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AFA IS RIGHT! REPORT TO FDA AND ITS PROGRAM "MEDWATCH"
Show Me Deaf Community UNHAPPY CI USERS NEED TO REPORT TO MEDWATCH!There is a government program where anyone who have issues can report to them for regulation and modification.I reported this on January 17, 2008 about FDA and its medwatch program. It is imperative that everyone contact FDA and the Medwatch program. The more we notify them, they can take action. We need truth and we ne...
Tech Fri, Jun 26 2009

Deaf Children Frustrated with Family Communication Revisited
Show Me Deaf Community Deaf Children Frustrated with Family Communication Revisited:I would like to revisit that issue laid out by "deafness.about.com" website by Jamie Berke on December 9, 2008. I responded to that topic.I believe it is important that we focus on getting the community educated about our choices and how they can work with us. I simply ask that the bridge be open between t...
Higher Education Language Education Wed, Jun 24 2009

~~~ GDNN DEBUTS ON JULY 7, 2009! ~~~
Show Me Deaf Community Deaf Images Press ReleaseFrom: Deaf Images - June 20, 2009DEAF IMAGES INTRODUCES GLOBAL DEAF NETWORK NEWS ON JULY 7, 2009 AT 7 PM!ST. LOUIS, Mo. - June 20, 2009 - A new digital video news service will debut on July 7, 2009 at 7 p.m. (central time) for deaf, hard of hearing and hearing people with ASL capabilities. Deaf Images recently developed a format for delivery ...
Media Sat, Jun 20 2009

ASL BICENTENNIAL 1816-2016: 200 YEARS OF ASL CELEBRATION!
Show Me Deaf Community ASL IS THE "OFFICIAL LANGUAGE" OF THE DEAF COMMUNITY!The humble beginnings of ASL is when the monks as a commitment to silence developed and used sign language. It was derived into the use of FSL. This is how and why Laurent Clerc used it and brought it to the new world. It was August 22, 1816. It will soon be 200 years of ASL Celebration! Let's designate Augus...
Language Culture Wed, Jun 17 2009

DO DEAF HAVE "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES" SYNDROME?
Show Me Deaf Community DO DEAF HAVE "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES" SYNDROME?I am beginning to notice a trend these days about deaf getting cochlear implanted for wrong reasons. Is it part of "Keeping up with the Jones" syndrome?Often times, the society can be materialistic, competitive, and unhappy. The neighbors tend to compete up by having their lawns manicured, new sporty cars in garages...
Tech Tue, Jun 16 2009

LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL??? IS IT???
Show Me Deaf Community Knowing today (June 14, 2009) is the Flag Day! It is time to remember the Old Glory and its humble beginnings. Betsy Ross made the flag and the rest was the history.Many times, I gaze upon the Old Glory to say the pledge and at many events, I stand up to go with the national anthem. I am bothered sometimes when it says, "Liberty and Justice for all". Does it r...
Sun, Jun 14 2009

ARE DEAF SUFFERING FROM LACK OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES?
Show Me Deaf Community Give or take! A deaf person will be committed to hospitalization for mental health issues. What are the statistics? It is untold and underreported everywhere from the sea to the shining sea. Are there support services for deaf patients? What programs are working for deaf needing mental health services?This picture above is a puzzle being put together but some piec...
Audism Sat, Jun 13 2009

A Letter About St. Joe Principal and her 50 years of abuses
Show Me Deaf Community Click on the letter above to enable yourself to read it.This letter is self explainatory. This is a document proving in my recent video, "The Tools of Audism" where some punishment were executed among many deaf children in the 50 years of her management of oral school. Many former students told me about what the principal did to scores of poor deaf children.When the...
Language Art and Storytelling Education Tech Culture Fri, Jun 12 2009

The Ten Commandments of Deaf Culture
Show Me Deaf Community 1. You should not put hearing culture above Deaf Culture;2. You shall not lose eye contact when communicating with a Deaf person;3. You shall communicate in sign language at all times;4. You shall not be the Deaf person’s sign language instructor;5. You shall not be the Deaf person’s English grammar teacher;6. You shall not be the Deaf person’s speech therapist;7. You...
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, Jun 11 2009

The Tools of Audism...
Show Me Deaf Community This commentary is about what audists used as tools of audism to intimidate deaf children and adults in the 19th and 20th century. It might be happening in the 21st century. It stresses on the need of better leadership, better advocacy and better education to improve the needs of deaf community.
Audism Wed, Jun 10 2009

BACK TO FUTURE: VEDITZ ENVISIONED THE WORLD OF VIDEOPHONES!
Show Me Deaf Community When I researched on Veditz for my upcoming video project, I got goose pimples when I saw George Veditz's letter to AG Bell. It felt like going back 95 years to his time and see Veditz and Bell debating.The letter showed how the deaf community refused to support Bell and his Volta Bureau. See his letter dated on February 10, 1915.George even hit the nail right on its...
Tech Tue, Jun 02 2009

AG BELL HAS NO INTEGRITY AT ALL!
Show Me Deaf Community In my response to AFA about AG Bell's Integrity????, AG BELL lost his integrity when he stole Meucci's telephone invention. He lied and he cheated. He wrote articles and letters condemning deaf community and ASL. He always argued with Edward Miner Gallaudet about choice of communication mode. It was Victorian times that influenced Bell to think above women. ...
Language Culture Tue, Jun 02 2009

THANK YOU, MARCELLA M. MEYER FOR DEAF ADVOCACY!
Show Me Deaf Community Marcella Meyer, then Executive Director, GLAD was giving a donation to help RTR and Paul Kiel, then President of RTR (Round Table of Representatives) thanked her for her inspiration and leadership during the Deaf Awareness Week and RTR's 20th Anniversary (April 1987)Thank you, Marcella M. Meyer for your leadership. I have learned a lot from you while growing up and l...
Culture Sun, May 31 2009

Are VR Counselors forcing deaf clients to be implanted?
Show Me Deaf Community Are VR Counselors forcing deaf clients to be implanted? This is a serious matter that needs to be discussed. After what is happening with Wisconsin, you can see how Rep. Cullen mentioned about if implanted, you get job. This is how VR tells its clients across the country. We need to stop them and scold them for practicing audism. If it is true that VR was tel...
Media Audism Tech Legal Thu, May 21 2009

~ PAUL'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH AUDISM ~
Show Me Deaf Community Paul tells about his personal experience with audism as growing up in school, work, family and community.
Audism Thu, May 21 2009

AUDISM CAUSES DEAF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
Show Me Deaf Community This video is a narrative about what Paul says about audism causing deaf mental health problems. Carl Shroeder hit the nail right when it came to being "realistic" about your identity.
Audism Wed, May 20 2009

MY MESSAGE TO DEAF ORAL SCHOOL SUPPORTERS - SHAME ON YOU!
Show Me Deaf Community Paul Kiel was at CID as part of national protest against the Volta Bureau on April 3, 2009. It was "to call attention to the denial of linguistic and human rights of Deaf citizens and to highlight how the Volta Bureau/AG Bell Association has worked to perpetuate the denial of these rights." See the link from PRWeb (Press Release Newswire) at [link] I came acr...
Audism Sun, May 10 2009

~~~~~A MOTHER'S DAY TRIBUTE TO JANE HOWE KIEL~~~~~
Show Me Deaf Community Since Mother's Day is approaching this Sunday, I thought it is appropriate time for me to dedicate my b/vlog to my mother, Jane Howe Kiel. She was my best friend and like a big sister to me instead of being mother, but she was my biological mother. She was born Jane Vivian Howe on January 7, 1929. Throughout her life, she loves drama, music and playing tennis or b...
Language Art and Storytelling Education Fri, May 08 2009
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MENTAL HEALTH DAY AT STATE CAPITOL
Show Me Deaf Community It was a beautiful morning on Tuesday, April 21, 2009. I took a 128 mile trip from St. Louis to Jefferson City. The state capitol was situated on the bank of the Missouri River. It was a nice day as the sun was shining. You can see this picture I took while walking to the capitol. The flowers, plants and trees were ready to bloom. The warm air wafting across the p...
Legal Culture Tue, May 05 2009

CREATOR OF DEAF HOLOCAUST: A.G. BELL
Show Me Deaf Community Excerpted from St. Louis Deaf Advocate (Volume XXIX, Number 1, January/February 1996.FUTURE SHOCK: DEAF HOLOCAUST - An Editorial by Paul KielHolocaust is a destruction of life and is known as a form of genocide. The elimination of deafness is a typical of holocaust. Deaf children locally and nationally are the victims of holocaust being done by the medical professi...
Audism Education Tech Culture Thu, Apr 16 2009

Deaf Can Live, Learn and Lead...
Show Me Deaf Community Where is the truth in advertising? Can we say that hearing people have been making decisions for over 100 years that harms the deaf community?What was Laurent Clerc thinking in his journal near the end of his time? See it in my upcoming blog.What was Robert McGregor thinking when he established NAD in 1880?What was George Veditz thinking when he focused on AG Bell’s e...
Audism Tech Culture Tue, Apr 14 2009

No such thing as reverse audism....
Show Me Deaf Community Suffice to say, I do not agree with comments about reverse audism. There is no such thing and it does NOT exist. We do use reverse psychology at times in some situations.reverse psychology
Audism Culture Sat, Apr 11 2009

WHERE IS THE BELL PLAQUE?
Show Me Deaf Community Remember the recent issue about removing that plaque from the dorm. Where is it at?a. trashb. melted into something (recycling)c. put in a safe to protect itd. hanging on the wall on third floor ( Audiology Dept ) at NTIDWhich answer is correct?
Higher Education Wed, Apr 08 2009

THANK YOU AMY COHEN EFRON FOR THE TRUTH!
Show Me Deaf Community From Amy's blog (deafeyeseeit.com) about "AG BELL Infamous Telegram to NBC"**It is a proof of audism at work even before the word was coined. The ripple effect is happening around the world. It is helping break the shackles of audism. This is as result of 129 years of audism.I am so glad that the truth is shining light on the dark side of AG Bell and its cronies.It ...
Audism Sun, Apr 05 2009

AFA Ceremony at GSLAD (St. Louis, MO)
Show Me Deaf Community The A.F.A. Ceremony was held at GSLAD Friday evening, April 3, 2009. Paul Kiel introduced the audience about the AFA and its mission. Paul gave a brief history of the blue ribbon and how it originated in the Nazi Germany.The following people in the picture are Louise Fabbio, Trudy Miller, Paul Kiel, Nina Wilson, Carolyn McMillion, Joe Falgier, Michelle Doyle and...
Audism Culture Sun, Apr 05 2009

ORALISM IS A FALSE FACADE FOR AUDISM!
Show Me Deaf Community Like it or not, AG Bell is indeed a Public Enemy #1! I would like to respond to Miss Kat's blog. I saw your blog. I can understand how naive you can be. I grew up in oral envrionment until I saw sign language. I had gone to many presentations for oral school. They made a lot of money using me in their presentations. I was on television, in newspapers, magazines and...
Audism Sat, Apr 04 2009

DMH's Program Tonight Bombed!
Show Me Deaf Community DMH's Program Tonight Bombed!Tonight's program, " An Open Community Forum: The Future of Mental Health Services for the Deaf/HH Presented by Stephanie Winslow, Director for Deaf and Multicultural ServicesMissouri Department of Mental Health" was bombed. It did not produce anything new. It only is same old old stuff with some changes like window dressing.Her presentat...
Audism Education Legal Fri, Apr 03 2009

ST. LOUIS IS RECOGNIZED AS THE CAPITAL OF AUDISM.
Show Me Deaf Community Greetings to the folks in blog and vlog land:As a result of new interest in AFA (Audism Free America), I have decided to enlighten this matter with local schools that practice audism for decades. We have tried to request changes and put them on the right track. Yet, it is the hearing people who continue to be selfish, stubborn and disrespectful.Today, we viisited th...
Audism Education Culture Tue, Mar 31 2009

INVITATION: AUDISM FREE AMERICA - APRIL 3, 2009 7 to 9 pm...
Show Me Deaf Community INVITATION: AUDISM FREE AMERICA - APRIL 3, 2009 7 to 9 pm at GSLADFree poster: [link] are invited to join us on Friday, April 3, 2009 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at GSLAD.I am asking every leader, friends, interpreters and deaf community at large to join me in applauding Audism Free America and its mission. Please use free poster/postcard to promote the new organizati...
Language Audism Culture Fri, Mar 27 2009

DMH FAILS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF DEAF PATIENTS!
Show Me Deaf Community According to DMH's website, Director Keith Schafer (pictured above) mentioned that if there are any abuses and neglect, we are to report any to DMH or by calling the Department's Consumer Affairs Office toll free at 1-800-364-9687. We do need to have someone to investigate DMH administration for its failure to meet the needs of deaf patients. There are ongoing ab...
Audism Legal Sat, Mar 14 2009
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A LETTER FROM DMH IGNORING OUR PLEAS!
Show Me Deaf Community This letter is an example of how audistic hearing people are. It is very paternalizing and still ignorant of our rights in mental health services.The Commission is not being honest about having a strong and unwavering interest in better serving all Missourians. The history of DMH has a proven POOR track record with the Deaf community at large.They did have meeting l...
Language Audism Legal Culture Wed, Feb 18 2009

WHY DO I GET PUNISHED FOR TELLING TRUTH?
Show Me Deaf Community It is ironic how people are behaving towards me when I spoke the truth. I was referring to the poor delivery services provided by Missouri Department of Mental Health. I have been getting cold shoulders from some people at DMH. I was frank and blunt about what I thought of Department of Mental Health.I did get some nasty messages on my blog site that shows a proof...
Culture Wed, Feb 18 2009

COLUMBUS COLONY IS AN INTERESTING AND GOOD CONCEPT FOR DEAF...
Show Me Deaf Community While going through my album, I remembered these pictures as if it was yesterday. Nope, that was almost 30 years ago. It was interesting experience working with the groups and I am glad to see it still thriving today. Let me show you a few pictures. It was October 1980 when I was hired to manage Columbus Colony Housing. When I arrived on the colony, I was fascina...
Culture Sun, Feb 15 2009

AUDISM AT SOCIAL SERVICES...
Show Me Deaf Community The quotes in this picture were from TRULY DEDICATED DEAF ACTIVISTS - "The fundraising has existed for many years. But you have never alloted a fair share of the fund to the deaf community to fulfill their needs. A social service agency to be run by the deaf themselves!!!" The hearing man in that picture responded that "there were many agencies which can help you!!...
Audism Sat, Feb 07 2009

AUDISM AT WORK: CASE 5 - "I'D LIKE TO BE PART OF THE TEAM!"
Show Me Deaf Community AUDISM AT WORK: CASE 5 - " I'D LIKE TO BE PART OF THE TEAM!" **NOTE: This is about the court and lawsuits that I went through. It was from February 17, 1994 to October 4, 1999. It was tough experience dealing with audists at work. There were many things left out in the legal process. I repeatedly told my attorneys to consult with NCLD. (National Center of Law and...
Audism Tech Legal Sat, Jan 31 2009

CONFLICT OF INTEREST FOR DMH TO HIRE A TERP?
Show Me Deaf Community This picture on left shows Stephanie Winslow monitoring the video work. She is in blue shirt and is associated with Sign Language Specialists. It was taken on January 28, 2009 (today). The website is at https://www.signlanguagespecialists.com. She has been working there before "stealing" the DMH position for deaf. We already told DMH to hire a deaf person - not a...
Audism Legal Wed, Jan 28 2009

Paul's Commentary: DMH and Missouri Deaf Community 2009
Show Me Deaf Community This commentary is about the state of services for the Deaf by Department of Mental Health in the state of Missouri. Their services are poor and almost nil for any deaf patient.
Legal Wed, Jan 28 2009

DMH successfully pacifies the deaf patients, professionals...
Show Me Deaf Community DMH successfully pacifies the deaf patients, professionals and the community!This rings true! This is what Missouri Department of Mental Health has been doing. This is how and why they gleefully let Steve Hamerdinger out the door. Steve Hamerdinger did work very hard to bring the real needed services to Missouri.Nope! DMH refused to honor Missouri Deaf Community'...
Language Education Culture Sun, Jan 25 2009

Will Governor Nixon replace the audists at Missouri...
Show Me Deaf Community Will Governor Nixon replace the audists at Missouri Department of Mental Health please?As of today, Governor Nixon is now managing our state. I am congratulating him for starting today as the new Governor of Missouri. I did vote for him and I am ready to call him with my request. I wonder what his choice will be for Director of Missouri Department of Mental Health. ...
Audism Culture Mon, Jan 12 2009

DMH IS NOT BEING HONEST WITH THE MISSOURI DEAF COMMUNITY!
Show Me Deaf Community DMH IS NOT BEING HONEST WITH THE MISSOURI DEAF COMMUNITY!(Department of Mental Health)It is like S.O.S.D.D. with DMH as we approach in the new year! (Same old shit different day).DMH will continue to lie to us and still play the shell game!No matter how many surveys and how much more baloney they will serve us!It is merely an excuse to burn more trees and this is NO...
Audism Legal Sun, Jan 11 2009

DMH (Dept. of Mental Health) is a disgrace to the Missouri...
Show Me Deaf Community DMH (Dept. of Mental Health) is a disgrace to the Missouri Deaf Community!Recently, I got some referrals about some families and children needing mental health services. It is a major embarrassment having to tell them either go to DMH or to a private program that lacks support services for Deaf. They were looking for a therapist who are able to use ASL. They are...
Language Audism Culture Tue, Jan 06 2009

SHAME ON THERESA BULGER, AN AUDIST!!!
Show Me Deaf Community Ugh! Ms. Bulger has sunk to new low using a dead person's story to make profit from. She ought to be ashamed of herself for being such an audist! She showed her true colors in her egoist article by New York magazine. She uses lies and deceit to say deaf children are prisoners of silence... That is patronizing and demeaning to deaf children across the world.I do n...
Media Audism Mon, Dec 22 2008

DEAF SANTA
Show Me Deaf Community See Deaf Santa! He is signing to you! Happy Holidays!
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, Dec 15 2008

A LETTER TO REP. SARA LAMPE: SUICIDE: A LONELY JOURNEY TO...
Show Me Deaf Community SUICIDE: A LONELY JOURNEY TO THE DARK SIDEHonorable Representative Sara Lampe:(Editor's Note: Missouri State Representative - Sara Lampe is planning some kind of investigation into this matter.)This is an appreciation note to let you know that I am pleased that you are taking the time to look into matters concerning the deaf consumers of mental health services. It ...
Audism Education Legal Mon, Dec 15 2008

MY IP RELAY DID STUPID THING TODAY!!!!!!
Show Me Deaf Community I want to express my disappointment, disatisfication and disgust at MY IP RELAY. They did something stupid this morning! I was making a call to answer survey questions to be paid. The agent did a dumb thing... RO80211F - she fucked up the call when she was going to transfer to another agent... and this one - RO8212F did not follow up and hang up the call. How ...
Tech Mon, Dec 01 2008

FUTURE SHOCK: DEAF HOLOCAUST
Show Me Deaf Community Holocaust is a destruction of life and is known as a form of genocide.  The elimination of deafness is a typical of holocaust.   Deaf children locally and nationally (and internationally) are the victims of holocaust being done by the medical profession and the schools that promote cochlear implanting.  The deaf children are becoming the vanishing breed and the deaf l...
Audism Culture Sat, Nov 22 2008

Burrell Behavorial Health Services not meeting the Deaf...
Show Me Deaf Community Mr. Todd Schaible, CEO and President :todd.schaible@coxhealth.comBurrell Behavorial Health1300 Bradford ParkwaySpringfield, MO 65804Dear Mr. Schaible:It has come to my attention that there are issues at Burrell Behavorial Health. There has been lack of equal communication access and lack of professional mental health services for the deaf. The former and current ...
Language Audism Culture Thu, Nov 06 2008

LETTER TO THE CEO OF COX HEALTH/BURRELL BEHAVORIAL HEALTH...
Show Me Deaf Community To: Mr. Robert H. Bezanson, President and CEO of CoxHealth: (his picture is enclosed above.)This is to inform you of a former patient of yours that you are CEO of CoxHealth. Speaking of your affiliate a.k.a. Burrell Behavorial Health located in Springfield, Missouri, it is in a problematic stage. It is a mental health crisis for the Deaf community of Springfield, Mi...
Audism Legal Wed, Nov 05 2008

DISPLEASURE WITH CURRENT STAFFING AT DMH
Show Me Deaf Community To whom it may concern at MH Commission:*Note: This e-mail was sent to MH Commission at MHCommission@dmh.mo.gov - The board consists of the following, (Phillip McClendon, Ron DIttemore, Beth Viviano, Patricia Bolster, Kathy Carter, David Vlach, and Joann LeyKam)I am expressing displeasure with the current events at Missouri Department of Mental Health. They have not...
Language Audism Culture Tue, Nov 04 2008

MISSOURI DEAF COMMUNITY SUFFERS FROM COLONIALISM...
Show Me Deaf Community MISSOURI DEAF COMMUNITY SUFFERS FROM COLONIALISM...With yesterday's MoAD's Presentation: In Search of Deafhood workshop, I have come to realize what was wrong with the Missouri Deaf Community. It is now clear and bright that we are suffering from colonialism. This is a new meaning and an eye-opening one! It is how and why some hearing people are behaving towards us...
Audism Culture Sun, Nov 02 2008