| SignWriting List Archive 1 October 1997 - May 1998 |
February 20, 1998
MESSAGE TO THE SIGNWRITING EMAIL LIST
SUBJECT: Help In Research
Dear List Members:
Someone on our list wrote privately to me and asked if Cecelia
Smith is Deaf? Cecelia asked me to post this message in response...
From: Cecelia40@aol.com
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:09:18 EST
To: DAC@SignWriting.org
Subject: Re: hi cecelia
Hello;
Sorry.... I guess I should have told a little bit about myself.
I am hearing, a certified interpreter, and first year graduate
student at Galludet. I have been learning ASL for the past 6
years, and am finally starting for feel fairly fluent.
I am a "non-traditional" student, 38, single, and doing
the "dorm" thing here at Gallaudet. I do not have any
relatives that are deaf. My reason for learning to sign is that
I used to be a professional clown. I felt bad that I could not
communicate with a deaf child at a party, so I started learning
sign language... and it has snowballed since then.
My field of study is linguistics, and my only two languages are
English and ASL.
Cecelia Smith
Cecelia40@aol.com