Nick Sturley: The government should consider a radical...
The Limping Chicken A recent survey, conducted by City University, London, has concluded that the education system is failing Deaf children in the UK. This survey claims that more than half of oral–deaf children struggle with their reading skills, as do hearing children with dyslexia. The latter often receive adequate support at school while a majority of the […]
Wed, Apr 23 2014 · 39 minutes ago

12 anos da Lei de Libras – Carpina
Cultura Surda Categoria: Eventos País: Brasil Línguas: Português e Língua de Sinais Brasileira (Libras/LSB) No próximo dia 16 de abril, será realizado na cidade de Carpina (Pernambuco) a II Comemoração dos 12 anos da Lei de Libras. O evento, que ocorrerá das 8h30 às 16h30 no auditório da Prefeitura de Carpina, abordará temas como linguística e legislação […]
Wed, Apr 23 2014 · 3 hours ago

USC Lectures on cochlear implants
Deaf News Today Three people were honored recently for the their work with cochlear implants by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Graeme Clark, Ingeborg Hochmair and Blake Wilson spoke at the University of Southern California as part of the Lasker Lectures. Read more here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 4 hours ago

The Hinterlands
Captioned Web TV Paul is a young man of 16, into theoretical physics and lives in the middle of nowhere. His being a scrawny science nerd can make him into a bully magnet, even more so with him being gay. For anyone in the Hinterlands, life's not easy.Note: This is part of the TREVOR Project, of saving young lives. [link]   ---
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 5 hours ago

Alegria, alegria
Cultura Surda Categoria: Sucessos em sinais País: Brasil Música: “Alegria, alegria” (Caetano Veloso) Línguas: Português e Língua de Sinais Brasileira (Libras/LSB) Letra: “Alegria, alegria”, Caetano Veloso Vídeo oficial: “Alegria, alegria”, Caetano Veloso (ver. 2011) Em 1967, um jovem compositor chamado Caetano Veloso chegava à final do 3º Festival da Música Pop...
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 7 hours ago

Sean Forbes Reflects on Influences
Deaf News Today Deaf hip hop performer Sean Forbes spoke at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York yesterday as part of the Cornell University Deaf Awareness Project. The school's student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, interviewed Forbes and asked him about his musical beginnings and commitment to the deaf community. Read the interview here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 12 hours ago

What if Batman Were Deaf?
adreanaline The "ASL Bat" series imagines a Deaf superhero in a comic universe filled with sign language! (Part 1 of 5)
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 12 hours ago

All Welsh Health videos to contain Captions.
Byddar - Cymru Thanks to DARG for this, an end to BSL only public Information  videos ?
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 13 hours ago

A wonderful resource for librarians who interact with...
Silent Grapevine A wonderful resource for librarians who interact with people from the Deaf community is called "The Red Notebook: Deaf Resources @ Your Library", a project started in 1979, spearheaded by Alice L. Hagemeyer. Alice is a retired Deaf librarian, who worked in Washington D.C. at the District of Columbia’s public library. She is also the founder of Friends of Librarie...
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 14 hours ago

Hearing Aide application: Singapore
At The Rim To help the deaf community "hear", and communicate better with the hearing, two mobile applications (apps) were launched on Tuesday. “Say it With Signs” and “Hearing Aide” were developed for the deaf community to make daily communication easier with family and friends.  The “Say it with Signs” app helps the deaf and the hearing communicate better through ...
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 15 hours ago

How to disable and enable subtitles in Windows Media Centre
At The Rim Subtitles and closed captions can be useful - a means of silently watching a film or TV show, and a useful aid for the deaf or hard of hearing. But it is annoying when subtitles appear and you can't work out why, or how to get rid of them. In this article we will explain from where subtitles and closed captions appear, and how to remove them. Here's How to disable and...
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 16 hours ago

Twista and Cued Speech Users Together in a Video Fueling...
Silent Grapevine This video has gotten very positive reactions from the cued speech community and they are very excited to see such a great video with access for those that use cued speech.The description for this video is:The world's fastest rapper collaborates with www.CueEverything.com to produce a groundbreaking cuesic (music) video so deaf individuals can actually experience the...
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 17 hours ago

Annelies Kusters: Preparing to investigate the use of...
The Limping Chicken In India, there is a large number of conventional gestures that practically everybody knows, such as “water,” “toilet,” “how much does it cost,” etc. We are investigating what happens when hearing people encounter deaf people who primarily use Indian Sign Language, and how both use gesture (and elements of speech and writing) to communicate. When […]
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 20 hours ago

Why signers should NOT use children as Interpreters.
At The Rim An excerpt from an UK blog link attacked BY deaf BSL using people as 'negative'...    It's all uphill isn't it ?  Apart from it being labelled child abuse in the UK, it still goes on.   Police, school personnel and other medical care professionals tend to rely on the hearing children of deaf family members to act as sign language interpreters so that they can c...
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 20 hours ago

Deaf versus hard-of-hearing: a viewpoint
At The Rim How the D/d thing affects patient care too, with confusions as to what support is needed, a negative of pro-cultural approaches ? This follows on from increasing concerns the system is adopting signed approaches and trying to adapt them to non-signing HI patients.   Clearly, deaf awareness has been overtaken by the signed variety to HI detriment. Just one area where ...
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 21 hours ago

Not official news yet....
Life with a Cochlear Implant But in few months or so we will be travelling around Europe so I now need to start thinking of things that I need to get.My list currently consists ofSpare processor(does CI teams normally give out spare CI for a long period of time?)Batteries(tons!)Spare mic coversSpare coilsDry and store(I have the Breeze but the Zephyr seems much smaller? And I need some dry bricks...
Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 23 hours ago

Emily Howlett: I’ve had enough of competitive parenting
The Limping Chicken Kids, eh? They certainly get under your skin. How many new parents turn to the Internet to blog and tweet and otherwise explode across social media with a sudden joy they just can’t contain? How many of us simply have to share the incomparable awesomeness of these little humans we have discovered? Before the world […]
Tue, Apr 22 2014

Achievement Testing
Miss Kat's Deaf journey This year is the 4th time that Miss Kat's school has given her the end of the year testing. They use the Stanford Achievement Test. They do it in March every year and they administer the test based on the student's age. The test then gives a grade level equivalency for the student's performance. Because we do this every year, the school is able to not only gauge what ...
Mon, Apr 21 2014

Bill Barkeley Ran the 118th Boston Marathon
Silent Grapevine Running a marathon is something that many people don't dream of doing because it seems like such an impossible distance to run. Bill Barkeley ran the the 118th Boston Marathon on April 21, 2014. While he is among individuals that have people picking up their jaw from the ground, he might be the only one running without his vision or hearing. Bill is a self-proclaimed ...
Mon, Apr 21 2014

Updated interactive exam rubric for ASL class
Daniel Greene For this semester’s exit exams during finals week, I updated the rubric I posted on iRubric last semester. I did this for two reasons: Someone commented on the original blog post that I forgot fluency. After noting that general fluency was one of the criteria on the Signing Naturally “Storytelling Evaluation Sheets,” and after reviewing more rubrics, I […]
Mon, Apr 21 2014

School turns green space into farmland
Deaf News Today TThe Kentucky School for the Deaf has broken ground on a 23 acres garden and research center on its campus. The Advocate Messenger says students last worked the land in the 1970s. Plans are to use the corn, potatoes and strawberries in the school's cafeteria and local food banks. Read the full story here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
Mon, Apr 21 2014

Chief Diversity Officer Cries Lawsuit Because of Demotion
Silent Grapevine Being threatened by a Deaf person "with her voice elevated" (Angela McCaskill) doesn't justify a lawsuit claiming to be threatened. There must be facts to support the connotation that mistreatment was because of being in a protected class. This is exactly what McCaskill argued when she tried to sue her co-worker, Martina Binvenu and Binvenu's partner. Being a bl...
Mon, Apr 21 2014

New Talking Hands prototype....
At The Rim Two young Turkish scientists have built a prototype of "talking gloves" that translate sign language into vocal language, helping people with hearing and speech impairments make their voices heard.  The revolutionary invention of computer engineer Elif Saygi Bavunoglu and her husband, Harun Bavunoglu, a Ph.D student in mathematics and computer science, has been ch...
Mon, Apr 21 2014

Champions Once Again
Indy Hawks Indy Hawks 80 – Frederick Showstoppers 69 Concord, North Carolina - The Indy Hawks captured their third USADB Championship in seven years by defeating the previously unbeaten Frederick (MD) Showstoppers in a game the Hawks were in control of past the midway-mark of the first half, 80-69. The win, their first since 2009 when they […]
Mon, Apr 21 2014

Bobbie Jo Duffy's Contract Not Renewed Leads to Silent...
Silent Grapevine Bobbie Jo Duffy, a former adjunct American Sign Language (ASL) professor at the University of Pittsburgh who signed a one-semester contract was not granted a renewal. In reaction to her contract not being renewed, a student, Sandra Saba got involved and actively demanded answers from administrators. This was only the initial intent behind Saba's battle with Administra...
Mon, Apr 21 2014