You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Episode 8,

why you should not ask a deaf person if they lip read.

Welcome to First Name Basis,

a community of parents committed to making the transformation,

from good intentions to confident action.

Join us each week as we cover critical topics and answer the questions you've never felt comfortable

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I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw.

Hello, First Name Basis, fam.

I am so glad you are here. So September was Deaf Awareness Month and I know it's October

now but we just couldn't let it pass without giving you guys an episode about deaf history and

deaf culture. As I've mentioned before, we are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

and oftentimes in our church, when youth become adults, they have an opportunity to go serve

a mission for our church.

So they go to tons of places around the world, and they share the gospel of Jesus Christ

with the people there.

And Carter got to serve his mission in Kansas City, Missouri, and it was really special because

Kansas City is awesome, but also because he was able to serve as an ASL missionary.

So that means that when he was preaching the gospel, he spoke American Sign Language.

After he came home from his mission, he was an interpreter for many years, and he had such an

amazing opportunity to get to know friends in the deaf community.

So I just thought it would be totally perfect for him to teach us, me included, because I have so much to learn on this topic, to teach all of us about the deaf community and more about deaf culture.

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