. English will be (mostly) new for our daughter, but I don't worry about it at all because she already has such advanced communication skills. I started this kindergarten with two other CODA family parents a year ago and the first year was already so successful that we had to expand from one group of kids (10 kids in a group at max) to three groups of kids, 27 students total, 10 hearing, 13 Deaf and 5 hard of hearing. Half of the hearing kids don't even have Deaf parents. Some have Deaf relatives or friends, but not all of them. Having hearing parents see the value of what we're doing and trusting us with their kids... it's more than I ever hoped for. It's like my dream is coming true, but it's even better than the dream. CODA and Deaf Pride for Life!!! 💪🏼💕

[@blackis90pcofmywardrobe]

Awesome documentary! The editing style was very confusing and jarring for me though as a Deaf person, as I didn't know half the time where to look as there were often two boxes on screen with things happening in them and someone signing in another, and it would often take me more than a few seconds to find the box where the person was signing or talking. The smallness of the boxes made it more difficult to see the signing as I prefer it to be full screen when a Deaf person or group of Deaf people are the focus of the video, and not in the case of signing over someone voicing like some news stations do.

[@pinkmagicali]

As far as I can tell it alternates from left to right with each speaker unless they are having two people chat. (Ok almost at the end, maybe not lol. Now it just seems random.) So interesting. I’m not sure how I missed it but I didn’t know there was international sign so I have to google that now.

[@mashae2382]

@@pinkmagicali There is an international sign language but it’s not a language that people grow up using. I believe it is used mostly at international conferences. Similar in idea to Esperanto.

[@juniper617]

It’s captioned as well.

[@mumr4268]

Thank you for sharing...learned a lot@

[@flua1508]

Wonderful family, great documentary - thank you very much from Germany!

[@pinkmagicali]

Sitting here sighing at the amazing fluency. I’ve been trying to learn Auslan for years but I’m dreadful at languages so I still sux. I find the grammar challenging because there’s little documentation that’s I’ve found. I can find info on single signs but not word order. I love it when I see people sign in public but of course don’t want to stare so a vid like this where I can watch without being rude is lovely. If anyone has any good links please reply with them!

[@amied5432]

Pink Magic Ali hopefully you get a notification I’ve replied. If you are in Aus then check out The Auslan Company on Facebook, they are based in Melbourne however I believe the cover other states now as well, Darren and his team are fantastic!

[@nasob6997]

Such a cool documentary!! Hope theres part 3 next week! Zoe should set up a youtube account and teach hearing people about deaf culture and vocabulary!

[@pinkmagicali]

Naissy S I would totally subscribe! I wish I could learn Auslan more. I’ve done the intro course here twice but found the next level was too fast for me to learn. I think I’d be better with an international tutor or video lessons as well as classes so I can go over things several times.

[@jonihofmann3318]

Very informational. Thank you!

[@mikecampos5123]

This is an amazing video ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@01PIKERI]

Awesome, documentary and more

[@nomam7358]

I lik such videos. Interesting 😊🤔

[@patriciaishasebastian9890]

I want to favorite Italy Paris I wish future the Focus!❤

[@ruthbaptiste8056]

Lovely family

[@amied5432]

I would love to know if Zoe got into the program overseas, if anyone could help that would be great thank you

[@giannagilbert409]

Love that stranger things shirt! I need it

[@CasperV1982]

NZSL is similar to Auslan (Australian sign language)

[@meren007nz]

Great fico. Just a note though, the subtitles are out of sync the last 5-10 min of the video. Old adjust them

[@emilywong4064]

Is the United States involved with this organization.? We use American Sign Language ASL .I enjoyed this video.

[@lynnfarmokie7553]

What's WFD?

[@maureenkidd6629]

How do deaf people enjoy music. Just feeling vibrations wouldn't be the same, or does it feel all the way through the body?

[@muls9571]

I think it's mostly the beat they can feel

[@junbh2]

A lot of it is that there's a huge range of levels of deafness, and most people have nonuniform hearing loss over different frequencies. Usually people would be considered deaf if their hearing is too poor to hear speech. But speech is relatively high frequency and has lots of quiet sounds (esp. many consonants). So it's very possible to be completely unable to hear speech but to be able to hear very loud music, or e.g. to hear all the lower frequency parts of a piece of music. Also vibrations as well.

[@crystalnewman8244]

Poor little kid... didn't get to really enjoy and appreciate it... He's to young

[@janetyoung4922]

Yes, but the parents are amazing to bring him along! Bless them! When Carter grows up, he will be able to watch the videos and think wow I took part in WFD Congress when I was three years old!!!

[@nomam7358]

Bridget s beautiful ❤️

[@nomam7358]

The Stranger Things Tee😘❤️stylish

[@erickabermudez3416]

Hola yo me llamo ericka bermudez jara ,me gustaria mucho sormunda,pero aprender mucho ,pero fui una escuela especial para jovenes

[@erickabermudez3416]

Por favor conestar soy ericka bermudez jara vive puebla

[@bridgethamilton6057]

Why did this family reject the hearing aids that would allow Carter to hear?

[@Tintenfischchen]

Because a cochlear implant doesn't just make a deaf person hearing. It's very different and you actually have to learn how to use it to your advantage which can be a very difficult process. For some people, it just doesn't work out at all. The parents put all their hope and their child's ressources into this and when it doesn't work for them, it can be devastating and feel like those precious young years have been wasted, putting all their energy into this thing that turnt out to be not beneficial for the kid at all. They could have used all that time for learning sign language really well, for getting them involved in the Deaf community to strengthen their identity as a Deaf person, for other activities that are a lot more fun and rewarding for a child than learning how to use this device. That's why some families decide to not get the implant for their deaf kid. Many Deaf families don't look at being deaf as a disability, but as a unique opportunity to be involved in the Deaf community as well as the hearing world. It really depends on how you look at it. An implant could also make the kid feel like there's something wrong with them, that they're missing out on something important if they don't learn how to hear with the implant, that it's not okay that they're different from others. It also sends the message that it's up to the deaf people to figure out a way to communicate with their hearing friends, teachers etc., while it should be both parties working on it and meeting halfway, basically. Both deaf and hearing people can get a lot out of learning to sign and learning about Deaf culture - which most people don't even know exists. It really is a different culture. Learning about it can be so beneficial for everyone - hearing or not. I have a Deaf mother and a hearing father and I grew up bilingual - learning sign language alongside my family's other mother tongue Afrikaans... and I'm very proud of being a part of both worlds - Deaf and hearing. I really had a unique opportunity and I wouldn't change that even if I could. Sure, having a hearing mom would have been easier for me in some ways, but the positive definitely outweighs the negative for me. I'm proud to be a CODA (child of a Deaf adult) and I'm also very excited about raising my own daughter, who is three and hearing with a deaf dad, to be a strong individual who is accepted in the hearing world as well as in the Deaf community. Another mighty CODA. The world definitely needs more people like her. If we have another child, there's a chance of them being born deaf - it was the same with our first one, of course. Some people say we shouldnt 'take the risk', but there is no risk to us. It could be a boy or a girl - both would be awesome but would also bring different challenges with them. It could be Deaf or hearing - both awesome although it would bring different challenges with it. I really am open for both outcomes. My experience has shown me that being deaf is so so SO much more than a disability. It's a chance to learn and grow and experience awesome things most hearing kids have never even heard about. Deaf culture is absolutely amazing and I wouldn't be who I am today without it. It's an important part of my identity and I'm very proud of that.

[@icturner23]

When I was in Paris earlier this year I went to a vegan restaurant that turned out to be completely deaf.

[@muls9571]

How does that work? I'm curious to know.

[@icturner23]

Muls 95 When I say it was completely deaf, I mean the staff all were. The main issue was that the only English menu was outside and it was difficult to communicate to them that the reason I didn’t want to follow them out to it was not that I didn’t understand but that it was very, very cold (it was January) and so I didn’t want to stand outside. It all worked out fine though.

[@alina1548]

iam deaf as well I have two Cochlear implants

[@caerathornton]

Mark Grew up!

[@Grabfma040508]

I hadn’t thought about the impact of mask wearing in the hearing impaired community until watching this video . What a terrible disservice we are doing to them . I am so sorry for lip readers . Praying that this atrocity will end . 🙏🏻

[@yeahsuredude7082]

I wish they were more common, but they make masks with a clear vinyl section in front of the mouth specifically for lipreading! they are so helpful I wish more people used them