Erin Perkins Erin Perkins

Mocking: How it is Harmful

Let’s talk about mocking.

As defined by Oxford Languages: Making fun of someone or something in a cruel way.

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Erin Perkins Erin Perkins

Sign Names in the Deaf Community

Name signs are an important component of “capital D Deaf” culture, a term used by some deaf people to indicate that they embrace deafness as a cultural identity.

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Erin Perkins Erin Perkins

Snowboarding While Deaf (DeafBlind)

I’ve been snowboarding for 9 years. When I first started snowboarding, I’d wear both my hearing aid & cochlear implant. But after time went on, I realized how painful it was for me to wear the cochlear implant with the helmet.

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