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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

~ I. King Jordan

After Anything Becoming Better Deaf Education Ever Get Life My Life Realized

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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

~ I. King Jordan

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Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.

~ I. King Jordan

Among Deaf Deaf People Differences Need Okay People Recognize Those Together Work Work Together

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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

~ I. King Jordan

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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

~ I. King Jordan

American British Different Language Lived Scotland Sign Very Year

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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

~ I. King Jordan

Administrator Arts Became College Dean Department Faculty Member Presidential Psychologist Psychology Sciences Search Then Time

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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.

~ I. King Jordan

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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

~ I. King Jordan

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