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Transcription: [00:19:03]
{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}

Anything else you'd like to add?

{SPEAKER name="Jan De Lap/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
Yes I just thought of something else that just came up. Deaf people like to watch T.V.

[00:19:11]
My mother had a color television and she enjoyed watching it, you know the soap operas. My mother was deaf and it was really something how she could know what was going on and how to follow it.

[00:19:24]
Then she decided to sell that television. I told my mother, advertise it, put it in the newspaper, say a used T.V., sound system brand new. My mother had never turned the sound on. [[laughs]]

[00:19:43]
{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}
That is a fact that many deaf people never do use the sound, at all. They can watch the television without the sound, and of course they can watch it with a decoder.

[00:19:53]
Watching football games and so forth, deaf people have a lot of guess ability, guessing ability. They know what's going on with the story.

[00:20:05]
It's time for us to discuss about school life.
{SPEAKER name="Jan De Lap/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
Schools again? I thought I was finished at school along time ago.

{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}
Well they would like to know what it looks like inside your schools.

[00:20:20]
Can you, the three of you share with us by telling your experiences in the schools?

[00:20:31]
{SPEAKER name="Jan De Lap/John Ennis (interpreter)"}

I came from a state school for the deaf, where was the school, I'm saying school, yes. You really, institution.

[00:20:46]
Every state has at least one institution for the state for all the kids who are deaf in that state, will come and be centralized there. One place.

[00:20:59]
Now speaking from the time of the 19 oh 45 to 1957, that's when I was in, in a residential school. Perhaps our experiences will be a little bit different.
School, I guess we had about a hundred students