To: Deaf Community Members and Friends
Subject: Workshop – Audism
Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011
Location: Vancouver Community College Campus
1155 East Broadway?Vancouver, BC
Room: Room #2556
Time: 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
The GVAD is pleased to present an audism workshop with Lance Forshay. Audism is a term typically used to describe discrimination against deaf or hard of hearing people, although it could also be expanded to include anyone with a difference in hearing ability. This discrimination can occur in a number of forms in a range that includes physical, cultural, and linguistic variants. (Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Lance Forshay
photo by Mary Levin
Lance Forshay has been an ASL Lecturer and Program Coordinator at the University of Washington since 2007. He earned his BA in Mathematics and Secondary Education in 1992 from Gallaudet University and MS in Ministry in 1998 from Southern Christian University. His interests are Deaf Culture Studies, Audism and Oppressions in the Deaf community, Deaf Christian Heritage, ASL Fingerspelling Phonology, Inflectional Verb System, and Sign Vocabulary Etymology.
