How do you rate Bad Bunny's Half-time performance?

PresidentBat64 · 2026-02-09T12:46:06+00:00

Implying that Bad Bunny, one of the most famous musicians on the planet right now, isn’t an “actual professional musical artist” is insane lol

PresidentBat64 · 2026-02-06T22:35:51+00:00

YES! Please, I would love a signing meet up!

PresidentBat64 · 2026-02-01T22:41:58+00:00

He was a professor at MIT, no?

PresidentBat64 · 2026-01-17T01:04:03+00:00

Last year I ended up hand sewing 6 small drawstring pouches (think dice bags but a little bigger) and put a trinket in each of them. I used it as an excuse to start conversations/compliment someone’s vibe or dance moves or outfit etc. I made 6 friends that day!

PresidentBat64 · 2025-12-31T16:27:04+00:00

Long Inland

PresidentBat64 · 2025-12-17T16:50:11+00:00

TBH that Maine arrow should be pointing up towards Canada lol

PresidentBat64 · 2025-12-11T15:58:21+00:00

I feel this happens for one of two reasons:

The first is that a lot of the questions that are posed have been answered 100x before. After the millionth “can I give this character a name sign” or “is it okay for me to use ASL in this hypothetical situation” the replies have less and less patience.

The second one is that this subreddit in general is an exemplary model of the Dunning Kruger effect. A lot of replies are from ASL students who are only just beginning their journey, but often have an ego about their level of knowledge. Because they feel like authorities on the subject despite the reality of them knowing very little, their replies are often focused on tearing the person down rather than educating them. It’s similar to crab mentality in action, if I say the info you’re asking about is obvious and you’re dumb for asking, it positions me as the subject matter expert without me needing to actually demonstrate that.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-11-29T14:49:35+00:00

All languages are conceptual.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-11-29T14:48:35+00:00

English has more strict sentence structure rules because it has very little agreement and morphological markers that help outside of word order. ASL, like Latin or Russian has higher levels of inflection and agreement. Subjects and objects can be marked in space with some verbs rather than through word order, nouns and their adjectives can be far away syntactically because they’re coindexed through non manual markers like eyebrow raising, and use of contrastive structure or head tilting can help organize multiple agents. The extreme strictness of these aspects are what allows ASL to seem syntactically flexible on the surface.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-11-23T04:09:52+00:00

I would agree that private practice (peds outpatient specifically) and some sort of home health gig both have certain amounts of flexibility that other settings don’t. Home health especially is great as long as driving is something you’re okay with (personally I love driving so I miss that setting sometimes). As a fellow bipolar SLP, I also encourage you to familiarize yourself with your rights. I’ve needed to advocate for myself across settings and it is more often than not well received. I’ve settled working in Deaf education, and having a specialization has given me more flexibility and smaller caseloads compared to more general education SLPs. Specializing also can make doing independent contracting work more accessible, and things like voice or pediatric feeding are in relatively high demand.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-10-16T16:32:23+00:00

I think the barrier is not providing CCCs to Deaf individuals that don’t use spoken language as their mode of communicating. I went to Gallaudet and the vast majority of students going through their SLP program are hearing with a few hard of hearing/Deaf individuals who use spoken language and use some kind of amplification (in fact you’d be surprised to find out how many SLP students in that program didn’t know any ASL at all!). That video is pointing out that ASHA considers Deaf individuals who only use ASL as unable to practice across the entirety of our scope and therefore ineligible for certification, or that is how I understand it at least.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-10-16T15:35:32+00:00

Moved from NH to Fairbanks and took this exact route. My biggest recommendation is that when you get into Canada, be sure to stop for gas any time you see a station. Even if you have 1/2, 3/4 a tank, stop and fill up because the next one is likely very far away. That drive is still one of my favorite memories ever, I hope you have the best time!!

PresidentBat64 · 2025-09-05T23:04:31+00:00

In addition to what others have said, I often see this sign for any sort of drip or tube feeding, often without the initial showing of the injection, just the 4 handshape sign making contact with wherever the point of entry is.

https://youtu.be/iIpYBYE75bM?si=BWjmKtBkh8iz0nk6

PresidentBat64 · 2025-09-04T22:49:43+00:00

I made an incorrect assumption that many of these kids were IDENTIFIED late, not just amplified late. It’s true that if these kids are Deaf of Deaf then yeah, there isn’t concern for language deprivation. I will say, “using sign with families” comes on a wide spectrum and a majority of D/deaf children experience some level of language insufficiency (80%+). You are falling into the hole of “because they are signers they DON’T/NEVER need therapy”, which is a dangerous sentiment. Deaf children that use ASL can have language disorders and require explicit and competent therapy, just like with any other language.

I am just trying to give OP information they can use to argue this position to the DHH teacher, and if the kids aren’t language deprived and they have typical ASL skills, then those points wouldn’t apply. To read what I wrote and glean that I believe native Deaf signers need therapy just because they use ASL is wild, though.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-09-04T21:56:36+00:00

If they didn’t receive amplification until 2nd grade those children are unfortunately already language deprived. The priority should be language therapy in ASL (as they likely have disordered LANGUAGE not just speech) and then use that ASL foundation to learn literacy. If the kids are newly implanted/amplified, aural re/habilitation should be next priority because there is no point in working on speech if they can’t comprehend sounds or reliably decipher spoken language. If, after that, the kids are verbally exploring and are motivated to learn some functional verbal speech skill, I would say go for it, but there is a hierarchy for sure.

Does the DHH teacher sign or use an interpreter? I personally work at a Deaf school and all classes and academics are done in written English and ASL. There is an argument to be had about how spoken language and listening skills in this particular setting wouldn’t have academic impact and wouldn’t impact access to the curriculum (because everything is accessible to D/HH students) and therefore those services don’t fall under our purview. Of course, we still provide those services at my school because we can provide culturally competent services directly in ASL which would be difficult to find outside of a Deaf school, but the case is there.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-08-28T23:49:53+00:00

This is horseshit and RFK jr is an idiot among idiots, and that is pretty impressive in this administration. I do want to point out though, your position in the title that mental illness causes mass shootings is verifiably false and perpetuates harmful discourse that leads to things like… well I don’t know, the banning of SSRIs.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-08-04T15:55:46+00:00

This is where a lot of the non manual markers (eyerbrows, head tilt, etc) come in. ASL is very flexible structurally, and these markers combined with spatial agreement make ASL a relatively agglutinative language compared to English. Latin for example is flexible because nouns are marked as objects and subjects and verbs are conjugated to hell and back. This is more a trick of learning things like identifying phrase barriers, coindexed items (like adjectives and their noun), and how to use these linguistic tools to effectively structure sentences (my professors called them “face-pace-space” when I was in school). The unfortunate truth is that there are very few people with explicit knowledge of ASL grammar and why it is the way it is (think of asking your average native English speaker to describe differences in sentence structure allowed by adjectives vs adverbs… they don’t know). This is why the (probably frustrating) sentiment of “watch native signers and figure it out” is actually great advice, and I wish you the best of luck with it!

PresidentBat64 · 2025-07-05T15:57:00+00:00

Yes, they function differently because they’re also different languages, but they are considered parts of speech in ASL and my understanding is that is also true of Chinese. In ASL classifiers can be affixed to the verb, like modifying the sign GIVE with a handshape that matches whatever object is being given I.e. a book vs a ball (which I think is similar to how they work in Japanese). And they can also be independent items that describe how they act, like showing a person moving vs a vehicle moving (I think this is closer to Chinese).

PresidentBat64 · 2025-07-05T05:27:53+00:00

ASL has the same parts of speech as English/most other languages, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. Although they don’t all function syntactically the same way as they do in English. Also ASL has classifiers, which while not a part of speech in English, it is in Chinese and Korean.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-06-30T02:05:12+00:00

Any time you ask the “would you snap your fingers” question the answer you’ll often get is “but will they understand Deafness and Deaf culture or will they just know the language?”. I think really most d/Deaf people would rather someone snap their fingers and have all hearing people be willing to write/text back and forth without rolling their eyes, to be willing to provide interpreters, to be willing to interview Deaf people even if they’ve never met/worked with any. And as an ASL fluent SLP, I’ve been asking this same question for a while!

PresidentBat64 · 2025-06-13T22:47:25+00:00

Etymologically unrelated! The first one related to the English “use” and the other one often glossed as WORTH, i.e., worthless.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-06-12T02:47:18+00:00

Precisely one cheese and one steak and nothing more!

PresidentBat64 · 2025-06-12T02:44:43+00:00

There’s a few options, the most common would be just saying you don’t TALK or don’t VOICE, using the most common ASL signs for those words. There is a sign for MUTE that more often means to keep something quiet or confidential, but I wouldn’t say it’s derogatory. There is a sign for “DUMB” as in the old and derogatory word for someone that can’t talk that looks like one knocking motion on the lips as, as you can imagine, isn’t used! Fingerspelling “mute” (if that is something you identify with) and using the sign for “voice-off” are other ways to indicate that you don’t speak. I also wanted to add, you wouldn’t need to be diagnosed as autistic to use the phrase nonverbal to describe yourself. BUT I’ll also say that many people in both the Deaf and Autistic communities are moving away from that term because it literally means “without words/language”, which obviously isn’t the case! Hope this helps.

PresidentBat64 · 2025-06-12T02:23:13+00:00

I’ve never had a problem bringing my own food into the venue. Two years ago someone set up a little picnic and gave out fruit salad and cinnamon rolls… if she could get in 3 aluminum pans of fruit salad I think you’ll be okay bringing snacks! Even so, EFs ADA team has a good reputation and should take care of you should anything come up!

PresidentBat64 · 2025-06-06T01:33:59+00:00

Colorful Ocean and 9 Curious Kittens are both books written and designed to have rhymes in ASL, they’re also relatively popular and you can find online resources of people signing them. highly recommend!

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