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Equivalent to English: late (opposite of early)
Link to Maybe: parable.
Easter Vocabulary
COVID-19 Vocabulary
It takes a village to flatten the curve. Practice social distancing, wear a face mask to minimalize risk, and stay safe. <3
Mother Father Deaf Day
Celebrate Mother Father Deaf on the last Sunday of April (since 1994) to honor codas (children of deaf parents) and parents of codas (including deaf children of Deaf parents) and to recognize the gifts of culture and language passed from generation to generation. Stories of the codas and dodas.
Vocabulary: CODA (child of deaf adults)
Art of the Week
a splendid flash of concrete poetry by Literary media artist Jolanta Lapiak.
1950, April 20: Daniel Chester French, an American sculptor whose best known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln (1920), was born in in New Hampshire, U.S.
2002, April 15: Japanese ASL Signers Society (JASS) was officially approved and certified by Tokyo Department of Justice. It is a non-profit organization providing activities and services from ASL classes and workshops to tours and retreats.
2008, April 16: The first Namibian Sign Language dictionary was officially launched in Windhoek, Namibia.
2016, April 19: Thirteen Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing attorneys were being sworn into the Supreme Court Bar at the U.S. Supreme Court.
2017, April 15th: Celebrated the 200th year anniversity of American Sign Language! It was the day when the first Deaf school in North America was established on April 15, 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut.
"The human brain does not discriminate between the hands and the tongue. People discriminate, but not our biological human brain."
-- Neuroscientist Dr. Laura Petitto, 2012