Candy

Who let the SIGNAGE out???!!!!
Candy     Gallaudet University’s Department of ASL and Deaf Studies is a curriculum department. They provide instruction for the study of ASL, deaf people and deaf community. The Department of ASL and Deaf Studies provides undergraduate degree programs and graduate degree programs. The Department of ASL and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet serves the students and […]
Wed, Oct 28 2015

You Decide? And more…
Candy Well, I am almost back in commission after a hard drive failure, it was partial…but all my files and important stuffs were intact. And, when one has been out of commission for a while, it takes time to really get back into the fold. Like, discovering the real world all over again.  (OMG!) ….and things […]
Wed, Oct 28 2015

Calico Joe
Candy Reading Calico Joe brought back memories. Memories of the summer of 1973 when I discovered baseball.  Memories of being a softball widow for years after I got married.  They were sweet and bittersweet memories. Baseball and softball memories – and to me, they’re both the same, except with softball the ball is bigger and softer.  […]
Mon, Jan 12 2015

Turn A Deaf Ear
Candy The story is based on this character, Linda, who came from a traditional Italian family out of New Jersey whose parent divorced in a time where divorce was considered a taboo. Linda and her family moved out to California after her mother's divorce. Linda's brother brought home a co-worker, John, who was deaf. Linda was both infatuated and fascinated with John and s...
Mon, Jan 12 2015

Turn A Deaf Ear
Candy The story is based on this character, Linda, who came from a traditional Italian family out of New Jersey whose parent divorced in a time where divorce was considered a taboo. Linda and her family moved out to California after her mother's divorce. Linda's brother brought home a co-worker, John, who was deaf. Linda was both infatuated and fascinated with John and s...
Fri, Jan 04 2013

Calico Joe
Candy Reading Calico Joe brought back memories. Memories of the summer of 1973 when I discovered baseball.  Memories of being a softball widow for years after I got married.  They were sweet and bittersweet memories. Baseball and softball memories – and to me, they're both the same, except with softball the ball is bigger and softer.  [...]
Sat, Mar 31 2012

Who let the SIGNAGE out???!!!!
Candy Gallaudet University's Department of ASL and Deaf Studies is a curriculum department. They provide instruction for the study of ASL, deaf people and deaf community. The Department of ASL and Deaf Studies provides undergraduate degree programs and graduate degree programs. The Department of ASL and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet serves the students and faculty members...
Fri, Dec 16 2011

You Decide? And more…
Candy Well, I am almost back in commission after a hard drive failure, it was partial...but all my files and important stuffs were intact. And, when one has been out of commission for a while, it takes time to really get back into the fold. Like, discovering the real world all over again.  (OMG!) ....and things [...]
Fri, Oct 14 2011

Which is better? : Deaf or Deafness?
Candy It's one of the few things that annoys me to no end. It just drives me nuts.
Mon, Oct 03 2011

Research provides Critical info for parents
Candy When I read The Hearing Blog's latest post, “New Research shows Listening and Hearing is Different for Children with Cochlear Implants”, I knew right away that some of the Pro-ASL advocates would mis-interpret the study. And, they did. The study provides critical decision-making information for parents who opt for cochlear implant for their deaf infa...
Wed, Sep 28 2011

National ‘Think Tank’ on deaf education is on the horizon
Candy There is a plan for a large national “Think Tank” to identify challenges in deaf education today, which is scheduled for early Spring of 2012.  The planner hopes for a long-term collaboration to develop and advocate for models and funding to address different educational needs of deaf/hh children in USA where there are variety of [...]
Mon, Sep 26 2011

Once upon a time…..
Candy “Once upon a time Gallaudet was a place where everyone didn't mind whether one used various sign language and/or if one spoke.  Many Deaf of Deaf happen to be hard of hearing and they spoke on campus. They still considered themselves Deaf.  Why should it be a weight at all? What changed? Gallaudet was never [...]
Thu, Sep 08 2011

PSE or Academic ASL?
Candy Linguistics is the scientific study of language.  Linguists discover and describes the rules governing language. Linguist do not make the rules. Linguist's job is to discover what the rules are and how a language system works. languages belong to those who speak them, not to those who study them as outsiders.   (pg 24) Speakers [...]
Fri, Aug 26 2011

I Know What’s Best for ALL Deaf Children
Candy The title of this post was a statement made by a deaf person who flat-out told me “I know what's best for ALL deaf children.” Who really knows what's best for ALL deaf children? Some folks will claim that they do and others acknowledge that what works for one doesn't necessarily work for all. Some [...]
Tue, Aug 16 2011

A Deaf Professor Sues To Get His Job Back
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Sun, Jul 17 2011

A break in Summer Break : Speak now or forever hold your...
Candy It seems every time I start to take a break from blogging, something or someone makes sure I come back.  In this recent development, apparently there are a few vloggers who are incensed with some of the comments made by readers on my recent blog and/or some are still obsessing with what happened a year [...]
Wed, Jul 13 2011

using A-wordism as character assassination is not cool
Candy This post is in response to Deaf Pundit's comment at Deaf Jeff's blog. But first, let me get to a little bit of a history for those of you who might not have followed Deaf Jeff's The Terlinguan post “The JOKE is on you”   I could have responded over at Deaf Jeff's blog but it [...]
Tue, Jul 05 2011

What Evidence? Misconceptions leading to Paranoia
Candy My stance on the situation at ISD – board selection. Alright... I'm going to cut to the chase here regarding the situation at Indiana School for the Deaf, ISD. Do I think ISD should have more than one deaf member(s) of the board?  Sure.  I don't see any issues with that. Do I think ISD [...]
Sun, Jun 12 2011

Look at me now : Breaking the sound barriers
Candy Julie Postance wrote ‘Breaking the Sound Barriers: 9 deaf success stories‘ which is a collection of real life interviews which covers everything  parents of deaf child can gain from.  Most parents just want to talk to another parent who has a child with hearing loss, regardless of which modalities they have chosen for their child. [...]
Tue, May 24 2011

Discrimination at ISD (Indy)?
Candy In a comment section on one of the articles covering the ISD School Board selection, I took notice of this comment by ‘parentthatcares‘ who said: Anastasia said “To make it perfectly CLEAR, ISD support different means of communication method”  This is an absolute inaccurate statement. Tell me why ISD only allows talking in talking zones [...]
Thu, May 19 2011

ISD (Indy) School Board crisis and the Indiana Legislative...
Candy Currently Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD) is going through what some have termed, a crisis. The crisis being, the four vacant board members of ISD were selected and out of the four only one is deaf. Demands were outlined:  remove the three new hearing board; request that the board have at least 51% deaf; [...]
Tue, May 17 2011

Throw out the trash!
Candy Some people understood the ‘trash' meaning behind a statement a vlogger made.  Others were bewildered and yet, more decided to retaliate and started to trash that vlogger.  Even worst, a professor trashed the vlogger's son. There is also this misconception about ‘educated' which seem to imply intelligence when in fact it could only simply...
Sun, May 08 2011

Trash Talk equals…
Candy Deaf Trash. A person who talk trash about another person in deaf cyberspace is a deaf trash. Trash talk=Deaf trash.  Point made.                                  
Fri, May 06 2011

Challenging ASL : PSE Rules!
Candy People are not only confusing the messages about “ASL Failed” but they are also confusing ASL with PSE. Go to DeafVideo.tv and click on some of the well-known vloggers, then, tell me what sign language are they using?  ASL or PSE? Don't bother to get into whether or not PSE is a language,  if pretty [...]
Sun, May 01 2011

What is a leader?
Candy What is a leader? A person who leads or commands a group, organization or a country.  A person followed by others.  A leader usually has followers and a follower follows a leader.  Without followers there's no leader. Followers choose their leaders.  Yep, oh yea. And when a leader suspects its followers are discontent, the leader [...]
Tue, Apr 19 2011

Fourth Grade Reading Level?
Candy Sometimes I wish professionals would be truthful when stating facts. As in this case, Linda Hurtado wrote an article for ABC Action News in which a speech language pathologist was quoted stating a fact that isn't true. The article, “Born deaf, a Pinellas County girl starts school – and hears the school bell“ It's a [...]
Mon, Apr 18 2011

Deaf Ancestry and Ethnicity?
Candy Ever wonder what is the most common genetic cause of deafness? The most common genetic cause of deafness is due to mutations in the gene that makes a protein called Connexin 26.  The gene that codes for Connexin 26 is called Gap Junction Beta 2 (GJB2). Cox 26 along with other genetic markers such as [...]
Tue, Apr 12 2011

Diversity means: ALL, Bar None
Candy “accept and respect all languages and all forms of communication” That was ICED's Statement of Principle adopted on July 19, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia.  ICED issued a GLOBAL CALL to “accept and respect all language and all forms of communication”. The important aspects of that statement of principle are:  Accept and Respect Acce...
Wed, Apr 06 2011

Truth Series : Personal Attacks
Candy This one has to come out.  It's inevitable. Kokonut Pundits blogged on ‘Patti, it's not trashing.‘   He covered how some of his blogging could be construed as “trashing” but he and others do not even see it as that.  When he blogs about the rapes on Gallaudet Campus, they were valid concerns.  I have found [...]
Thu, Mar 31 2011

Pepsi and Bob’s House – never ending reenactment
Candy Remember the Pepsi commercial, Bob's House, during Super Bowl 2008? Everyone in the deaf culture community remembers it and some of them have brought it up time and time again in an attempt to make their point within some of the deaf identity politics discussions on blogs and vlogs in the deaf cyberspace. They kept [...]
Sat, Mar 26 2011

What is ‘deafhood’?
Candy To Understand what is “deafhood”, we need to look at the author of this Deafhood thesis.  We also need to understand what message his thesis is attempting to transmit.  I have found that in order for me to understand why Paddy wrote this book, it has took me to areas such as the history of [...]
Mon, Mar 21 2011

Too Toxic For Ya?
Candy Toxic Deaf Video World, that is. I am taking a break from blogging, or at least I am trying to take a few short breaks, if not long ones. Life is good. I'm busy with lots of other stuffs.  But, I do have to post this short one, for the history books. Am enjoying reading [...]
Wed, Mar 16 2011

What IS Diversity?
Candy Some folks misunderstand what diversity is. And/or some folks confuse accepting diversity with reciprocating. Diversity is NOT expecting a person to perform an expectation in order to return the said expectation in kind. Specifically, sending a message that speaking or using one's voice isn't cool because “hearing” does not make an effort to si...
Sat, Mar 05 2011

Will Deaf Culture Survive without Deaf Schools?
Candy Deaf culture have continued to evolved from the time of Martha's Vineyard to this very day. A question was asked by a Tweeter: Can Deaf Culture/Community survive without Deaf Schools? For two days I pondered that question... That question was prompted by the New York 4201 school crisis. Saving the New York 4201 schools should [...]
Thu, Mar 03 2011

Where does an EXTREMIST fit in the whole scheme of things?
Candy Based on the responses of my previous post on the extremists within the deaf community online, specifically the deaf and/or ASL extremists. The extremist took over and was louder. I had no choice in not publishing several comments. What was evidenced was the extremists couldn't see a middle ground. Where or what is the middle [...]
Mon, Feb 28 2011

What is an Extremist? ASL Extremist? Deaf Extremist?
Candy What is an extremist? Definition from the Free Dictionary: Someone who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics. Definition from the Macmillan Dictionary: Someone who has beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people. Deaf/hh moderates typically call those extremists within the signing deaf communit...
Fri, Feb 25 2011

New Takes : Bears, Swearings, Round 2 & Spring
Candy Gonna do several takes here.... Sleep, Bears, Sleep. It was sad to see the Bears lose.  Dumb to see some Chicagoans burn number 6, and I can say that cuz I'm a Chi girl, true and through.  Crying don't mean you're a wimp, in fact, it shows Cutler was sincere.  Leave Cutler alone, let the [...]
Mon, Jan 24 2011

ASL : A valid language? Part II
Candy Before we go on with Part 2, there are some house cleaning that need to be done, messes left by toxic people. I have observed a lot of comments everywhere in the deaf cyber space and have marveled at how far some people would go.   To the extent one would go to be mean is [...]
Mon, Jan 17 2011

Who is insidious and evil?
Candy Some bloggers bring certain issues to light, issues involving deaf/hh in areas such as education, language and society.  Specifically at times, pointing to Gallaudet, NTID, ASL/PSE/SEE, Hearing aids/CI/AVT, deaf culture/world at large, and what-have-you's. All of these topics impact our deaf community and society in varying and important ways.  By sharing our op...
Sun, Jan 09 2011

ASL : A valid language? Part I
Candy Have you ever wondered whether or not ASL is truly a valid language?  I have observed how ASL seem to be based on English from my observation over the years living within the deaf culture.  Thus, ASL is in my opinion, based on English and does not have consistent grammar rules. All communication efforts by [...]
Tue, Jan 04 2011

Did You Read??!!!
Candy I received an email from wordpress.com sharing the data on my blog. I thought I'd share some of them with the readers. About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 50,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 6 days for that [...]
Mon, Jan 03 2011

The Year in Review : AB 2072
Candy April 10, 2010 has me blogging about AB2072, a bill drafted by Tony Mendoza, for the very first time..... The title of my first AB2072 post was “Hysteria Propaganda Twists Sane AB2072“.   Yes, there was hysteria about this bill and it seemed at the time that the rationale for the hysteria was due to the [...]
Sat, Jan 01 2011

Who’s the Grinch?
Candy Dr. Grushkin AKA DonG, made this statement to Russell Errigo on his YouTube comment section after Russell asked him a question in regards to his video on “How the Grinch Stole Deafhood”. Russell said: I thought Deafhood is about all deaf people who experience their life through deafness. When I say “Everyone” I mean people [...]
Mon, Dec 20 2010

Holiday Special : Deaf/HH Peeps and Music
Candy Some people are ignorant at no fault of their own.  Yet, many who have seen deaf/hh people at venues such as concerts, DJ clubs, bars w/ live bands, etc. are aware that deaf/hh people do enjoy music.  There are many deaf people who have enough residual hearing to enjoy it.  There's also many who do [...]
Sat, Dec 18 2010

All That Moaning and….!!
Candy The recent moanin' and bitchin' by some of the deaf, has me shaking my head. From what it looks like so far, the Bay Area folks and a few extreme deaf activists around the country are at it again. A professor of Deaf Studies not only accused Gallaudet of being a prostitute, but also performed [...]
Thu, Dec 16 2010

Resistance is Futile : Who is Gallaudet?
Candy As a former Gallaudet student, one of the things I enjoyed and always looked forward to was The Buff and Blue student newspaper.  So, it is not surprising that I would check out The Buff and Blue online.  Of course, the actual Buff and Blue on print is way better than the online version. The [...]
Sun, Nov 21 2010

Truth Series : Deafread – for? for?
Candy Before I get into the meat of this truth series, It is a fact that Deafhood (DH) and Deaf Billingual Coalition (DBC) are synonymous.  It was revealed by several former core members of DBC that they were pressured to practice “Deafhood Ideology” within DBC. Deafhood core members did not want the public to know that [...]
Wed, Nov 17 2010

In a while, crocodile..
Candy Later, later alligator... (commotions, too much ado over nothing...) In a while crocodile... (I have a life, don't ya??) Whaaahh  whaaahh (I want in on it!! so, imma gonna make me a video pleading the fifth..) Mole alert!!! (got caught red handed yikes!  must send mass email!!) Well...ya know, I decided all of this is [...]
Sun, Nov 14 2010

A vlogger says: I want my life back
Candy On behalf of Lee aka finlake, I'm going to post his video here.  The video is titled “xa0s' last vlog” which refers to his last vlog at ASLrocks.  You can see for yourself what he has to say about it on his video. The following is my recollection and my views on the bullying that [...]
Fri, Nov 05 2010

Scary Enough Without Sounds
Candy My mom had always loved to share stories with my siblings and I.  Once she shared a scary story with us she learned of while she was a student at Illinois School for the Deaf.  It has been a long time since that story was shared with me, so I will try to tell the [...]
Wed, Oct 27 2010