Deaf Progressivism

A Violation of Human Rights Re: Forcing A Deaf Child to...
Deaf Progressivism Historically, women and girls have faced forced laws that tell them what to do with their bodies against their will which is a violation of human rights. The sad part is that it is still happening today here in America that the judge ordered the father to force his daughter to wear a cochlear implant at all waking hours. She already has a cochlear implant since 14 mon...
Tue, May 11 2010

The Confused Group of Misled People regarding the CA Bill...
Deaf Progressivism Seeing and reading about a confused group of misled people whose agenda is to oppose and fight against those who are opposed to the CA bill of 2072 is not an issue here. But here's my beef: rather than acting as honest political opponents, they are spinning a web of lies and are attempting to distort the facts to the media. Really, shame on them for not being res...
Mon, Apr 19 2010

Do Your Finger Clicking Good!
Deaf Progressivism (subtitled)
Sun, Jan 17 2010
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A Tribute to Pasty Purr of of rottenpotatoenews
Deaf Progressivism A subtitled picture analogy between Potatohood and Deafhood on how they were frequently misunderstood with full of myths. It is time to peel back the truth for the new year!
Sun, Jan 03 2010

Behind The Scene at Broadway for the Helen Keller...
Deaf Progressivism (subtitled) Barb DiGi shares her disappointment about what really happened behind the scene during auditioning for the Helen Keller understudy role. She believes it is a lame excuse for not hiring a Deaf girl for the role since they claimed that they couldn't find a qualified one which is completely hogwash. She saw it in her own eyes and knew the true story that it ...
Fri, Dec 18 2009

What Does Deafhood Mean To You? (Part II of II)
Deaf Progressivism There are 17 Deaf vloggers (we had 21 in part I so that is 38 so far) sharing their points of views on what Deafhood means to them. These Deaf vloggers in part I and part II have embraced Deafhood as a part of their lives in a positive light. It is surely enlightening to watch!
Wed, Nov 18 2009
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What Should Make DVTV/DeafRead A Part of the Deaf Community?
Deaf Progressivism This is not exactly a summary but more of organizing my afterthoughts of the vlog: I have struggled with the concept that DVTV, DeafRead, and other Deaf blog aggregators are a part of the Deaf Community. A Community means shared experiences and interest that also involve supporting for a common cause. To call it a Deaf community, it has to be a construct model. We ca...
Mon, Oct 26 2009
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Audism in Public Schools
Deaf Progressivism Watch this first: Watch this last: Summary: When I viewed the Pantene ad, it gave me a flashback of several incidents of audism that I went through while growing up in a public school just like that girl had experienced. Looking back, I recalled being ridiculed and snickered when my name was called to give a dancing performance similar to a mixture...
Mon, Oct 19 2009

What Does Deafhood Mean To You? (Part I of II)
Deaf Progressivism Here you will see 21 Deaf vloggers' responses on what Deafhood means to them. As you can see, Deafhood is a positive term to many vloggers who know the true meaning of Deafhood which is based on their individual experiences. There are more vloggers coming up in part II!
Sun, Oct 11 2009

How to Facilitate Deaf Children To Become Bilingual...
Deaf Progressivism Deaf children need to be empowered to advocate for themselves to be able to list reasons why bilingualism is important and beneficial. Aspects are discussed with details based on research outcomes from Lambert, Tucker, Pearl and Genesee. This vlog is good for adults who can explain to Deaf children why it is important to have ASL as a first language and English secon...
Tue, Aug 04 2009

Which Side of the Partisan Political Pundit Brain Fits You?
Deaf Progressivism Coming from the book, "America, A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction", Jon Stewart offers satire views on politics. In one part of the book, it talks about how a function of the brain is being evolved when discussing politics. Only one area has been adapted to make it a more Deaf-centric for the left side of the brain when calling all ethnic groups "Americans" her...
Tue, Jun 16 2009

Defamation, Exploitation and Copyright Issues
Deaf Progressivism Here is the copyright policy taken from Seesmic: Seesmic Copyright Policy "Seesmic (“Seesmic”) respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at [link] Seesmic will respond expeditiously to ...
Tue, May 26 2009

Achievements of A.V. That Can Apply to Deaf Children
Deaf Progressivism How A.V. reaches high achievement by using this approach that can help Deaf children to fully develop as a whole child. A great advice for parents and professionals of Deaf children! 6:29 mins. Play Quicktime
Sun, May 17 2009

What is Politically Correct when Describing Deaf Children...
Deaf Progressivism 1:26 minutes, subtitled
Thu, Apr 30 2009
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Audists or Audism Behavior? (Part II of II)
Deaf Progressivism Thoughts (not entirely a summary but reflections): As we are in the process of discussing the meaning of audism and to describe, not necessarily to label with haste, the common situations that many Deaf people have experienced because of their little or lack of deafness, situations arise such as thinking that Deaf people shouldn’t drive and shouldn’t be a head of an ...
Thu, Apr 09 2009

Audists or Audism Behavior? (Part I of II)
Deaf Progressivism This is a part one of two vlog to discuss about my experiences encountering several ignorant hearing people who made statements that exhibit audism behavior. Discussion takes place by looking at situations on how we are to deal with these kinds of audism behavior and how are we to describe situations by identifying the behavior rather than labeling the individuals aud...
Sun, Apr 05 2009
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Evidence of Audism Behavior from AGB and Ways to Combat...
Deaf Progressivism Summary: This vlog focuses on the evidence of audism behavior by AGBell and how we all have agreed to stop audism but may have different ideas to do it. It is so important to recognize that there is no one right way to do it as it requires multi-approaches to combat audism. The past and recent actions of AG Bell who pressured the media about not showing sign languag...
Sat, Apr 04 2009
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Make Yourself Heard to AG Bell! How? Check this out!
Deaf Progressivism Go to this website to have access to express your thoughts to AG Bell thanks to The Center for Disability Rights. There you will see a pre-written letter that you can simply add, edit or revise using your own words and click the sent button that will either email or fax to AG Bell office. Here is my sample paragraph in red of my own words to make it more personal. The...
Fri, Apr 03 2009

Is Audism a Legitimate Word? And Gallaudet, isn't this an...
Deaf Progressivism It is true that the word, audism, has not yet been found in most dictionaries (both books or online) except for Urban Dictionary (not exactly a credible dictionary though) that talks about an "audist establishment". It even includes the word, audism, that defines "the descrimination of the hard-of-hearing. Instead of color descrimination prevalent in schools, audism h...
Fri, Apr 03 2009

Awesome Events of Deaf Rochester Film Festival (Part IV of...
Deaf Progressivism Highlights described at DRFF for Sunday, March 29, 2009. -Children's Movies -Workshop by Julie Dameron -Signs of Time by Bob Panara
Tue, Mar 24 2009
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Exciting Day at Deaf Rochester Film Festival for Saturday,...
Deaf Progressivism
Sat, Mar 21 2009
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Deaf Rochester Film Festival Highlights for 3/27/09 (Part...
Deaf Progressivism It is my regret that the subtitles are not ready but it will be posted next time.
Sat, Mar 21 2009

Jr. Deaf Rochester Film Festival
Deaf Progressivism Quicktime For the first time, this event is focused on younger audience to encourage showing their film works. Special appearance will be made by Braam Jordaan who won the award in the best computer animation category and created signing characters in his animation. There will be some of the Deaf students film work shown from several schools for the Deaf such as T...
Fri, Mar 20 2009

Getting the Facts Straight!
Deaf Progressivism I just couldn't believe in my own eyes how it all became twisted from what I read at the comment section at Amy's blog then at Mishka Zena's blog accusing a member of DBC, Tami, who happens to be hearing and has been an excellent Deaf children's advocate, that she became an oppressor. Oh please! What is even unfair is that none of you can't judge for yourself without ...
Thu, Mar 19 2009

A Deaf boy's life saved at Rochester School for the Deaf
Deaf Progressivism Please take a moment to recognize our hero, Patti Cane, who saved a little Deaf boy's life at Rochester School for the Deaf (RSD) during lunchtime. She is pictured on the left side. Patti is a Deaf teaching assistant at RSD for more than a decade. In this video (it is not captioned but there is a written article next to it), you will see her sharing her reaction an...
Thu, Mar 12 2009

The Deaf Rochester Film Festival Events
Deaf Progressivism Play Quicktime. Events for the upcoming Deaf Rochester Film Festival are explained in this subtitled vlog. See this link, [link] for more information and to purchase tickets. YouTube viewers, click here. (coming soon)
Sun, Mar 08 2009

My Film Production Experiences in Making "The Red Riding...
Deaf Progressivism Play Quicktime YouTube viewers, click here My film making experiences turned out positive when making "The Red Riding Deafhood". The purpose and goals making this movie are explained in this vlog. It is a fictional film that involves eight Deaf children but in reality, there are such individuals and agencies promoting the absence of ASL in some Deaf children's lives....
Sun, Mar 08 2009

The beast, the project and the shirt
Deaf Progressivism Play Quicktime For YouTube viewers, click here Summary: Thanks to your enlightening emails and requests for a comeback as time has been a very challenging task to find! Thanks LaRonda for your wonderful poem as it gave me a kick to vlog the updates. I have been using my productive energy to hopefully make positive changes and impact that concern me. Not that vlog...
Mon, Mar 02 2009

Deaf Hope Tea Party 2008: Femtors (Part 2b)
Deaf Progressivism Quicktime transcript-like summary: This video talks about how we, as Deaf women, were impacted from influential Deaf women. My mother, Anna Marie, explains her experiences growing up in an oral school and in a non-signing home environment. Her inspirational role model was her neighbor, Mary Tanner, who happens to be Deaf and uses ASL. Anna Marie became fascinate...
Thu, Nov 13 2008

DBC's concerns about HEAR Indiana's Conference
Deaf Progressivism Part I Quicktime Youtube link, click here (Part I) Part II Quicktime Youtube link, click here (Part II) On behalf of Deaf Bilingual Coalition (DBC) which is a coalition that serves the mission to promote basic human right of all Deaf infants and young children to have access to language and cognitive development through American Sign Language and how ASL makes sig...
Fri, Nov 07 2008

Our Future First Deaf Bilingual President of U.S.!
Deaf Progressivism Quicktime My son, Anthony Victor (A.V.), was assigned by his teacher to present as John McCain although we are Obama supporters. Many people who saw A.V.'s presentation thought he has the potential. A.V. announced to me that he wants to become a lawyer to fight against those who ban ASL and even considered to be a president of U.S. someday. YouTube coming up soon.
Thu, Nov 06 2008

Deaf Hope Tea Party 2008: Femtors (Part 2a)
Deaf Progressivism Quicktime Julie Rems-Smario shares her fondness about Nancy Popovick during the Deaf Hope Tea Party: ‘Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’--The Power of Femtorship. What is femtorship exactly? According to Deaf Hope, it is about Deaf women and the power of receiving, as well as providing mentorship. Julie eloquently adds her experience of femtorship with Nancy an...
Wed, Nov 05 2008

Only if Bathroom Walls Could Sign
Deaf Progressivism Quicktime Here is a video clip that I have bumped into several well known commenters in the bathroom. Something about California and bathrooms!! This is a fun vlog featuring Steve Longo, Sheri Mutti, Bethany R. and David Reynolds during the celebration of the International Day of Sign Language rights at Sacramento, California. David made a good point how a restroom...
Wed, Oct 29 2008

Deaf Hope Tea Party: Part I
Deaf Progressivism Quicktime On September 27, 2008, Deaf Hope Tea Party prepared lavishly with treats that attracted over 90 people to attend for a good cause. It is an annual charity event to sponsor Deaf domestic violence victims and survivors. For more information and donation, please click here. This is part I of III.
Wed, Oct 29 2008

Looking for Ways to Heal
Deaf Progressivism Quicktime Summary: When my mother and I got invited to celebrate "femtorship" which means the power of receiving, as well as providing, mentorship with Deaf women at the Deaf Hope Tea Party, I was excited and honored to return once again but this time with my mother. When I found out that Ben Vess was also invited as a MC, I wasn't too crazy about the idea. I had...
Wed, Oct 29 2008

Celebrating Int'l Day of Sign Languages at Sacramento
Deaf Progressivism It was an inspirational moment for me and many others (over 700) who attended the Int'l Day of Sign Language, Californians for ASL on September 26, 2008. I was very impressed about the organization of the successful event with a variety of Deaf speakers and performers. I wished I could tape it all but to find out that the battery life was limited and with no recharger in hand, this was as much as I could get.
Thu, Oct 09 2008

Positive Energy for Deaf Babies
Deaf Progressivism Quicktime My 9 year old daughter, Brianna, who is Deaf wanted to do a vlog right after seeing the inspiration about Jack Barr's story and attending DBC Nevada picnic last weekend. She explains how it is crucial to focus on positive energies to make ourselves more productive for the future of Deaf babies.
Wed, Jul 30 2008

Deafhood and DBC
Deaf Progressivism Quicktime For DeafVideo.tv users, click here Please note that I am speaking based on my personal views, not as a representative for DBC. (pointing toward the tree): See my kids playing in the park while I get to do my vlog! It is my only time that I could do it. I would like to take the time to explain my views about Deafhood. Last year, I did not learn what Dea...
Wed, Jul 23 2008

Signing Out (Speaking Out)
Deaf Progressivism Transcript could not be provided this time due to time constraint. Play QuickTime I am addressing my concern how expressing my individual views got twisted and distorted to the point that it has been reported to my workplace. I was concerned about the oppression among Deaf babies/children that they were denied complete access to language when practicing Oralism. I ...
Fri, Jul 18 2008

People like My Mother Could Not Be a Part of the...
Deaf Progressivism Play Quicktime Transcript: Both DeafRead (DR) and DeafVillage (DV) are providing as blog aggregators. In America, having two or more competitive products are considered healthy and more likely to improve the quality. Yes, the style is different and so is the policy. Most of them get to accept blogs and vlogs that are Deaf related; however, what strikes me the most a...
Tue, Jun 17 2008

My 93-year-old Grandma’s Sorrow (open-captioned)
Deaf Progressivism For the first time ever, I am going to present my video interview using spoken English with my hearing grandmother aged 93. It comes with captions, of course. You may be shocked that I would do a vlog using spoken English but this is how I communicate with my grandmother. I grew up with my hearing grandparents using spoken English and with my Deaf family using ASL in ...
Thu, May 15 2008

I Am Against Oralism Because...
Deaf Progressivism Summary: Someone asked me if I were against oralists when I know s/he must have meant oralism because to be against oralists just because they can speak is outrageous! So my response to this modified question is, yes, I am against oralism but not spoken English. Let me share you that the term oralism to me is a stigma. It is associated with “force” for some even “abu...
Tue, May 06 2008

BI/CI Comparison? Why, sure! Deafhood Minions? Oh, Please!
Deaf Progressivism This Anti-Deafhood priest and minions dissed people who support Deafhood and I have to tell you how much I have laughed so hard when reading that I couldn’t even take them seriously. Ok, just mock us all you want but my views stand based on the facts coming from FDA and no one can dispute that. Why of course, getting BI and CI is for a completely different reason alt...
Sun, May 04 2008

Summary on Social and Identity Issues Re: AG Bell...
Deaf Progressivism Here is the summary of findings showing the outcomes on how former students feel about identity and social issues when experiencing inclusion education. Inclusive Education and Personal Development by Irene K. Leigh Thirty-four graduated participants who belonged to AG Bell and Oral Hearing Impaired Section (OHIS) took the questionnaire. 16 = deaf 12 = hearing-imp...
Fri, May 02 2008

AG Bell Participants Respond to a Survey on Social and...
Deaf Progressivism Survey results reflecting identity and social issues of former mainstream students who belong to AG Bell. Transcript coming soon..
Thu, May 01 2008

Thoughts on DeafSide
Deaf Progressivism Sharing my perspective on DeafSide and questions raised for you to share as well.
Wed, Apr 30 2008

What Does Male Masturbation Have to Do With It?
Deaf Progressivism Please don't take it too seriously or personally and don't shoot the messenger! While doing a research to browse for AVT, my eyebrow raised so high then I couldn't help but burst into laughter. Go on and see it for yourself. On the top of the page, the title was Auditory Verbal Therapy and it follows to this slogan, "What you need, when you need it". Under it, one o...
Wed, Apr 09 2008

Hearing Parents Can Learn ASL! How?
Deaf Progressivism One of the criticism about ASL as Deaf babies' first language is not made possible because 95% come from hearing parents. Actually, it is possible as long as there are services available. Today, it is slowly growing especially that schools for the Deaf that provide support in giving parents the opportunity to learn ASL and having the mentors visiting their homes. If y...
Sun, Apr 06 2008

Please Wake Up Moms and Dads who support AG Bell!
Deaf Progressivism This is a part two series in a response to those commentators who call themselves mom and another mom on Deaf Chipmunk's vlog. Portraying AG Bell in a positive light is like trying to sell a used car that has a history of multiple repairs to a buyer who is unaware of the car's problems. For this mom to claim that "whatever pent-up anger you hold toward your parents (...
Wed, Apr 02 2008

ASL Does Not Hinder Language Development!
Deaf Progressivism My blog post is in a response to Deaf Chipmunk's vlog on "AG Bell, Tear Down This Wall." Some of the commentators made great points but some of those clueless commentators calling themselves mom and another mom were flashing those so-called biased research claims that reinforced their way of thinking that "ASL hinders the development of good language development." ...
Mon, Mar 31 2008