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{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Thank you for the question. Are there any others? Questions?

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Well, I have one. I'd like to ask about family traditions in families that have deafness for several generations, and in particular about name signs.

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Is there a family tradition of name signs, perhaps, where in a deaf family, the parents will often give a name sign I guess before a child goes to school?

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{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
I'll have to use my personal story. My mother is deaf. Her name is Nana, like this: this is the name sign, for an "N".

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And then the oldest daughter, Karen, is like this, with a "K". And then me, I'm Janet, with a "J". The youngest daughter is Doris, with a "D". And all from the chin to the chest.

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That's my mother's family, alright? The oldest sister, Karen, has her own four children. This one is Ernie, with an "E", Judy, "J", Chad, where would the "C" be for Chad? Right. And Keith, right there again. And that's their group.

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My daughter's name sign is Ruth. I suppose if I had more children, it'd be "R", "J", "K", and so forth out there.

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My younger sister has three children of her own. Joann is here with a "J". Jessie--Jessica is like this: "J" into "C", for Jessica.

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Jimier with a "JR", so "J", "JC", "JR", "KC", "JPE", Ruth, Karen, and so on, and so forth, you have to sort of know what family you're in and which way to use the signs.