if you think of it. being Deaf or being CODA is probably a great excuse to get a phone at a young age 😂 especially considering you need to tell someone you’re out of toilet paper lol

What did you think of the movie CODA?

It's a great language to pick up, enriches your life and is definitely worth it.

Check out: www.coda-international.org/ you might find what you're looking for there!

@@FallingGalaxy Thanks I will look into it!

Sue - yes that's Maxwells you know! :) Joe and Sally resides in Oregon.

Hi Sue, yes I am the daughter of Joe & Sally. Thanks for your message! Great video!!

Yes there is! Here's a link: facebook.com/groups/CODAINTERNATIONAL

Joey Baer Hey Joey. Did not know the term changed. In the mid-seventies, my ex was a teacher of deaf people and the term hearing impaired was the word used. It was the correct term then. Dang, so much changes with time. Take care....

***** -- For the millionth time, yes. Time changes things, I get it people... Geesshh...

Ann Ezzell The reason we decided not to caption that part was to show their pride in knowing 2 languages, since they talked through the whole film, we wanted a part that showed purely their "deaf" side.

Thanks for the explanation, but I respectfully disagree with your logic there. By not captioning the signing/fingerspelling parts you're not only making part of the video inaccessible to non or inexperienced signers, you're also masking the richness of ASL. Just my opinion, of course. Again, congratulations on a great film.

Ann Ezzell Yes, its just the same reason why we didn't caption the ending either, we wanted to show everyone's pure deaf side.

You absolutely can, thank you!

KendaKenda i believe it’s his nickname-sign

It's a unique 'disability' because the problem the Deaf community has with it being called a disability is that it invalidates and dismisses the rich language, culture, and understanding of the world that Deaf people have. It's more than just not being able to hear. There are perspectives that hearing people rarely ever know exist in life, that they have. I know it's different for every deaf person, but I have a friend who sees her being deaf as merely how you might see the difference between you and a dog, the dog can hear Earthquakes before they hit and you can't. It can run away from dangerous things it hears that you won't know about until they're upon you. Does that make you disabled? She considers herself Deaf as in part of the Deaf culture, and doesn't feel disabled at all.

+Mary Elizabeth Beckwith Grandchild of Deaf Adult**

+Mary Elizabeth Beckwith en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_of_deaf_adult

+Mary Elizabeth Beckwith Scroll down to 'Related Deaf culture acronyms for identifying family members' I think that's what it is

Yes, my friend is a CODA and whenever I'm over at his place I can still understand what his parents are saying a lot of the time even though I can't use ASL. Their body language is easy to read when they're using it and they'll often say something to me in ASL and my mate goes to translate for me and I go "Yep I know" and he just looks at me strangely.

***** thats nice, born that way, injury, illness?

Gordon - oh gosh - it is so good to hear from you! Thank you for leaving a comment! ITV at CSD have changed to Digital Media but the course outline remains the same! Do come and visit us! :)

Joey Baer Thanks, Joey, love to come....I will contact you through Sandy in IT, probably in October, traveling a bit between now and then, all the best, gordon

Not usually, I'll sign with my siblings if my father or another deaf person is around to include them in the conversation, when I'm on the phone with someone, or if we need to say something we don't want someone to overhear. Other than those situations, we verbally speak to one another.

LosAnggraito well me and my sister like to sign when we are in front of other ppl and we don't want them to hear us 😂

Lol, we do that sometimes too.

Cool, thanks for the replies guys :)

It's actually pretty common for deaf parents to have hearing children. Also, my mom was born into a hearing family, so that increased the chances of my sisters and I being hearing.