Deaf Tea Time

DBC: Restrategize Counterattack On AGB
Deaf Tea Time Revisit the original mission of promoting ASL for Babies and Children and away from oralism.
Language Audism Education Tech Fri, Jul 04 2008 hide this blog

DBC: A Parallel To Our American History
Deaf Tea Time In honor of our July 4th celebration, an offer of an anaology of a parallel in history of DBC to the American Revolutionary era.
Art and Storytelling Education Culture Fri, Jul 04 2008 hide this blog

Pssst! AGB Is Very Afraid!
Deaf Tea Time Powerful message behind AGB's request to close off the walkway between DBC's hotel and AGB's Marriott hotel.
Culture Thu, Jun 26 2008 hide this blog

A Septic Tank Misadventure
Deaf Tea Time A CODA indirectly assisted my mother in a rescue of a septic tank misadventure.
Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, Jun 23 2008 hide this blog

Communication Barrier Or Parenting Style?
Deaf Tea Time Jamie Burke's post about teenage CODAs and their communication barrier with their deaf parents prompted me to vlog about the differences between the topic and parenting style.
Language Culture Mon, Jun 09 2008 hide this blog

CI/ASL & Culturally Deaf "Divided" By Values, Not By Labels
Deaf Tea Time An attempt to distinguish between the two groups to justify DeafSide and to dismantle the misconception that there is a controversy on DeafRead because of DeafSide and/or CI posts/blogs.
Language Tech Culture Mon, May 05 2008 hide this blog

DeafSide Due To A Divided DeafRead?
Deaf Tea Time An analogy using my students as an example to make a case in point the title above.
Language Education Culture Mon, Apr 28 2008 hide this blog

DeafSide: Thanks, Tayler
Deaf Tea Time Sending sincere thanks to Tayler Mayer for departing his ideology of what DeafRead should be and starting up an aggregator. We need our own space, and he felt us.
Language Tech Culture Sun, Apr 27 2008 hide this blog

Thumbs UP
Deaf Tea Time "Sweet Nothing In My Ear" has my double thumbs UPs. Well made and very wise decision not to include into the movie "the winner." The message of the story is the family needs to stay together for the sake of the child. A parent shouldn't make a decision based on their own fears. Dan Grisham was grieving for the hearing baby he once had and Laura Grisham was scared of ...
Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, Apr 21 2008 hide this blog

MM Has It Right!
Deaf Tea Time CNN featured an article on tonight's airing of "Sweet Nothing In My Ear" with MM, Noah Valencia, and Jeff Daniels, a well known actor with a long list of blockbuster movies. In this article, MM's character is 100% ASL - a challenge for MM who finally admits to being not an ASL user. She admits she speaks, lip-reads, and signs in English to deaf people. Pretty much the...
Media Sun, Apr 20 2008 hide this blog

TV Storywriters' Challenge
Deaf Tea Time Tonight's Cold Case TV show left me cold! I issued a challenge to the storywriters! I want to add what I did not say in my vlog...the deaf actors did a GREAT job. I especially liked the part where Carlos communicated by his SK with the detectives. I was thrilled to see Bob Hillerman, Andy's dad - hadn't seen him in ages. I forgot the name of the traveling theatrical g...
Media Art and Storytelling Mon, Mar 31 2008 hide this blog

A Visit With Firemen
Deaf Tea Time A breakdown in communication led to a visit with local men in blue!
Wed, Mar 19 2008 hide this blog

Braille and ASL Analogous
Deaf Tea Time The parallel history of Braille and ASL and it's impact upon a commentor on Amy's blog offered a strong evidence of how attitudes of the parents of the blind and of the deaf are similar.
Language Audism Education Culture Tue, Mar 18 2008 hide this blog

Sponsorship Donor?? What's UP With That??!!
Deaf Tea Time Guess who is on the sponsorship donor list with AGBell??
Higher Education Audism Wed, Feb 06 2008 hide this blog

Bob's House: Was or Was Not??
Deaf Tea Time PepsiCo's Enable site on Bob's House had a small but key word that we all probably missed which may explain why most of us did noy catch Bob's House commerical during the Super Bowl game.
Media Sun, Feb 03 2008 hide this blog

Discord on DeafRead
Deaf Tea Time There has been a definite discord among readers, vloggers, and bloggers lately. Why?
Culture Wed, Jan 30 2008 hide this blog

Validity of Great Schools Website Scores
Deaf Tea Time Burke Outspoken posted on her blog information using the Great Schools website's standardized test scores to compare the performance levels of the schools for the deaf. Great Schools site is not a valid source to measure performance levels when comparing state to state - it is valid only for in-state comparsion because states vary in their benchmarks.
Education Mon, Jan 21 2008 hide this blog

Two Chuckles Of The Day
Deaf Tea Time Two true stories in the life of a deaf man in the 1950s.
Art and Storytelling Fri, Jan 04 2008 hide this blog

Lawsuit Against Deaf School Valid?
Deaf Tea Time Does the lawsuit against the school for the deaf have merit? The lawsuit itself is quite perplexing for single key reason: IEP.
Education Legal Wed, Dec 26 2007 hide this blog

Mischievous KODAs II
Deaf Tea Time A sequel to JohnABC's vlog on his mischievous KODAs.Here is the picture of Wes with the black eye and buzz cut after I took him to the hair salon. The indentation around his neck was under his chin and is not visible from camera view. You can see the bald spot around his ear from the hair scissors.
Mon, Nov 19 2007 hide this blog

Deaf Education: David VS Goliath
Deaf Tea Time Swedes were a David who managed to infilerate a Goliath of a system for their deaf citizens. Although Americans are a little bigger in our David but our Goliath is even bigger, the American David still could win!
Language Education Tech Thu, Nov 08 2007 hide this blog

MSSD 7: Dangers of Dorm Environment
Deaf Tea Time To those who lived in residential school dorms, the MSSD 7 controversy is a familiar story. The familiar story being the downside of dorm living. How structure and environment of a dorm setting lend itself to this kind of occurrences. Read more about this where a mother posted on behalf of her son who was one of the MSSD 7.
Education Culture Sat, Oct 13 2007 hide this blog

Bahl Juror: Valid or Invalid Rationale?
Deaf Tea Time A juror who was on Bahl's jury entered a post on Mishka Zena's blog to present his side of legal view of Bahl's charge of "Obstruction of legal process." There is a hot debate whether this juror presented a valid rationale
Media Audism Legal Fri, Sep 21 2007 hide this blog

Traffic Pull-Over Protocol: How To Stay Safe
Deaf Tea Time Bahl got pulled over, ended up getting beaten up, and thrown in jail. He got charged for obstruction and was rendered guilty as charged. How should we do to avoid all that when you're pulled over by a cop?
Language Audism Legal Sat, Sep 15 2007 hide this blog

Crab Theory Rears Its Ugly Head Again
Deaf Tea Time A first-time deaf author gets crab - dragged by another deaf person....again. We could do well without this kind of thing, thank you, Allison Kaftan. That was not merely a book critique but a harsh squash on Egbert's endeavor as an author simply because he bypassed the publishing house route. So, Allison, can you rise to the challenge and write a bestseller?? Can you [...]
Audism Sun, Aug 19 2007 hide this blog

AGBell: Feeling Threatened?
Deaf Tea Time Come on out and rise to the challenge! AGBell used the hotel management to remove the demonstration from the hotel premises which led to some ugly confrontations thanks to an unbecoming hotel manager. Management used as a shield.
Audism Sun, Jul 29 2007 hide this blog

Was The Hotel Manager Part Of AGBell's Grand Plan?
Deaf Tea Time Did AGBell send the manager as a part of their grand plan to demonstrate to their conference registrants that ASL causes communication barriers and causes problems?
Audism Sun, Jul 29 2007 hide this blog

X-Men: Analogies of Deaf Children Of Hearing Parents To...
Deaf Tea Time Late at night one night, I tucked in bed and channel-surfed the TV for a decent program to watch. I came across the channel showing the second installment of X-Men movie and I opted for it since I had not seen that movie in a while. I came in at the part where Xavier's group was in the house of one of the mutants to confront the parents about their son. Wolverine was [...]
Language Audism Culture Wed, Jul 25 2007 hide this blog

Amy: Mother of CI Children
Deaf Tea Time There has been a huge discussion on Deafread between Amy, a mother of two CI children and the readers and b/vloggers. It sparked on John Egbert's blog and spilled into Barb DiGiovanni and Moi's v/blog. Amy has been locking horns with many ASL advocates. Amy is a mother who is against using ASL for her two CI sons. She cited that ASL would delay their English [...]
Media Language Audism Education Legal Culture Fri, Jul 20 2007 hide this blog

Reasons For Non-Signing CODAs
Deaf Tea Time Are the explanations for their CODAs not signing justified?
Language Wed, Jul 18 2007 hide this blog

CODA-Owned ASL
Deaf Tea Time Garthicism. My son's ASL linguisticism.
Language Wed, Jul 18 2007 hide this blog

Which Type Is Your CODA?
Deaf Tea Time Which type of CODA is your child? Each type is shaped by several facets of familial and relationship dynamics of the deaf parent-hearing child.
Language Culture Tue, Jul 17 2007 hide this blog

Paper and Pen
Deaf Tea Time Carrying a pad of paper and a pen solve our communication dilemmas when we go out in the public without resorting to using our KODAs.
Fri, Jul 06 2007 hide this blog

Misperception: Superiority Of The Hearing
Deaf Tea Time Some deaf adults become perpetual victims due to their own misperceptions that the hearing are superior to them.
Audism Thu, Jul 05 2007 hide this blog

Should Gallaudet Drop University Status?
Deaf Tea Time Is the university status doing Gallaudet more harm than good? It is time to be honest about Gallaudet's decline as Anne Marie said. Mishka Zena cited recruitment issues which may affect Gallaudet's decline to which I heartily agree.
Higher Education Sat, Jun 30 2007 hide this blog

Why Are Deaf Organizations Crumbling?
Deaf Tea Time One word: Egoism. A spinoff to Teri Sentelle's vlog on giving credit due.
Tue, Jun 26 2007 hide this blog

Idioms: Does ASL Have Idioms?
Deaf Tea Time DeafMom3 listed 20 idioms. Let's sign them out and see if we use them in our ASL?
Language Tue, Jun 26 2007 hide this blog

Is CI Surgery Immortal And Non-Consensual?
Deaf Tea Time How fascinating. In an article in today's CNN news, it says routine infant circumcision is on the decline because it is "immortal and non-consensual" as well as being deemed medically unnecessary. Yet, many parents don't think twice about cochlear implanting their infants when CI surgery is far more dangerous than a routine circumcision??!! Is CI "medically [...]
Tue, Jun 19 2007 hide this blog

Do Hearing People Lack In Common Sense?
Deaf Tea Time Upon viewing pictures of baby dolphin, born to a deaf dolphin, being bottlefed, I asked myself this question: Do hearing people truly lack in common sense?? I interpreted those pictures as audistic attitude towards deaf animals just as is true with deaf people. By all accounts, the new deaf dolphin mother was healthy and able to parent.
Audism Sat, Jun 16 2007 hide this blog

Der Sankt's Challege: ASL Translation Of His Story
Deaf Tea Time Der Sankt issued a challenge for us to translate his written ASL; DE suggested for us to do vlogs on the ASL translation of Der Sankt's story and post links on his blog. Here is mine!(Yes, this should be posted as a link on Der Sankt's blog but since viewings tend to diminish after the first day, I figured the links to the vlogs might be overlooked if posted after the [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Wed, Jun 13 2007 hide this blog

DODs, DOHs and the System: The Bigger Picture
Deaf Tea Time How the system creates the invisible barrier between DODs and DOHs.
Audism Culture Tue, Jun 05 2007 hide this blog

Color ASL Sign Origin: SEE, Unmarked, Or ???
Deaf Tea Time Color signs have first letter assigned to them...quite SEE-like, yet they did not orginiate from SEE...so, how did they get assigned with first letters???
Language Sun, Jun 03 2007 hide this blog

SEE-Like Signs in ASL; Y-System or S-System?
Deaf Tea Time What to do with the SEE-like signs that we use in our daily ASL?
Language Sat, Jun 02 2007 hide this blog

Joey and DE's "Bigger Picture:" How? Who? When? Where?
Deaf Tea Time Joey and DE's vlogs on "Bigger Picture" is about systematic audism; while they both have my support, their vlogs left me wondering about a few things...
Language Audism Thu, May 31 2007 hide this blog

OSD/OSB: What Cultural Conflicts?
Deaf Tea Time Sharing my experience as a student of a residential school of the deaf and blind. The opposition at OSD cites cultural conflicts.
Language Audism Education Culture Tue, May 22 2007 hide this blog

Golden Thumb Rule
Deaf Tea Time Golden rule for any v/bloggers on giving credit due to others when borrowing parts of their work.
Culture Mon, May 21 2007 hide this blog

Clarification On "Deaf Canadians' Predicament."
Deaf Tea Time A vlog to clarify several things that I observed responses from commentors that came across as misunderstanding or misperception. A commentor suggested that I could have used better words and I agreed with him. I take accountability in what I presented in the first vlog. My intentions in the first vlog were simple and I did not expect these reactions from some [...]
Legal Culture Wed, May 16 2007 hide this blog

My Canadian Blogger Pal's Intake on Deaf Canadians'...
Deaf Tea Time Hi Cy,I hadn't followed this controversy surrounding the language mode of the cochlear implant surgery recipients. Interestingly, I have a friend who is a CI recipient. She was not forced to drop visual language and that was not what she used anyway. She was raised an oralist. Yes, our health care system is on the socialist principle. Indeed it complicates the process [...]
Media Language Audism Sat, May 12 2007 hide this blog

Deaf Canadians' Predicament
Deaf Tea Time Deaf Canadians are caught in a crossfire thanks to their governmental system that differs from that in the U.S.
Language Audism Education Sat, May 12 2007 hide this blog

Worst ASL vLog
Deaf Tea Time Rising to Oscar's challege to make the worst ASL vlog.
Culture Sat, May 12 2007 hide this blog