Florida: Calling All Deaf Advocates!

[Dan Parvaz]

I'll be there!

Even though there is no linguistics department at UCF, there is a minor
administered through the English department, as well as other folks in
Anthropology and Education who have appropriate backgrounds. Most
linguists accept the status of signed languages as languages in their
own right. Has anyone contacted these folks?

In my experience, legislation of capital-T Truth tends to make
academics dig in their heels. They don't like the used car salesmen in
the the legislature dictating what is a language any more than they
would like to be told that they had to teach creation science. It's
impinging on academic freedom. The way to do this is though rational
persuasion. Has the faculty senate or the Provost given a reason that
can be argued against?

-Dan, who remembers the fight to get ASL accepted for FL credit at his
own institution.