Connie Lo Chu-yi did not have a conventional childhood. She was born deaf and enrolled in a school for the hearing-impaired, where she struggled with her early education because the teachers taught using spoken language.
She was consequently forced to acquire most of her knowledge by lip-reading. On the side, using her own slang of hand signs and facial expressions, she learned to fingerspell almost every word in the dictionary.
“We were not allowed to sign because the teachers wanted us...
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