i711.com : Deaf News This Week

Kevin McLeod - Working With A Dog
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Most deaf and hard of hearing people don't have a hearing ear dog. I never had one myself, because I never...
Fri, Dec 19 2008

Chris Kaftan - Ridin' Her Way to the Top
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Talk about the perfect rookie year. Winning your first three professional races on motocross and winning...
Fri, Dec 19 2008

Karina Chupina - A Change Wanted In Japan - Part 2
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Welcome back to our virtual journey into Japan! In the last article Mihoko and I discussed employment...
Wed, Dec 03 2008

Chris Kaftan - Deaf Leatherheads
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Last weekend I watched the George Clooney film, Leatherheads. The film itself is a comedy about the rise of professional...
Wed, Dec 03 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - Shh, I'm Reading the Radio
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Nov. 4 was a night of firsts. Among them was the first live captioned radio...
Wed, Nov 26 2008

Kevin McLeod - Five Questions You Must Ask
i711.com : Deaf News This Week When you go to a job interview, you fully expect to answer a lot of questions about yourself...
Mon, Nov 17 2008

Karina Chupina - A Change Wanted In Japan - Part 1
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Curious about Japan, the second most technologically advanced country in the world after...
Mon, Nov 17 2008

Chris Kaftan - A Keen Idea
i711.com : Deaf News This Week It took a trip to a museum to convince Catharine McNally that something needed to...
Mon, Nov 17 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - Touch Here for Service
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Room service used to be an oxymoron for deaf and hard of hearing customers. If technology being used at the...
Tue, Oct 28 2008

Chris Kaftan - Facebook the New Everybody Thing
i711.com : Deaf News This Week I joined Facebook in July 2007 at the insistence of a friend. Since then, I haven't looked back...
Mon, Oct 06 2008

Karina Chupina - Three days of Global Communication
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said: "The only true luxury I know is a luxury of communication." For deaf...
Wed, Oct 01 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - Signing On
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Cell phones have just gotten more accessible now that people can communicate on them via sign language...
Thu, Sep 18 2008

Karina Chupina - "Wedding bells" ring for international...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week It is blazingly hot. Sun shines onto the narrow curvy streets and piazzas, flickers on the red-tiled roofs of the small...
Wed, Sep 10 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - Tongue Wagging
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Meet Anton, an animatronic tongue. It's made of soft silicone and was created by scientists at the University of...
Wed, Aug 27 2008

Kevin McLeod - Building a Career
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Lori Fuller is a deaf woman who works as a counselor for the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation in...
Wed, Aug 13 2008

Karina Chupina - A Look at Education and Employment in...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week In the last article we explored some challenges and specificities of the educational system for people with hearing loss...
Thu, Jul 31 2008

Kevin McLeod - Take the Money and Learn
i711.com : Deaf News This Week It used to be said that when America catches a cold, the rest of the world gets the flu. That was a common...
Wed, Jul 23 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - Plugging in to Rehab
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Did you know that the iPod is a great tool for CI rehab? This is one of the many things I learned...
Fri, Jul 18 2008

Karina Chupina - A Look at Education and Employment...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week It is interesting to see the way German hard of hearing and deaf people reflect on their education...
Fri, Jul 11 2008

Kevin McLeod - Nancy Fittro and Melaleuca
i711.com : Deaf News This Week In times past, direct marketing and multi-level-marketing programs developed an uncertain reputation...
Thu, Jul 03 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - NetFlicks Deaf Consumers
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Another option now exists for online movie rentals. Netflix just released the Netflix Player by Roku...
Wed, Jun 18 2008

Chris Kaftan - Stormin' the Internet
i711.com : Deaf News This Week I have a confession: I have a man-crush. After you read this, you'll understand why...
Wed, Jun 18 2008

Karina Chupina - Genetics of Deafness, Volunteering,...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week In our last column, Vanessa Migliosi from Italy told us about her activities in the genetic research of deafness...
Thu, Jun 05 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - TAP Your Phone
i711.com : Deaf News This Week More than a year after iPhone's release, its popularity has yet to wane...
Wed, May 28 2008

Kevin McLeod - Inclusiveness is the Win-Win Solution
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Diversity and choice have always been hot topics in the deaf community. The debate raises deep questions...
Wed, May 28 2008

Chris Kaftan - The First 'Year'
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Visualize this: you are a young teenager growing up in a largely rural area where you are pretty much the only...
Wed, May 21 2008

Karina Chupina - Genetics of Deafness, Volunteering,...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week She is widely known as a person with many hats and as a globe trotter. Her deaf friends, when expressing her name in sign language...
Fri, May 16 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - Insight Cinema's Insight
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Last week, Insight Cinema announced its closure. The non-profit organization -which has been part of i711.com's community...
Wed, May 07 2008

Chris Kaftan - Defending His Turf
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Germany has its own deaf professional soccer player. So does England. And Canada. And Jamaica...
Wed, Apr 30 2008

Karina Chupina - Making the "Impossible Possible" in Vietnam
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Good networking often brings wonder and surprise, as I found out not long ago...
Wed, Apr 23 2008

Kevin McLeod - The Employment Program that Works
i711.com : Deaf News This Week As America slides toward a major recession, employment among deaf and hard of hearing workers is certain to suffer...
Wed, Apr 16 2008

Chris Kaftan - Lance Allred: The First Deaf NBA Player
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Considering what Lance Allred went through to get where he is now, the rest of his...
Wed, Apr 09 2008

Karina Chupina - Living as a young person with hearing loss...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week In my last article I had a discussion with my friend Ulli about the lives of deaf and hard of hearing...
Thu, Apr 03 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - Time For Something Light and Fluffy
i711.com : Deaf News This Week You're deep in sleep when all of a sudden your bed vibrates or your light flashes...
Wed, Mar 26 2008

Kevin McLeod - Deaf Education Has a Long Way to Go
i711.com : Deaf News This Week The U.S. Department of Education spends quite a lot of money every year for a variety of reasons...
Wed, Mar 19 2008

Karina Chupina - Living as a young person with a hearing...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Discussing German hard of hearing and deaf communities can be time-consuming...
Thu, Mar 13 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - Disability and Technology: Do the...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Clinton, Obama and McCain. Right now, the Presidential campaign has been narrowed down to these three...
Wed, Mar 05 2008

Chris Kaftan - New Deaf Athletic Organization Promises...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week For a long time, one man selected national deaf prep champions at schools for the deaf: Barry Strassler of DeafDigest...
Wed, Mar 05 2008

Karina Chupina - Deaf Tours in Philippines Attract Tourists...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Recently, as I boarded a Turkish Airlines plane, I was pleasantly surprised to see sign language interpreters projected on the...
Wed, Feb 20 2008

Trudy Suggs - The Splendid Challenges of Giving
i711.com : Deaf News This Week In the February issue of the Discovering Deaf Worlds newsletter, Christy Smith and Dave Justice write about...
Wed, Feb 20 2008

Chris Kaftan - The New Marlee
i711.com : Deaf News This Week What is behind Marlee Matlin's sudden career surge and spotlight redirection...
Wed, Feb 13 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - Take Control of Your Captions
i711.com : Deaf News This Week My brother-in-law has something I covet: a 40-inch flat screen digital TV...
Wed, Feb 13 2008

Kevin McLeod - The DeafRead Effect
i711.com : Deaf News This Week There's been an interesting development in the deaf blogosphere over the past year...
Thu, Feb 07 2008

Trudy Suggs - A Thumbs Up for District One Hospital
i711.com : Deaf News This Week It was a question that lingered in many people's minds, including ours...
Thu, Jan 31 2008

Karina Chupina - IFHOH and its advocacy for hearing loss...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Back in 1997 when I was a US high school student, I was fortunate enough to personally meet Howard "Rocky" Stone...
Wed, Jan 30 2008

Lisa A. Goldstein - A Different Kind of FM
i711.com : Deaf News This Week My husband is an avid fan of Car Talk, a National Public Radio (NPR) call-in radio show...
Wed, Jan 23 2008

Chris Kaftan - The Five Iron Men: A Blueprint for Today’s...
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Those well versed in Gallaudet sports lore know the story of the five Iron Men...
Wed, Jan 23 2008

Kevin McLeod - Learning Leadership From the Pros
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Reliable numbers on deaf and hard of hearing unemployment are hard to come by...
Wed, Jan 16 2008

Trudy Suggs - Biting the Hand that Feeds Them
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Last summer, a colleague at a video relay services (VRS) provider contacted me to get names of local key contacts...
Wed, Jan 09 2008

Karina Chupina - Considering Hearing Loss In Canada
i711.com : Deaf News This Week In my international work, I have regularly met with Ruth Warick, General Secretary of the International Federation of Hard of Hearing People...
Wed, Jan 09 2008