Yesterday, I attended a coffee talk at Panera in Carlsbad meeting with the Carlsbad Unified School District Adminstrators. I was really surprised how the turn out happened. It was a great meeting. It has to do with the Special Education dept. I’m frustrated with the whole spectrum of systematic special education in entire San Diego County because I have expereinces in that field. From UCSB to USC to private programs that helped me to become who I am. I spoke with an advocate and offered my expertise to go over thru the cirriculm in deaf studies and modify information to remove stigma and (I don’t want to use that word indoctrination) It’s just that ASL have been having platform all these years and while spoken English deaf staying silent like Rosa Parks. I had it enough and so the others. I just need to updated that outdated system. They agree with me at wholeheartly because they have seen the whole specturm behind the ‘DEAF’ spectrum. Clarification , medical protocols (I’ve spoke with my speech therapist who have expereinces working at Rady’s). I’m not alone in this battle because my friend is going thru this similar in her home state. To get a sense of a better representation of what deaf is. As you may have read or remembered about how I wrote that San DIego Unifited School district ASL psychologist asked me an ignorant question,”Are you really deaf?”. I shared the email to that Carlsbad Unified School district after getting know to me; was shocked and disgusted. The goal is to stop that behavior, stigma, and assumption.