Childhood Observation

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I went down to the Ohio School for the deaf on Friday to pick up my little brother. Andrew has been going to OSD for five years and he really seems to love it there. I just sat in on a conference with Andrew’s teachers and him and my mother. This is Andrew’s first year in high school and he is having a hard time adjusting to the new routine and the fact that he has homework almost every single night of the week and sometimes on the weekends. I did not interact with anybody but I did just observe how the teachers, my mom, and Andrew all interacted. I learned that being fluent in ASL means that you are signing very quickly and for somebody who is just now learning ASL, it was very hard to keep up with how fast everything was moving. I did

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