Margaret Weiss Weiss 1
Prof. F. Levine
SLS1501
4 November 2008
My Choice of Gallaudet University: Why Gallaudet?
I was born deaf to deaf parents. I attended a deaf school from the beginning of kindergarten through high school senior graduation. I grew up using ASL (American Sign Language) as my primary language, and English as my secondary. ASL is the visual-gestural language that best fits my communicative needs as it does for most deaf people. I grew up within the deaf culture and the deaf world. Everybody knows that I am very involved with the deaf community and am always encouraged by several people, especially my parents and my Vocational Rehabilitation counselor to attend Gallaudet University. Gallaudet is a university for the education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing. It is located in northeast Washington D.C. It is the first school which was started for the advanced education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the world. It is still the world’s only......

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Title: Going To Gallaudet University:Why Gallaudet?
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