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Sat, Feb 04 2012 · 1 hour ago

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Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 4 hours ago

Bilingual Bimodal Webinar
Miss Kat's Deaf journey Bilingual Bimodal Education Webinar 1 I watched this and I loved it! I hope this is the direction Deaf schools are headed! The information was great and I can't wait to watch the next one! (And now we have a name for Miss Kat's language progress...sequential bilingualism!)
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 6 hours ago

Infographic: Deaf Baby
Jon Savage There are many ways to make with fruit but need to start with “fruit seed” first! There are many Language codes with people but need to start with “sign language”
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 8 hours ago

Super Bowl XLVI: PepsiCo and the NAD
Deaf Network of Texas Super Bowl XLVI: PepsiCo and the NAD The National Association for the Deaf (NAD) and PepsiCo announce that the NAD Miss Deaf America, Rachel Mazique, will perform the National Anthem and America the Beautiful in American Sign Language (ASL) at the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis on February 5, 2012. The NAD in partnership [...]
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 8 hours ago

Tanzania, Africa - gap year option
PDDCS News Request in today for a volunteer who is confident in BSL to support in a young deaf child in Africa. The volunteer role is to include work with the organisation, Forever Angels Baby Home, caring for orphaned and abandoned babies, supporting access in the Tanzania International School and further developing the family (British) signs in BSL. Further information is ava...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 11 hours ago

NAD, NFL, and NBC team for Super Bowl Captioning Experience
NAD News The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and the National Football League (NFL) along with NBC, the network airing Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, February 5, 2012, worked together to ensure an accessible experience for the most important game of the year. As in years past, the Super Bowl and national commercials as well as network and NFL promotions will be caption...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 11 hours ago

Impeachment trial in sign language
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers Guys I'd like to share with you a very informative and insightful article written by Sir Raul Pangalangan in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He explicitly discussed about the importance of utilizing sign language interpreters in getting the truth and protecting the rights of a deaf person. However, he also enumerated the problems it poses like the [...]
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 12 hours ago

[link] We are asking for the transcript - script - for...
ccacblog [link] We are asking for the transcript - script - for this short video in French Sign Language. Then we want to see if we can upload the script for complete text (subtitles) here also. Bonne chance!
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 12 hours ago

Join us at the Deaf Rally 2012 in St. Louis!
Show Me Deaf Community Our Deaf activists and advocates,You know that in history during Revolutionary War, Paul Revere galloped through the night warning about the British invading. That was April 18, 1775 ( I think ) Now today, February 3, 2012, I am e-mailing to everyone to please think about coming to St. Louis to band together to show those people at EHDI Conference at Union Statio...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 13 hours ago

NAD And NVRC Ask You To Count Captioned Super Bowl...
NAD News Super Bowls are renowned not only for the excitement of the game itself, but also for their legendary commercials. The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons (NVRC) are continuing their annual partnership to count closed captioned commercials this year for Super Bowl XLVI between the New Englan...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 13 hours ago

Please OPPOSE Indiana HB 1367
Deaf YouVideo INDIANAPOLIS - The Deaf community of Indiana to ask us to help them!! We need your support! SAY NO to HB 1367. Support the Indiana School for the Deaf Coalition. Oppose HB 1367. Sign the petition: https://www.change.org/petitions/oppose-hb-1367 Please see 32-minutes film with subtitles which is related and similar with HB 1367 at: “I Sign and I Live” by Aid...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 18 hours ago

My Thoughts on HB 1367, Thus Far
Eh? What? Huh? Rather than build an entirely new center, why not keep the outreach center where it is and look at what exactly is going on there. If there are problems, fix them. Perhaps the staff needs more training or some staff members need to leave. Perhaps new rules need to be enforced to encourage staff members to provide unbiased information. If some of the staff members did ...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 20 hours ago

Speech Reading
At The Rim "Dear Sir/Madam,Thank you for your e-mail regarding lip-reading and sign language tuition.Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills in England/Wales and our role is to inspect schools/children's services and adult learning facilities and report on the findings. Issues such as this fall outside our legal remit."A tale of the tape !...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 20 hours ago

Orwell Knew His Stuff!
The Rebuttal William Lutz, Professor at Rutgers University perceptively comments,  “If there's one product American business can produce in large amounts, it's doublespeak. Doublespeak is language that only pretends to say something; it's language that hides, evades or misleads.” Double speak is the art of saying one thing but meaning another. In today’s age double speak is...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

A Deaf Imbolc Ritual
Deaf Pagan Crossroads Recently I have begun corresponding with a Deaf family who has been studying about Paganism and undertaking their own spiritual journey down the Pagan Path. Both the wife and husband are Deaf, and they have three Deaf children.Together, the family has been begun celebrating the Wheel of the Year and eight Sabbats. I recently shared [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Listening from the Heart
Brian Patrick Jensen Sarah's Speech It is is June, 2010. The scene is an all-student assembly where faculty and proud parents join for a wonderful year-end elementary school tradition called “The Moving Up Ceremony.” Having now completed 6th grade, my then twelve-year-old daughter was chosen for the high honor of giving her class's year-end speech. Sarah's pu...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

World's Tiniest Ear Created
Hearing Sparks This is completely fascinating and more than a little mind-bending.Scientists in Germany have developed the world's tiniest ear, referred to as a "nano-ear." This ear could be able to listen to the sounds of bacteria and viruses, both of which make noise as they move. Not only are they extremely sensitive, they can even tell where a sound is coming from.According to t...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Don't Hang Up... It's a Relay Call... Wait...
Xpressive Handz I got a nice letter in the mail the other day. What is difficult is they want me to call to speak with someone on their staff. I wish it were so simple.I am able to use my own voice when I make phone calls because I became deaf late in life. The phone system I use when I call people is wonderful, however it isn't always easy to connect to someone with it. A Calling Ag...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Timeless Poem for the New Year
Brian Patrick Jensen Tribute to My Angels I wrote this poem for my two children, Amanda, 17 and Sarah, 13. It was late June, 2010. My hearing loss had just worsened profoundly and permanently. I could no longer discern the sound of either daughter's voice and I wanted to offer reassurance. . I published this before; and I [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Did your MP turn their back on deaf children?
Campaigning for deaf children At the bottom of this blog is a depressingly long list of all the MPs who voted to cut benefits for deaf and other disabled children last night in the Welfare Reform Bill debate. Here is a website where you can work out who your MP is if you're not sure. Apparently, you can send [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Author Posts on Forum
Jamie Berke (About.com) The author of a new book for young people, with a deaf main character, has posted on the forum about her book. In her book "Flying to the Light," the deaf character is a young boy with a type of super power. I have not read this book. If you read it, go back to the forum and post your review!Author Posts on Forum originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Thur...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

My Letter to the Indiana Senate Appropriations Committee...
Deaf Echo Dear Senator: My name is Dr. Christopher Jon Heuer, and my dissertation, professional research, and work all fall within the fields of literacy, language acquisition, and Deaf Education. HB 1367 will soon come before you for review. I hope you will consider my arguments against it and oppose it. At the very least, I [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

GTS: Behind-the-Scenes
GallaudetVideo GTS: Behind-the-Scenes Gallaudet Technology Services (GTS) provides essential resources, end-user training and support for academic and administrative uses of technology at Gallaudet University-for the University and Clerc Center communities. Offices that provide direct support to students include the Help Desk, Media and Classroom Support, eLearning and Web Authorin...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

FNPRM #12 – Closing & My thoughts
Sean Gerlis Summing what's being covered within FCC's most recent Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) that will impact on consumers (users). FNPRM can be found at [link] Captioned [click "cc" button to view captions] [7:31]
Thu, Feb 02 2012