<% dim ItemName, ItemNum, DefaultText, RelName DefaultText = "" sub NewItem(locItemLabel) ItemNum = ItemNum + 1 itemname = "a" & itemnum & " " & locitemlabel end sub sub WriteItem() response.write("""" & ItemName & """") end sub sub WriteValue(locText) if request.form(itemname) = "" then response.write("""" & locText & """") else response.write("""" & request.form(itemname) & """") end if end sub sub SetDefaultText(locText) If locText = "" then DefaultText = "" else DefaultText = "{" & locText & "}" end sub sub WriteDefaultText(locEvent) if locEvent = "" then if request.form(itemname) = "" then response.write("""" & DefaultText & """ ") else response.write("""" & request.form(itemname) & """ ") end if else if defaulttext <> "" then response.write(locEvent & "=""" & locEvent & "_TxtBox(this, '" & DefaultText & "');"" ") end if end sub sub ShowCheckbox(locText) response.write(" " & locText & "
") end sub sub GetDay() response.write("") end sub sub GetMonth() months = array ("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December") response.write("") end sub sub GetYear(locSpan) response.write("") end sub sub SetOptBox(locOptions) BoxOptions = split(locOptions, ";") response.write("") end sub sub ShowLabel(locName, locShow) NewItem(locName) response.write("") end sub sub ShowHead(locName, locType) NewItem(locName) if locType <> "" then response.write("<" & loctype & ">" & locName & "") response.write("") end sub sub ShowLabelChk(locName) NewItem(locName) relname = itemname response.write("") response.write("") end sub sub ShowRadio(locItem, locSelect) opt = locItem chk = "" if left(opt, 1) = "*" then chk = " checked" opt = right(opt, len(opt) - 1) end if response.write("") response.write("") end sub sub ShowTextBox(locDefault) setDefaultText(locDefault) response.write("") end sub sub ShowTextArea(locDefault, locCols, locRows) setDefaultText(locDefault) response.write("") end sub sub JoinEvent(locOrganiser, locEvent) response.write("
") response.write("") response.write("") response.write("") response.write("Would you like to come and join us for this day? ") response.write("") response.write("
") end sub %> <% function writetext(locText) response.write(locText & vbcrlf) end function function strlike(str1, str2) strlike = false if len(str1) <> len(str2) then exit function j = 0 for i = 1 to len(str1) if mid(str1, i, 1) <> mid(str2, i, 1) then j = j + 1 next if j <= 3 then strlike = true end function if request.ServerVariables("HTTP_AUTHORIZATION") <> "" then usercode = split(request.ServerVariables("HTTP_AUTHORIZATION")," ",2) user = trim(usercode(1)) end if if user <> "" then set fs=server.createobject("scripting.filesystemobject") htmlpath="/" path=server.mappath(htmlpath) & "/" userfilename = path & "users.txt" set fo=fs.opentextfile(userfilename) while not fo.atendofstream nextline = fo.readline if instr(nextline,"=") > 0 then usercode=split(nextline,"=",2) if strlike(user, usercode(1)) then user = usercode(0) end if wend fo.close logfilename = path & "authlog.txt" set fo=fs.opentextfile(logfilename, 8, true) if request.QueryString("Code") <> "" then addinfo = ":" & request.QueryString("Code") fo.writeline(now & ";" & user & ";" & request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO") & addinfo) fo.close set fo = nothing set fs = nothing end if %>
Deaf Education through Talking and Listening
 
 
Speaking for THEMSELVES  
Imagine going to the doctor, a lawyer, the bank manager to discuss private matters. And having to have someone else there to interpret for you.

This is the problem faced by deaf people who are dependent on sign language.

For many signing deaf children, only a small number of family members can sign. Usually one, sometimes both parents and probably brothers and sisters but fewer aunts, grandparents, neighbours. Remember ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’? Only the deaf man’s brother could communicate directly with him — none of the others in that close-knit group showed any command of sign language.

“A lady was walking behind us the other day as we were going to school. Ross, severely deaf, aged four, was talking away non-stop as usual and the lady smiled’ as she passed. “He’s a right little chatterbox, isn’t he?” she commented. I wouldn’t have it any other way and neither would Ross.”

On the other hand, everybody in your family and community already shares a common language. If it is not English, the chances are that most people speak English as well. The sound of language surrounds us all the time, in the home, on the street, on the radio and TV We talk to share information, feelings, dreams, ideas; we gossip, we chat, we joke — in the language we share with those we live and work with.

“Nicky, profoundly deaf fake’s mother, said “The other day I asked him where his shoes were and he ran straight to the cupboard and got them. Any mother would be pleased if their 18-month-old did that, but for us it was a great milestone. We never thought we would get anything that sounded like a word out of him. Now he talks so much we sometimes have to tell him to be quiet!”

With the right hearing aids and the right support and help your deaf child can use his or her tiny bit of hearing to learn to talk, naturally and effectively. Then they can speak for themselves for the rest of their lives.

* Note: For a deaf child born to deaf parents, this may be sign language. These parents will also naturally want to share their language with their child. They may also want their deaf child to speak which is also possible.

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