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Ms. Rebecca Rose Orton was born deaf. She learned American Sign Language again after being away from the Deaf community for nearly 20 years. After returning to her Deaf origins, she had at least 20 years of signing experience and considers herself bilingual and bi-cultural within both the Deaf community and the hearing world.

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Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean by Michael Erard
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I finished the book, "Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean" by Michael Erard on October 29th, 2018. I had started it on June 17th, only a few months earlier. I thought the material covering historical texts was a drag to read through. I was expecting a deeper li Read more of this blog post »

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The Great American Medical Show: The Good, the Not-So-Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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