About Signed By Me
Signed By Stories is led by individuals who understand how frustrating it is navigate therapy and general mental health support as a deaf person. Especially, when most of the options available to us were created by and for hearing people.
The point of this vodcast, a video-accessible podcast, is to educate hearing people about us. We share our stories to demonstrate we are not isolated in dealing with the challenges we go through every day. Our community does not have the same number and quality of mental health resources and support that the hearing community has. We also don’t have the same level of education, language support, and family support that most hearing people do. This makes things very tough for the mental health of our community. We are in crisis.
During these episodes we share with you our deaf experiences, culture, community, language, identities, how we communicate, our challenges and our Deaf pride. We hope these episodes will help hearing people understand how to better serve and work with us. Because each of us deserves to be well and to be cared for in the language we use.