By Visual Means

Benefit of ASL in early childcare
By Visual Means Found this great article. All the more reason to push for use of the visual language in child's early years. [link]
Sat, Dec 10 2011

Rules that excludes the Deaf from certain careers.
By Visual Means The other day I was talking with my girl friend and she was telling me about someone who wanted to work on a cruise line but was denied at the very last minute because of a rule that the Coast Guard had in place. I found this article Coast Guard changed rules and thought that this was one good example of where we should remove barriers in rules and regulation so opp...
Fri, Aug 07 2009

Illinois HB0725 - ASL as a foreign language
By Visual Means [link] recently made a request for an amendment to the above mentioned bill to my representative. If you are an Illinois resident please point your representative to this blog and request that they also support an amendment as I have stated below.****************Dear representative,Please add an amendment to the Bill HB0725. That not only make American Sign Language...
Wed, Mar 25 2009

Captioning and DBC
By Visual Means I'm a strong supporter of captioning of web video and I'm also a strong supporter of the cause of the Deaf Bilingual Coalition(DBC). The more I think about these causes, I realized how captioning can help the cause of DBC. I see often times where we are deprived of captioning of web video that entirely in the spoken language and we should continue to advocate for th...
Fri, Dec 05 2008