Jason Gervase | ASL Pinnacle

@aslpinnacle.bsky.social

Deaf Professor • Advocate • Traveler • Occasional troublemaker 🌵🏳️‍🌈🤌🍉 Learn ASL with me → www.aslpinnacle.com

If you’re a hearing ASL teacher & feeling unsure, that’s okay. Sit with it. Ask: Why am I in this role? Am I taking space from a Deaf teacher? What am I doing to ensure Deaf voices lead? With ASL & Deaf Studies programs being cut, who gets let go first? Be honest.

Several weeks ago, four of five STEM programs that make up the NIH-funded Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY were cut (the fifth is expected to be cut too). A PhD student made the below infographic to visualize what these cuts mean as a catastrophic generational loss for #Deaf science

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