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September 5, 2007 Cathy Pinette is bright,
cheerful, energetic and very patient. She adapted easily to
our requirements and taught us how to sign our selections of
conversational sentences. However, she still held us to the
discipline required to learn the language: letters & numbers
first, since they form the basis of most full-word signs.
For our lessons, she provided pictorial representations of
each new sentence and allowed us to video-record her signing
each sentence for later review. Signs frequently include
movement which drawings don’t convey.
She has a very good depth in sign language ... it’s her
working language. She uses it every day and has for decades,
using a few variants. The advantage of this is that she can
explain the nuances of related signs and can focus more on
the ones that are more commonly used. She is hearing
impaired, but can follow a spoken conversation through sound
and lip-reading, a great comfort factor to those with
hearing. This also means that she can appreciate and guide
students through the grammatical differences between spoken
language and sign language, which helps both hearing and
hearing-impaired students to understand the other’s
conventions.
With Cathy, we joke, we laugh ... we have a good time. If
you’d like a reference from us, feel free to contact us
through Cathy.
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