Helen E. Meador, in her article, tells of several encounters with deaf students. In one of her many experiences, she explains how she learned to sign what she means in order ensure that her students understood what she meant, not what she signed

This article, in my opinion was one of the best I’ve ever read. I’m a deaf student, but there are some things about the deaf that I never knew and I learned them by reading this article. I know that there’s a lot more about deaf culture that I have to learn and hopefully I’ll learn them soon.

One of the many things Meador learned from the deaf was language tolerance. In one situation a deaf student taught her the visual mode of communication. She tells of a teacher who experienced a communication breakdown one day. She was asking a student, in English, to turn off the lights in the classroom. Although she signed English, she left out words by only signing, “turn, out, light.” The student astonished her by exiting the door and turning outward where the l

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