ABSTRACT
Keywords: American Sign Language, hard of hearing, hearing-impaired, late-deafened,
sign language, speechreading
Scenario 1: A professor sees Curtis in the campus dining hall and asks how he likes the
class. The student ignores the tenured faculty member altogether. Perplexed, the professor
gets his lunch and returns to the department office. He shares the puzzling incident with a
graduate teaching assistant who informs the professor that Curtis is deaf.
