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Genetics
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Audism Art and Storytelling Mon, Dec 03 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

TINNITUS CALL CENTRE
MM's BLOGALOG "Hi y'all, hope you are having a nice day... You are now connected to the Tinnitus Helpine..Please press:-(#1) For Buzzing noises(#2) For loud howling(#3) For assorted whistles(#4) For Bells(#5) For shreiks(#6) For Whale noise(#7) For White Noise(#8) For assorted strangled cat miaows(#9) For Ear Plugs(#0) To go through it all over again....
Sun, Dec 02 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Unimpressed with Deaf film Makers ?
MM's BLOGALOG THIS article in the UK's Guardian paper, seems to be critical of the deaf approach to film-making and in deaf awareness/breaking down barriers ! E.G. "Take Children of a Lesser God, one of the best-known "deaf" films but one that was made by the hearing director Mark Medoff. It just leaves me cold. Its lead, for which actress Marlee Matlin won an Oscar in 1987, is an...
Audism Fri, Nov 30 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf versus deaf (Refuting Carl's response !)
MM's BLOGALOG Carl, is other wise a very educated and respected member of the online ASL community, but the fact he tends to respond like all sign users do and refuse access to his responses tends to just validate what I was saying on my other blog. The never-ending drive to divorce one sector of deaf people from another by the mode they use. Carl, did NOT read the blog properly...
Culture Wed, Nov 28 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Awareness Versus Culture
MM's BLOGALOG Deaf Culture versus Deaf awarenessIs this the real battle in our respective Deaf V deaf worlds ? We can all read the 'happy deaf' in the clubs and cultural area, extolling the virtues of their community, and inventing a new 'buzz' term every week or a new label to highlight the fact they aren't a spent force and are still around. We can also read academic papers on ...
Language Education Tech Culture Tue, Nov 27 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The RNID Cymru Conference (View from the Fringe) End Bit.
MM's BLOGALOG The Afternoon Sessions, all about Audiology:1st item for the afternoon, was devoted to Audiology issues. There was actually a very high number of people there from Welsh Audiology Dept's, but none actually speaking. The first speaker was Scottish, Della Henry, who gave a very insightive (Is that a word !), view of the Scottish approach to Audiology for those with h...
Audism Culture Sat, Nov 24 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

RNID Cymru conference (Fringe View), Part Two.
MM's BLOGALOG Question time, to the Panel: MM asked the RNID Typetalk manager the first question of the day, "Is Typetalk not obsolete now ? MM stated "Few deaf people he knew ever used TT any more and had adopted either online messaging or primarily mobile texting, which not only was more suitable for the deaf, but, was far faster and effective than was TT, and the previous dis...
Audism Culture Sat, Nov 24 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The RNID (Cymru) Conference (A fringe view). Part ONE.
MM's BLOGALOG A view from the RNID Fringe (An overview of the 10th Anniversary Conference of RNID Cymru 22 November 2007).Intro: While awaiting the start of the days events with a coffee, MM saw Jackie Ballard walk in, and immediately approached her with regards to asking some questions. Ms Ballard was alone and surprised, MM explained who he was and how he had delivered concerns...
Culture Sat, Nov 24 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The war is over....
MM's BLOGALOG For the anti-CI army anyway, but like those Japanese after WW2, there was still some who wouldn't believe it, even 20 years later...... The deaf activists against CI's (And some against those implanted), are killing the credibility off in the the deaf world. Increasingly they are seen as isolationists and scare-mongers, and let's face it, deaf people who who are only...
Tech Culture Fri, Nov 16 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Tipping the Scales
MM's BLOGALOG The decline and fall of British deaf charities.Once upon a time...... there was benevolence and charity, then, it was a cheap and cheerful way to salve your conscience while denying people basic rights to things like, food, shelter, work or recognition of existence. Then someone realized HEY ! there's money in this.... and a government think tank realized eureka !...
Culture Sun, Nov 11 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

One man lobby at the RNID
MM's BLOGALOG That was my message to the RNID yesterday,on the day of their annual AGM where it seems few if any deaf people were in evidence, and the AGM calculated to deter most of its reputed 35,000 members from attending, in fact if 5% of those had decided to attend, the building could not have accommodated them. I attended on the day traveling half-way across the country to ...
Audism Culture Sat, Oct 27 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The Deafhood Review
MM's BLOGALOG 'Understanding Deafhood' (P, Ladd, 2003, Multilingual Matters), Already a best-seller with a sign-using minority of deaf people, 'Understanding Deafhood', has evoked adoration and ridicule in equal abundance. "Back to the Future meets Pilgrim's Progress', and "The new deaf elite", are just some of the plaudits and responses attached to Mr Ladd's opus, "Take out th...
Sun, Oct 21 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Oh GOD (II)
MM's BLOGALOG Is this a CI I see before me ? out damned, and cultural adversary. Since G.O.D has back-tracked on her last blog re CI's, (And claiming divine support !), and we see other deaf bloggers leaping to their defence, is it not time the deaf community of sign language users, quit this pointless and never-ending opposition to CI and BAHA implantation ? It does seem mainly ...
Tue, Oct 16 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Oh God, not more bullshit from G.O.D !
MM's BLOGALOG As deaf.read is a democracy I trust they are going to allow this blog to respond to the complete falsification and disinformation to British deaf people being distributed by the GOD blog, which against my better judgment, but adherence to fair play, I give their addy/link to.Over the last 4 years this blog has concentrated on traversing American medical sites and posi...
Audism Culture Sun, Oct 14 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The RHI Archive
MM's BLOGALOG A quick peep into old British support group archives, thank goodness patronisation is dead...
Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, Oct 11 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Clouds over the UK
MM's BLOGALOG They are here, they are amongst us....Having been online and in the British deaf area of it for 4 years, I have come to the conclusion most are the British deaf version of the American rednecks, avid and dedicated supporters of culture and sign language, advocating it, and its ways like a moral crusade against any and all that raise issue with the way it is done. Dea...
Culture Mon, Oct 08 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Under Review
MM's BLOGALOG I wanted to respond to this blog in some length, after reading Joey's response to the blogger experiencing difficulty re Gallaudet, a personal Brit view if you like, I have to put a bit of a downer on the deafhood concept from my viewpoint, since deafhood is non-viable until those that espouse to believe in it, practice what it says, and few seem to. If you ask what ...
Culture Wed, Oct 03 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

MM unleashed on Parky
MM's BLOGALOG I often get critics when online and the usual questions and insults come in, so I dug this old blog out which perhaps explains the real MM a bit better.... who knows him better than me ?MM on Parkinsons show (Part one) Intro: "He's been called the deaf anti-christ, a valid excuse for oral euthanasia, and the cyber-deaf version of Salaman Rushdie, will you please welco...
Wed, Oct 03 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Testing....Testing
MM's BLOGALOG A poser for the British BSL user.. can YOU do this test designed for hearing people !
Culture Tue, Oct 02 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Happy Birthday
MM's BLOGALOG Hooray ! 35 years ago this week I became deaf to the world. It's not all been fun and deaf raves, and here are a few early memories of those border-line years and just after.... There are sadly those for whom unless you have followed every procedure and ruling they've laid down, will send you to that English city of Coventry which must be pretty crowded, and full [...]
Language Audism Tech Culture Tue, Sep 18 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

SiSi
MM's BLOGALOG British IBM research here is pioneering a BSL avatar option. Stil in infant stages it promises to open up a lot of access for the British sign user, questions asked already are, will it accommodate regional sign differences ? (Britain has at least 4 major variations), and will the deaf accept a 'norm' ? a 'media' sign form that is common throughout the UK? maybe [...]
Tech Sat, Sep 15 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

If I want, I will ASK !
MM's BLOGALOG What are deaf people's views in the UK on 'help' ? is this enablement or just continued dependency on hearing people ? Recently in parts of Wales (UK), Social Services have been going around deaf clubs urging older deaf to 'take help',not from the registered and official service set up they provide, but from agencies linked to charities and job-centres.When they [...]
Tue, Sep 11 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Descriptive representation:
MM's BLOGALOG Descriptive representation/passive representation or symbolic representation, it is the idea that those not in any minority area should be elected to represent minority interest groups, rather than the described identified area itself. According to this idea, an elected/employed, charity/business should resemble a representative sample of the people they are meant [...]
Language Audism Sun, Sep 09 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Who Cares ?
MM's BLOGALOG Grumpy Old Deafies (Addy on right),raised issue regarding British (deaf), parliamentary input via 'Umbrella groups (such as the UKCoD). Let's look at the 'Benefits YOUR deaf group can gain by joining them:-UKCoD Benefits of AffiliationThe benefits your organization will receive include: (1) Regular mailings and emails on current issues affecting the sector (2) [...]
Language Audism Tech Legal Fri, Aug 31 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

STOP THE RNID
MM's BLOGALOG In October 2007,two new HEARING executives take over the RNID DEAF support group ! Blog, and lobby against corporate begging for deaf people, and jobs for hearing people ONLY ! Blog against patronization, blog against apathetic HoH members, blog against, CHARITY ! This groups SACKED a deaf and signing CEO for fighting for BSL and deaf rights, now, lobby against [...]
Audism Tech Culture Sun, Aug 26 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

STOP THIS INVASION OF PRIVACY !
MM's BLOGALOG Stop THIS SITE from hacking into deaf sites, publishing deaf discussions and people's ID's, and flooding them with adverts NOW ! Or forget 'Deaf Space' exists any longer.
Tech Fri, Aug 24 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

I insist !
MM's BLOGALOG Top 20 MM demands from the RNID.(1) Recognition, that deaf people count.(2) That the RNID pro-actively starts a job training scheme (Corporate and other), so that the wholly unacceptable image of the RNID as a job-for-life, for someone who can hear, is removed. (Fact: The RNID has less than 11% people with any hearing loss at all).(3) That the media team at the RNID [...]
Audism Culture Sun, Aug 19 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

London's Big Ben is Accessible
MM's BLOGALOG Big Ben is silent at present while work is being undertaken for it to comply with the British DDA law, here's an artists impression of the finished access... Times Square next ?
Tech Legal Tue, Aug 14 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Jane's Story (II)
MM's BLOGALOG [Transcript continues of Jane's Story, here she tells us about her ongoing experience of being forced to learn an alternative communication]"We had the results of your ENT examination... and we need you to sign on for a course of Lip-reading, and a literacy course before we can further offer you a position here.. It's up to you." "I needed the work badly," said [...]
Language Audism Tech Sun, Aug 12 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Jane's Story....
MM's BLOGALOG Jane (Her real name witheld to protect her identity), is 23, but looks nearer 50, she puffs anxiously on a cigarette and pinches her hands obsessively, sometimes until blood flows....she tells us in her own words, of what drove her first to join the RNID, and then fleeing afterwards to a refuge for her own sanity...... It's not a fairy tale, and some may find it [...]
Language Audism Fri, Aug 10 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The RNID BLOG-IN...
MM's BLOGALOG Fight them with laughs...
Audism Thu, Aug 09 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

An Access law too far ?
MM's BLOGALOG It seems the Americans have the same issues of the disability act failing to come up with the goods, Brits had this too, after the initial hoo-haa and declaration it was found to have more opt-outs than a sieve had holes in. In the UK I was the sole deaf person at the actual launch of the Disability act campaign in Manchester (England), and know the final draft and [...]
Audism Legal Sun, Aug 05 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

State of the (UK) Union
MM's BLOGALOG DeafRead readers may have noticed a number of UK blogs recently on the issues of these two leading UK charities for the Deaf and HoH. Those delving deeper will have read of heated and opposing debates as to how best to approach the diminishing involvement of deaf people in both.The RNID is THE group, there is no bones about this, with an income of £50m per year [...]
Language Audism Culture Thu, Aug 02 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Which way ?
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New Faces
MM's BLOGALOG The latest recruits to the UK's leading charity for the deaf and HoH.First Jackie Ballard,failed hearing politician,thinks voters are thick, because they didn't vote for her, now the new CEO, comes from another charity the RSPCA, a british charity for dog and cat protection, "I will", she said "ensure all deaf people get their basic rights, and of course, each will be [...]
Audism Culture Mon, Jul 30 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

First British Vouchers for the HoH
MM's BLOGALOG This is the first draft of a new 'Voucher' system to be introduced by the National Health Services of Great Britain.Those with hearing loss will first be assessed as usual by their local ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat), Dept at their nearest Hospital,and then given a 'Voucher' to be 'cashed' by the RNID Charity who will then issue them with new (free) hearing aids. [...]
Audism Culture Sat, Jul 28 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

I'm H.A.P.P.Y....
MM's BLOGALOG The overall impression of many militant deaf, is that they are happy no cures exist for their deafness, and opposed to research into it. A recent blog extolled the virtue "there will always be deaf people and signed languages". This is generally accompanied by YES ! from other cultural deaf waving assent in the air. It seems on the face of it, a 'celebration' of [...]
Audism Culture Tue, Jul 24 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Not Again !
MM's BLOGALOG It would appear, there is a select Little band of dedicated deaf people, whose sole purpose in life, is to boldly seek out ANY suggestion, CI's are lethal and bad for deaf people, as we read here, we are assailed with yet another dubious 'link'. Part of the reason why deaf people are not progressing as fast as they would like, is current obsessions like this.It [...]
Fri, Jul 20 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Access ALL areas ?
MM's BLOGALOG Deaf Pagan Crossroads has asked we blog/vblog on what access means to us all, but I stand confused at the request.The end of his blog states: PLEASE NOTE - because some of our judges may be hearing individuals who are not skilled in sign language (much like the general population we are trying to educate), we ask that if possible vloggers please try to either caption [...]
Tue, Jul 17 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Zip it..
MM's BLOGALOG This blog, I would like to respond to, as it raises serious issues of the battle between free speech, and outright abuse.I've never seen the point of profanity. If you can't make a point without it, that says more about YOUR shortcomings than anyone else's. The time-worn false accusation by these people who use it, is you are' blocking free speech' but it doesn't [...]
Tech Sun, Jul 15 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Some Myths about Deafhood
MM's BLOGALOG We read constantly in America about Deafhood, and particularly in reference to Gallaudet,and many blogs are full of the 'journey into deafhood', often quoting the capital D, as a primary Identifier of those undertaking on this journey, but first, let's hear from the man himself (Paddy Ladd):QUOTE: Deafhood is not about defining who is or is not culturally deaf, or [...]
Culture Sat, Jul 07 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

MM's UK BLOG
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Language Tech Culture Tue, Jul 03 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

We're all working on the Railroad...
MM's BLOGALOG Gerald Corbett (No relation to Ronnie, he's not that funny).British deaf meet their new saviour.... after replacing John Low who has gone to greener pastures telling charities how to be more charitable, and how to up their fringe benefits. Gerald Corbett is most notable for once being the chief executive of Railtrack, and just appointed CEO of the UK's largest deaf [...]
Tue, Jul 03 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

AMBER ALERT
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Higher Education Sun, Jul 01 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

For UK eyes only...
MM's BLOGALOG It's on the vblog (My first using sign alone), there's no titling and no allusion to BSL either ! The intro is explanatory. Basically I am suggesting deaf and others in the UK unite to produce campaigning DVD's to include via sign language (Or any other medium we use), as a collective please for rights and access..... so we end up not anonymous people via an e-mail [...]
Language Tue, Jun 26 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Sack this Idiot !
MM's BLOGALOG Straight from the horses mouth (More the back end), we got this little gem from an UK minister.We recognise the importance of lip reading and sign language for the deaf and hard of hearing. Lip reading and sign language are eligible for LSC funding but do not form part of the Government's "Skills for Life" definition of provision commonly referred to as 'basic skills' [...]
Language Fri, Jun 22 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

This is the Reality...
MM's BLOGALOG Dinah Lord, Executive Producer See Hear 13 June 2007There are indeed changes to See Hear currently under way. The aim of these changes is to increase the quality and range of public service provision to the license paying deaf and hard of hearing viewer, both those who have BSL as a first language and define themselves as culturally Deaf and those who do not. These [...]
Tech Culture Sun, Jun 17 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Fifth Column or Progression ?
MM's BLOGALOG "Only when hearing people see and understand our culture and language will they identify and accept us properly..." one comment I read recently on deaf.read.However this can rapidly collapse as a viable point when people acquire a deafness. Then, the clarification on 'what is deaf ?' becomes more and more obscure doesn't it ? Does 'culture' need to be re-appraised [...]
Language Culture Sun, Jun 17 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Surely ?
MM's BLOGALOG How not to cover an important issue like a 'national' web site for UK deaf people. Deaf people online in the UK must be totally gob-smacked at the SEE HEAR showing today regarding this british site for the deaf, run by Mr Savva with an iron hand Stalin would have been envious of, who initiated wave after wave of bannings of all it's leading lights and original [...]
Sat, Jun 16 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Rosetta stone II
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Art and Storytelling Tue, Jun 12 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post