John Egbert's Opinions

Is Hands and Voices Really Unbiased and Neutral?
John Egbert's Opinions Is Hands & Voices Really Unbiased and Neutral? I have been approached and encouraged to join Hands & Voices, [link]  but some have warned me that Hands & Voices is not really unbiased and neutral despite of their mission statement: Hands & Voices is dedicated to supporting families with children who are Deaf or Hard [...]
Sat, Feb 04 2012

Letter From the ASDC Board about HB 1367
John Egbert's Opinions American Society for Deaf Children 800 Florida Avenue NE, #2047 Washington, DC 20002-2732 Date: 1/20/2012 The Honorable Robert Behning, Chair House Education Committee 200 West Washington Street Indianapolis, IN   46204 Dear Representative Behning, We are the American Society for Deaf Children, a proud national organization of parents of deaf and hard of hearing chi...
Fri, Jan 20 2012

Letter From the ASDC Board about HB 1367
John Egbert's Opinions American Society for Deaf Children 800 Florida Avenue NE, #2047 Washington, DC 20002-2732 Date: 1/20/2012 The Honorable Robert Behning, Chair House Education Committee 200 West Washington Street Indianapolis, IN   46204 Dear Representative Behning, We are the American Society for Deaf Children, a proud national organization of parents of deaf and hard of hearing chi...
Fri, Jan 20 2012

Nine Year old Deaf Girl Dismembered in Indiana…Audism?
John Egbert's Opinions See this news release:  [link] My comment: I wondered why Plumadore did not kill Aliahna's two other sisters? Since Aliahna is Deaf, did she know how to talk speech normally or she uses American Sign Language? Aliahna was a mainstreamed student at Holland Elementary School and wondered if the school uses bilingual method, American Sign [...]
Tue, Dec 27 2011

SPEECH is Not a Language, It is Just a Skill
John Egbert's Opinions Yes, true that I was trained to have good skills with speech but I was actually trained to speak good speech…just for the hearing society, not the other way around. And in fact that majority of the Deaf that were trained to learn how to use speech actually do not have normal speech.  Yes, it's [...]
Fri, Dec 23 2011
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I Visualize Lip Reading and also ASL
John Egbert's Opinions I gotta tell'ya Visualizing Lip Reading is harder than Visualized ASL. I have been visualizing lips for years and actually assumed that reading lips was normal until I finally brave enough to throughly learned to be fluency in American Sign Language. I actually did learned sign language but not at the level to be a [...]
Sun, Dec 18 2011

PATIENT-DEAR…..GALLAUDET HEARING & SPEECH CENTER
John Egbert's Opinions HEARING & SPEECH CENTER “Biased” Parking sign… [link] HEARING & SPEECH CENTER PATIENT PARKING ONLY VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED This sign is posted on Gallaudet University Campus Do we have this sign on Gallaudet University Campus? ASL & DEAF CULTURE CENTER PATIENT PARKING ONLY VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED…? No, definitely not.  Deaf people are no...
Sun, Dec 18 2011

Why Hard of Hearing?… Biased Political Correctness?
John Egbert's Opinions Should we stop these stupid terminologies of the Political Correctness Identity? Should we be proud of ourselves as one identity? If not, then we have a problem. Here is the Political Correctness in the society that we seem needed to be identified… “Who we are…?”    ”    colonialized…?”     ”political correctness…?”...
Sat, Dec 10 2011

Will Qaddafi meet AGBell in Hell?
John Egbert's Opinions And congratulate each other of their achievement…? This is the question I got from a Deaf friend of mine. This question really got me thinking more deeper about the ramification of how Qaddafi from Libya and AGBell from USA of their mission. This friend of mine which I will not identify but will say that [...]
Thu, Oct 20 2011

WORLD SERIES Baseball: MONOLINGUAL VS. BILINGUAL
John Egbert's Opinions Yes, we got the World Series Baseball on now and it is Texas vs. St Louis. Texas is famous for Bilingualism and St. Louis, Missouri is famous for Mono-lingualism and who are you rooting for? I am going to support for Texas because of its bilingual ideology…two language for the people whether it is for [...]
Wed, Oct 19 2011

AGBell’s Desperado Attempt with Recruiting….You Too?
John Egbert's Opinions Yes, it is hysterical that they mailed me a letter with a membership card as a temporary member of AGBell. I wonder if President Obama has gotten one too. Yes, AGBell is blinding mailing out temporary membership cards hoping to marketing themselves with thousands, not not millions of (temporary) memberships to promote their cause to [...]
Thu, Oct 13 2011

AGBell Board and Member – Dr. Dimity Dornan
John Egbert's Opinions Can you image that this AGBell board and member would say, “Deafness is at the same stage as polio…it is a scourge in our world” This is another sample that Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and its associates continues the publicity stigmatizing about the Deaf such as a scourge in our world and [...]
Thu, Oct 13 2011

AGBell
John Egbert's Opinions It is hard not to admire how well the AGBell and its associates, the cochlear implantation empire subverting the parents of deaf and hard of hearing babies. Really,
Sun, Sep 18 2011

Educate the Truth about Deaf Reality
John Egbert's Opinions I just launched a new website, JohnFEgbert.com so I can be available to speak to anyone about the REAL reality of how Deaf babies, children in schools, Deaf people in the society can be part of the community as a whole part of the society.  The Deaf community became downgraded ever since their bilingualism identity [...]
Tue, Sep 13 2011

Reasons Why Deaf Babies Should be Organic
John Egbert's Opinions Why do families gamble on the risks of having their new born Deaf baby to be surgically done in order to have bionic ears while they are normal and organically ready to have a happy productive life. Read this link for more information about cochlear industries of their unethical dealings, recalls, and faulty products. It [...]
Mon, Sep 12 2011

The Dark Side of AGBell.Org and its Associates
John Egbert's Opinions I found this while surfing the internet in google, “Cyborgization: Deaf Education for Young Children in the Cochlear Implantation Era” This author, Dr. Joseph M. Valente was raised oral deaf himself, recounts a visit to a school for young deaf children and discovers that young d/Deaf children and their rights are subverted by the cochlear [...]
Sun, Sep 04 2011

Which Have Better Outcomes – Deaf Bilingualism or Deaf...
John Egbert's Opinions This is a good question for newly parents to ask Early Interventionist before making a decision how their new Deaf baby will be nurtured at start.  Over 90 per cent of the parents of Deaf babies are hearing. Let's define the word, outcome, in relation with ideologies from different organizations working with deaf babies and [...]
Thu, Sep 01 2011

Who the Hell is John Egbert
John Egbert's Opinions Many asked, Who the Hell is John Egbert? You can learn more about who John Egbert when you read my presentation that I gave verbally and yes, I said  it all in 30 minutes. And why I promote bilingualism: ASL/English after learning sign language for the first time at the age of 19. This was [...]
Thu, Aug 25 2011

The AGBell Plantation Mentality
John Egbert's Opinions Four years ago I started the rumble by protesting the AGBell AVT conference in Virginia because they were against bilingualism and did not want Deaf babies to learn ASL.  And I was surprised that the new grassroots organization, Deaf Bilingual Coalition, that I founded was the first organization ever to protest in public against AGBell.  [...]
Thu, Aug 18 2011

Sinister Attitude or Sincere Attitude
John Egbert's Opinions Some (sinister attitude) bloggers are concern about the Deaf community that they are not being respected despite having anti-Deafhood op-ed or degrading the integrity of American Sign Language on their blogs and so forth. What's the difference between sinister and sincere attitude blogger writing about deaf reality?  The difference is how they do the empowering ...
Fri, Jul 15 2011

PARENTS….I am Proud being Bilingually Deaf
John Egbert's Opinions I was raised as an oralist assuming that Deaf people using American Sign Language were different than me because I did not know any sign language and felt normal in the society that treated me as handicap because I was not able to “listen” like hearing people.  Yes, I can hear but seem unable to [...]
Sun, Jul 10 2011

AGBell’s Skills With Propagandaizing The Media
John Egbert's Opinions It takes money to succeed using the naive media sources writing about the success with the ideology of “Speaking and Listening” for the Deaf babies between the age of 0 to 8 and AGBell got the money do mislead. The ideology of “Speaking and Listening Only” for Deaf babies is still a failure ideology but [...]
Mon, Jul 04 2011

80 Percent in Deaf Community were Screwed
John Egbert's Opinions I am one of the 80 percent of the Deaf citizens entering the Deaf Community as being one of the misguided Deaf citizen groomed by their misguided hearing parents. Yes, 95 percent of the Deaf were born to hearing parents like myself. But I am one of the five percent, no more than ten percent [...]
Mon, Jun 27 2011

AGBell Ideology vs. Deaf Ideology
John Egbert's Opinions The AGBell Ideology is Speaking and Listening. The Deaf Ideology is Observing and Learning. The Speaking and Listening Ideology used to be oralism and oralism was proven failed and this ideology is the main reason why we still have problems with Deaf Education today. This is why they changed from oral method only to Speaking [...]
Wed, Jun 22 2011
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Why Oralism is like Handcuffs on Deaf babies
John Egbert's Opinions Many people do not really know the definition of the word…Oralism. Oralism is a auditory monolingual only philosophy to train babies that do not have the same hearing ability to learn to speak like hearing people and at the same time denying to have any assists of their availability to use their natural visual capability [...]
Sun, Jun 19 2011

Does AGBell have the Terrorist Attitude towards ASL?
John Egbert's Opinions Deaf babies are born to be bilingual but the 1880 Milan Conference voted to disregard visual language: sign language and teach all deaf toddlers and children in schools the monolingual auditory only method all over the world and Deaf education went down hill ever since then. But the Oralism ideology such as AGBell and its [...]
Fri, Jun 17 2011

The Normal Deaf Generation – Blingualism
John Egbert's Opinions I was born Deaf and my parents were told not to learn or teach me sign language. The normally of myself was taken away into the “new deaf generation” – listening and speaking. Yes, with my gifted talent of mimic sounds and my ability to hear most frequency sounds gave me the ability to mimic [...]
Fri, Jun 17 2011

My Open Letter to All Deaf Leaders
John Egbert's Opinions DEMAND IT for the Deaf Dear Everyone as Deaf Leaders, As we all know that there are many parents of newborn Deaf babies who are not aware of the Deaf community and their full communication abilities using language in the visual modality – American Sign Language.  But we all know that the medical profession typically [...]
Mon, Jun 13 2011

ASL is Our Primary Language And We are Bilingual
John Egbert's Opinions Some misguided people like I once was continue to misguide others that we use PSE, not ASL. What they don't get it that we are bilingual and we intertwine our bilingual language: American Sign Language and English. While we all know that ASL is our primary language and also being bilingual with English, we intertwine [...]
Wed, Jun 08 2011

What About AG BELL TRASH?
John Egbert's Opinions Regarding about Barry's Blog – Deaf Trash – [link] 65% of the people(hearing) are visual learners...Deaf are at least about 95% visual learners, if not 100%. AGBell do not support bilingualism philosophy: ASL/English..obviously, it is too visual. AGBell supports only listening and speaking:  Learn to listen and understand without lipreading by ...
Sat, May 07 2011

Gallaudet University and Howard University Report Card
John Egbert's Opinions A Blogger wrote about Gallaudet University that got bad grades on environment. He asked: “What are they thinking? What's going on over there? Lack of enthusiasm? I wonder what their excuses would be” In the same area down the street from Gallaudet University is another University, Howard University and wonder if this blogger also will [...]
Sat, Apr 30 2011

ASL Student’s Opinion of John Egbert
John Egbert's Opinions An Opinion of an ASL student of John Egbert's presentation given at a Deaf Culture class. Chelsea Hxxxxxx Speaker Reaction Paper – John Egbert ASL 3705 4/18/11 My first impression of John was that it seemed odd to have him speaking when there were interpreters present. From my experience, most Deaf people don’t enjoy speaking, [...]
Wed, Apr 20 2011

Why are Deaf People Born to be Bilingual?
John Egbert's Opinions This is a question that many do not want to attempt to answer. There are many reasons why doctors, audiologists, speech therapists, “listening and speaking” organizations and other anti-sign language groups around the world do not support bilingualism. Two of the reasons are: sign language and native language. Let's hear what many have said about [.....
Mon, Mar 28 2011

Is AGBell Similar to Wall Street?
John Egbert's Opinions I watched this documentary movie – Inside Job – and I had flashbacks about AGBell and how naive we all can be when it comes to GREED, auditory ideology only. Like AGBell, when you have so much money, you could lose your morality value and become THE manipulator with so much focus making money by [...]
Thu, Mar 24 2011

The Born Again Former Colonialized Naysayer
John Egbert's Opinions The blog by Dianrez prompted me to write this. I was born with severe profound hearing loss in Jackson, Mississippi where Mississippi School for the Deaf is located only two miles from my house. My hearing parents were told not to learn sign language and started oral only school mostly learning speech until after the [...]
Tue, Mar 22 2011

Is AG Bell a Cultist?
John Egbert's Opinions What is cult?  Are there a good and bad cults?  Do we have aggressive and victimized cult group? Is Alexander Graham Bell an aggressive cultist? Here is what he is famous for: 1) the chief architect and advocate of the oral/aural only exclusive method in Deaf education in the USA. 2) Banning ASL from the [...]
Fri, Mar 18 2011

To The Little Mickey/AGBell.Org, Here is My Opinion
John Egbert's Opinions The whole SheBang of all the reason why WE ARE STILL HAVING PROBLEMS WITH DEAF EDUCATION today is because of the ideology with Alexander Graham Bell's advocated to the Superintendents of the Deaf schools across America to stop sign language and start teaching oral only method MANY YEARS AGO. And now we got this Mickey [...]
Sat, Mar 12 2011

The Colonialized Hearing Impaired’s Fear of Deaf Culture
John Egbert's Opinions Phobia. That word comes from the Greek word ‘Phobos' which means irrational fear. Do many Colonialized Hearing Impaired have them? Some colonialized hearing impaired bloggers do not want to be identified as Deaf people or being part of the Deaf Culture and is it because of having a phobia character? Here's my question. If you [...]
Fri, Mar 04 2011

Why 30 Million Hearing illiterates in USA?
John Egbert's Opinions For us Deaf people, I think many of us can't image any Deaf people being totally illiterate, can't read and write. But why are there over, i mean it, way over 30 million hearing people that are illiterate right here in this country. Have you as a Deaf person wondered why this particular hearing person [...]
Sun, Feb 27 2011

There is No Such Thing as “ASL-Only Extremist”
John Egbert's Opinions Again, this misguided hearing impaired blogger is out to confuse the public if Edward Miner Gallaudet is an ASL/Sign-only extremist. And I also appalled that this hearing impaired blogger also setting up a poll….for whatever the hell he/she is trying to accomplish if Edward Miner Gallaudet is an ASL/Sign-only extremist. Let me explain that there [...]
Sun, Feb 27 2011

AG Bell, An Oral Extremist, Did More Harm than Good
John Egbert's Opinions Alexander Graham Bell was an oral extremist and damaged most the Deaf people's well-being as a normal person for many, many years. AG Bell did not understand how education works and he was just an ideologue, the worse kind ever to Deaf humanity in history! AG Bell's ideologue was to teach Deaf babies oral speech [...]
Sat, Feb 26 2011

ASL Extremists?
John Egbert's Opinions How do you define ASL Extremists? It is sad that this woman(AB2072 Supporter) from Chicago area as a commenter on a misguided hearing impaired blogger is so confused. She also even quoted, “Deaf Extremists” in her comment...what a joke! Majority of the Deaf community are Bilingual Advocators, not ASL(only) Extremists and most of us know [...]
Fri, Feb 25 2011

AG Bell, A Fraud Inventor of Telephone?
John Egbert's Opinions Now we have this misguided hearing impaired blogger going around telling the public that we should respect AG Bell of all the technology we have now. The truth needs to be told and I will give links and other information that is now in google. AG Bell did not invent the telephone, but yes he [...]
Thu, Feb 24 2011

Hearing Mom’s Experience at EHDI-Atlanta
John Egbert's Opinions Here is a hearing Mom's odd experience at EHDI in Atlanta just this past weekend. And here is her exact words of her experience; At the EDHI conference, I was sitting at the back of one of the workshop rooms and an older gentleman sat down beside me.  He looked pleasant enough so I asked [...]
Wed, Feb 23 2011

Oh I AM SORRY, I Thought You’re Hearing!
John Egbert's Opinions No matter how well you speak as a Deaf person, you are still not hearing. I would like to share this story of what happened to me yesterday at the Early Hearing Detection Intervention conference in Atlanta, GA. [link] I was an exhibitor working two days and everyone heard me say “Good Morning” pleasantly when [...]
Wed, Feb 23 2011

Visit Me at EHDI Atlanta, GA – Feb. 20-22
John Egbert's Opinions If you will be at Early Hearing Detection Intervention (EHDI) in Atlanta, GA,  Please do stop by the exhibit booth with this banner. Thank you, John F. Egbert
Sat, Feb 12 2011

I am Oral Success Too But Not INCONSIDERATED of Others
John Egbert's Opinions Many people say that I have incredible speaking ability meaning oral success for a Deaf person like myself with 90 to 110 db.  And yes, there are many other oral success hearing impaired people that have anywhere between 40 to 60 db but it is not fair in comparison with many having 90 or more [...]
Mon, Feb 07 2011

My Comment to Amy: The Greatest Irony: Message to EHDI
John Egbert's Opinions Amy, I am also posting this on my blog as the comment to your blog, “The Greatest Irony”: Message to EHDI Your “The Greatest Irony” is what got me motivated to be an strong advocate for Deaf babies and their parents to be educated with the responsibility duty as “parent's choice” because too many parents [...]
Mon, Jan 31 2011

“YOU ARE EITHER WITH US OR AGAINST US”
John Egbert's Opinions Who's “THEM”?????? Everyone knows “THEM' are the main reason why American Sign Language are being marginalized for over 100 years. These “THEM” people continuing on the propaganda that American Sign Language(ASL) is the main reason why Deaf Education failed for the past 100 years but reality, over 90% of the Deaf infants and c...
Wed, Jan 19 2011

Unfortunately, He is still a Loose Cannon
John Egbert's Opinions Under Candy's blog – [link] Amy wrote her comment about “not enough credible blogs out there to present facts to promote change the system, promote positive things that is happening, and promote achievements.” And I agree that we need to start changing how we write our blogs to more constructive and positive approach to resolve [...]
Mon, Jan 10 2011