Great letter, that is what is also written in my thoughts about “everyone’s victory”. I have been thinking what will we as Deaf and Hoh people, also as an ASL linguistic minority group do to catalyze the change. To be truthful I kinda do struggle with envisioning it perhaps because things have been changing so rapidly. I am more close to thinking about Deaf – Hoh people including ASL signers will start fostering good relationship their own education legislators and keep on educating them about importance of supporting ASL – English education for Deaf and Hoh children.

I think we should persuade just few important goals that will bring significant changes we need.

Regarding ADA, jobs, and communication support services, I think they are also part of goals, that is to keep them constantly funded. The DOJ really need more fund for ADA people to be able to enforce the law well, it has not lately. I am yet to see how well ADA reactment is working.

I would like to see more funding for public awareness about us, it needs to move up to mass media as possible. Short savvy films and ads by Deaf film makers should be broadcasted on t.v. and on Internet. Even they should be recruited to create film footage of whatever not necessarily relevant but just show themselves being part of the society. I would like to see them being portrayed as equal going around with ease without trying to show how they ought be successfully mainstreamed in the hearing environment. It is same thing as Native Americans living well with education and jobs both in their own provision or go with the rest without necessarily lose their deserved heritage. This is how we can reframe ourselves and also for other exceptional people.

Anne Marie