The Deaf Child: A Mythology

06.09.01 – Yllag’s Westward Progress
The Deaf Child: A Mythology Posting the 69th clip with some rumination on Deaf Read and “video in internet”. The struggle over including audism in the guidelines is significant and illustrative. Diversity in the deaf community has led as a guiding spirit of DeafRead. There are struggles between “diversity” and “deaf-centrism”.  These two terms are chosen fo...
Sun, Jan 10 2010

06.08.09 – Back to the Monastery
The Deaf Child: A Mythology the 68th clip of the Deaf Child mythology. To find out what happened after Yllag met Siepee and the Young Adult, click away . . . Deaf Quote: Use Any to Reach God Myth Commentary: This clip is less metaphoric and more historic.  This comes closer to the end of the [...]
Wed, Jan 06 2010

06.07.01 – Priest Yllag
The Deaf Child: A Mythology The 67th clip of the Deaf Child mythology is posted for Alan Hurwitz who now assume the mantle of the presidency of Gallaudet University. With handwave of congratulations, I join the multitude of deaf and hearing people all over and especially people on the Kendall Green campus in showing heart-felt endorsements and support for Alan [...]
Sun, Jan 03 2010
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06.06.01 – The Confrontation
The Deaf Child: A Mythology ANNOUNCEMENT:  Change of plan in doing the myth in the internet.  72 clips from the second half of the myth will be posted with sparse commentaries and only one extra video of the deafhood question.  The work on video and commentary bogs down the momentum of the storytelling.  I want 2010 to be the year [...]
Sun, Jan 03 2010
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06.05.01 – The Anglais Presentation
The Deaf Child: A Mythology This 65th clip of the DC mythology is posted with hand-waving congratulations to Gallaudet University and its ASL/Deaf Studies department for reaching this historic milestone after years of hard work – inaugurating the Deaf Studies Digital Journal.  Click on the blue word to go to the websites.  I would like to discuss the implications of [...]
Fri, Nov 27 2009

06.04.01 – Approaching Anglais Plaza
The Deaf Child: A Mythology The 64th clip of the DC Mythology is FINALLY posted with congratulatory thanks to DCARA for hosting a vblog symposium on June 27th, 2009 and their excellent vlog on the speakers.  As days pass, I see more and more of the “ramifications” of the internet in making changes in humanity.  One world-wide example is the [...]
Sat, Oct 31 2009

06.03.01 - The Anglais Proposal
The Deaf Child: A Mythology This 63rd clip of the Deaf Child mythology is posted with a bow of our heads to a person for the second time, this time in the blessed memory of Carole Marie Joel Forest (Welsh).  She went away last Tuesday. During this solitary weekend inside my inner cave, I went back to the materials [...]
Mon, May 11 2009
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06.02.01 - Long Anticipated Reunion
The Deaf Child: A Mythology This 62nd clip incorporates stages of deafhood into the matrix of the DC mythology of a generic deaf child growing up into adulthood.  New inclusion here: a lil' English translation and the Deaf Child Matrix, which is a table of myth chapters, stages of deafhood, eras of deaf history, topics of deaf studies, and personal [...]
Tue, Apr 07 2009
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10.06.01 - Inside Volta Bureau
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 108th Clip (19 sec. long) - Special Edition with 1992 video of inside Volt Bureau, site of the first AFA demonstration - videos and photos of presidents of AGBAD, AGBell's personal books in the library, his deaf mother, Montessori on Mabel, among others. I was about to post 6.2 part of the myth when the AFA [...]
Mon, Apr 06 2009
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06.01.01 - The Plan for the Battle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 61st clip and the first of the 6th chapter, Anglais Plaza, also short and light on deaf history so I would like to discuss ASL literature here. What works are our classic ASL literature?  Sadly to type here, so little.  ASL literature has no meat with still only with short works: poems (songs), short stories, anecdotes, [...]
Mon, Mar 02 2009

05.15.01 - Checking Hein’s Progress
The Deaf Child: A Mythology The 60th clip, chapter five's last and short one (3.41 mins), has little connection to deaf history so I ll talk about something else.  What happened to DeafRead? Let me first begin this with the “second” DeafRead conference which occurred a year ago this month of February (Feb. 2) in San Francisco.  One year anniversary, yes.  [...]
Sat, Feb 28 2009

05.14.01 - Becoming a Master Teacher
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 59th clip. 3:36 minutes long. Total: 5:21:19 hours. This is for all of our deaf teachers, but this clip is dedicated to Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc, our first “Deaf Teacher”. More on them below in the deaf history commentary. Enjoy observing the situation of how the Deaf Child finally became a Master Teacher. [...]
Sun, Feb 01 2009

05.13.01 - At the First Deaf Congregation
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 58th clip: At the First Deaf Congregation. 4:12 minutes long. Total: 5:17:43 hours. This clip focuses on the earliest formation of a deaf community with its language and culture. In other words, what is the first official deaf gathering? the first deaf organization? or the first deaf club? Enjoy watching how the Deaf [...]
Sun, Jan 18 2009

05.12.01 - Selling True Hope
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 57th clip. Clip Title: Selling True Hope. 7:36 m. Total: 5:13:31 h. Here is the next clip of the Deaf Child mythology. I apologize to those who waited for the next installment. One of the reasons of the hiatus of posting clips is that I wanted to redo this part badly because it [...]
Sat, Jan 17 2009

05.11.01 - Wanting to be a Teacher
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 55th clip. 4:56 mins. Total: 5:09:53 hours. This Deaf Child nythology website continues to be delightfully revised. The deafhood question(s) is now signed out in ASL. A table of content is added on the side where viewers can click on each clip directly. This website is an original - a book in [...]
Sun, Oct 26 2008

05.10.01 - Meeting the First Deaf Author
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 55th clip. Title: Meeting the First Deaf Author. 5:35 minutes long. Total: 5:04:37 hours. A couple of milestones here. This clip denotes that this had passed the 5 hours long. And the first post with a SIGNED deaf history commentary here. Thanks to my dear friend, Tayler, due to the changes in [...]
Wed, Oct 15 2008

05.09.01 - Wondering About the Past
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 54th clip. Title: Wondering About the Past. 3:16 minutes long. Total: 4:56:01 hours. Finally, after several hours of cleaning up the codes, all the video clips of this myth now play inside their windows, rather than into another window. For those who prefer full screen, you could go to the [...]
Sun, Oct 12 2008

05.08.01 SM - The First Book
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 53rd clip - 3:15 m./4:55:19 h. This clip is posted in gratitude to Dr. Jean Andrews for being in the path of this myth. As a grant writer extraordinaire, she was able to secure federal grants for the Lamar University Deaf Studies doctoral program which enabled me to receive my doctorate degree [...]
Tue, Oct 07 2008

05.07.01 SM - Learning the First Sign
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 52nd clip - 8:20 m./4:52:04 h. Respecting the paramount importance of learning the first sign, this clip is posted for all deaf people, signers and not. Reams of paper can be written and tetra-bytes of video can be signed about the critical role acquiring sign language is for all deaf (and hearing) people. Let the metaphors from [...]
Mon, Sep 08 2008

05.06.01 SM - Meeting the Signing Deaf
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 51st clip - 5:27 m./4:43:54 h. This clip, about meeting the signing deaf for the FIRST time, is posted with cheering gratitudes to those people who vblogged and commented on deafhood. Deafhood is a concept that definitely will contribute to the continuing paradigm shifting of the Public (and Deaf) Mind on the understanding [...]
Sun, Aug 31 2008

05.05.01 SM Meeting Siepee
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 50th clip - 3:20 m./4:38 h. Since this is the 50th clip, let it be a time to pause for a little celebration and reflection. It has been a year ago last summer when the story-epic-myth began its next manifestation in the form of a blog - video, art, and words weaved into [...]
Wed, Aug 06 2008

For DBC in Milwaukee, A Marching Song!
The Deaf Child: A Mythology I am reposting this revised “marching” song I wrote last year when the DBC (before they were formed) led a protest at AGBell's summer conference on AVT in Virginia. This song was written and is now dedicated to DBC and their noble, honorable, and very important work for deaf children worldwide. Octopus Volt refers to [...]
Thu, Jun 26 2008

05.04.01 Siepee’s Monastery
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 49th clip - Title: Entering the Monastery - 6:01 m./4:35:17 h. This clip/post focuses on the world's first public (free) school for the deaf in Paris, France, known either as the INJS or the St. Jacques school. The formal name is, in English - the National Institution of the Deaf Youth. To view the [...]
Sat, Jun 21 2008

05.03.01 Siepee’s Monastery
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 48th clip - Title: Back to the Deaf Child - 6:30 m./4:29:16 h. This clip is posted with gratitude to my soul brother, eLiot Helman, who was my first “Aaron” voicing the myth for me in 1994 at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA. We first met at Gallaudet in 1981 when we performed together as [...]
Thu, Jun 12 2008

05.02.01 Siepee’s Monastery
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 47th Clip - Title: Discovering the Deaf Girls - (04:26 m. - 4:22:46 h.) This clip is posted with homage to Charles-Michel de l'Epee who created the first Deaf “sacred” space by establishing an educational institution critical in the nascence of sign languages, deaf culture, and deaf communities. It is important to note that he [...]
Sun, Jun 08 2008

05.01.01 Siepee’s Monastery
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 46th Clip - Title: Finding Monks - (04:03 mins - 4:18:20 hours) This first clip of chapter 5 is posted to give more recognition to Etienne de Fay, one of the earliest deaf teacher of the deaf in history. Even though the history of deaf education began in Spain in the 1500's, barring more discoveries [...]
Mon, May 12 2008

04.15.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 45th Clip - Title: Fleeing the Dark Side - 2:36 mins. This last short clip of Hein's Castle is posted with a pointing out to the deaf community about Daniel Plainview, a despicable hearing father in the new film “There Will Be Blood”, who mocked his son's proud Deafhood. The dark side [...]
Tue, May 06 2008

04.14.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 44th Clip - Title: Breakout from the Castle - (05:27 mins - 4:11:41 hours) Posting this second to last clip of chapter 4 with a brief message. We must never forget the crimes on deaf people from the past. Most information about those crimes is lost to time. With creative mythology, some [...]
Wed, Apr 30 2008

04.13.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 43rd Clip - Title: Final Surgical Experiment - (04:01 mins - 4:06:14 hours) Posted with hands forward out saluted open-palms good luck for another wrinkle in the transformation of DeafRead and related sites produced by the gray matter upthere and mousestrokes of taylorinfomedia. Now click away to view the final brutal surgical experiment done on the deaf [...]
Sun, Apr 27 2008

04.12.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 42nd Clip - Title: Signing Hands Swatted - (06:18 mins - 4:02:13 hours) Tired of cochlear implant topics and movie reviews? Here is a change of scenery. Click on to find out what happened to the Deaf Child after the second surgical experiment. A classic oral classroom scenario. Click here for YouTube if above [...]
Wed, Apr 23 2008

04.11.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 41st Clip - Title: The Second Experiment - (06:18 mins - 3:58:03 hours) This clip is posted in gratitude to Brian Malzkuhn who was instrumental in making it possible for me, in the spring of 1994, to teach a deaf history course at Ohlone College where the myth was used for the first time in a [...]
Mon, Apr 14 2008

04.10.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 40th Clip - Title: Selling False Hope - (04:30 mins - 3:51:45 hours) This clip is posted for those oral deaf people who “exclaim” about their speaking skills, needing to express “I can speak”. Signing deaf people usually don't do that, not needing to express “I can sign”. The spirit behind this clip, [...]
Tue, Apr 08 2008

04.09.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 39th Clip - Title: Behind Oralism's Facade - (05:35 mins - 3:47:15 hours) This post is for all deaf people who experienced oral classrooms and knew what was behind the facade of oralism in those schools. Sign language could not be suppressed. It is like if you try to move the light on [...]
Fri, Mar 28 2008

04.08.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 38th Clip - Title: Hein's First Experiment - (05:18 mins - 3:41:40 hours) Caution: Graphic ASL description of an experimental cure of deafness. Not for the faint-hearted. A picture included. This clip is posted in memory of those deaf people who needlessly suffered from painful experiments in the attempts by quacks, parents, scientists, and doctors from [...]
Sun, Mar 23 2008

04.07.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 36th Clip - Title: In Oral Classroom - (04:43 m. - 3:36:22 h.) Many deaf people, including myself, had experienced oral classrooms therefore this clip is posted in salutation to them. Enjoy observing the Deaf Child's first experience in an oral classroom. Click away . . . Click here for YouTube if above undownloadable or too slow. [...]
Sat, Mar 22 2008

04.06.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 36th Clip - Title: First Speech Lesson - (08:59 m. - 3:31:39 h.) This clip is posted in gratitude to the 1992 committee of the GUAA's Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund who granted funding for my airfare to Europe that summer. See here for this blog's first deaf history video clip of the oldest oral school [...]
Tue, Mar 18 2008

04.05.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 35th clip. Title: Meeting Dr. Hein. (04:41 m. - 3:22:40 h.) 2 photos below. 1 is of a large painting of the Father of German Oralism: Samuel Heinicke and this inspired the name-sign for Dr. Hein. Another one is of a painting of his school which existed in the 1800's until its destruction during World War [...]
Wed, Mar 05 2008

04.04.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 34th clip of DC myth. Clip Title: First Hearing Test. (03:52 m. - 3:17:59 h.) This clip is posted in joy to someone I just conversed with - who is following the myth and understanding the deep interplay of connections to everything Deaf this story entails. The more I ponder on this myth, the [...]
Wed, Feb 20 2008

04.03.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 33rd clip of DC myth - Clip Title: Into the Castle. (07:36 m. - 3:14:07 h.) This clip is posted with congratulations to Tayler and Jared for such a wonderful DR conference! I am seeing impacts DeafRead and the blogsphere are making on the deaf community. The Pepsi-AgBAD uproar and how the NAD response [...]
Tue, Feb 12 2008

04.02.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 32nd clip of DC myth - Clip Title: Return to the Feral. (08:39 m. - 3:06:31 h.) I would like to post this clip in gratitude and homage to Harlan Lane and his book, When the Mind Hears. In 1984, in the streets of Manhattan on a bicycle, I vividly remembered the moment someone [...]
Sun, Jan 27 2008

04.01.01 Hein’s Castle
The Deaf Child: A Mythology Clip Title: Finding Dr. Hein. First clip of 4th chapter (09:02 m. - 2:57:52 h.) This clip is posted in gratitude to Joyanne Rasmus Burdett and Marlon “Lon” Kuntze, my former CSDFremont colleagues. They, in 1992, wrote letters for my application to the Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund maintained by the GUAA. It was [...]
Fri, Jan 25 2008

03.11.01 Yairusaylim
The Deaf Child: A Mythology (30th&Last Clip of 3rd C. Title: Becoming Feral, 03:26 min, 2:48:50 hrs) Posted on the day we honor our fallen human being we chose to symbolize our still ongoing fight for equal rights, first for the blacks but now for all, MLK, Jr. Click into this vidclip to discover the dark feral side of [...]
Mon, Jan 21 2008

03.10.01 Yairusaylim
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 29th Clip Title: Into the Forest - 10th of 3rd chp - 05:34 min - 2:45:24 hrs This clip is posted with good wishes of a new year to all. The DeafRead, AGBell, NAD conferences, the Olympics, and the presidential elections in the year of 2008. In this clip, find out what VisMa had to [...]
Mon, Jan 07 2008

03.09.01 Yairusaylim
The Deaf Child: A Mythology CT: The First Flight Up - 28th clip - 08:34 min. - 2:39:50 h. This vid-clip of the deaf child's first flight up . . . is posted in gratitude to Paddy Ladd who soared with his ideas. In 1992, Paddy walked into my deaf history classroom at Fremont and out with a synopsis of the [...]
Sat, Dec 29 2007

03.08.01 Yairusaylim
The Deaf Child: A Mythology CT: Philosopher Aris - 27th c. - 8th of 3rd C. - 7:07 m. - 2:31:16 h. Posted with the vision that there will appear a distinguished lyceum of the Best and the Brightest of deaf and hearing ASL artists to meet and raise notches up in the artistry of ASL literature with originals and translations. Can [...]
Mon, Dec 24 2007

03.07.01 Yairusaylim
The Deaf Child: A Mythology CT: Meeting the Deaf Baby/Child - 26th clip - 7th of 3rd c. of DC Myth (06:36 - 2:24:09)  Posted with many good wishes to the DeafRead team in hosting their conference in San Francisco.  Vblog technology, live webcasting, and the emergence of a geninue public “sub-altern” discourse on “deaf-ness/dom/hood” give great opportunities and promises t...
Tue, Dec 18 2007

03.06.01 Yairusaylim
The Deaf Child: A Mythology Clip Title: The Return Home - 25th clip - 6th of 3rd c. of DC Myth (06:41 - 2:17:33) New Addition: Synopsis. Find out why the human owl, now VisMa, faced challenges and how it altered Archae Law into a new one. click on screen to begin and please wait to download if your computer is [...]
Sat, Dec 08 2007

03.05.01 Yairusaylim
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 24th clip, 5th of 3rd Chapter, 06:24 m - 02:2:12:52 h. Clip Title: Becoming a god. Posted in honor of and good luck to a man, akin, nearing completion of an extraordinary project, akin to my feelings about this whole myth project. Inside a simple story finds so much “dD”; so much “dD” inside a life of [...]
Mon, Dec 03 2007

03.04.01 Yairusaylim
The Deaf Child: A Mythology This is the 23rd ASL video clip (03:19, 2:06:28) from Katz's Deaf Child mythology on the “deafhood” (growth/process/history) of the deaf community (deaf experience/deaf history). Posted in thanks to one particular short story by Arthur C. Clarke and my Judaic heritage from our “people of the Book”. [...]
Fri, Nov 30 2007

03.03.01 Yairusaylim
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 22nd clip, 3rd of 3rd C., 04:25, 2:03:09 - Clip Title: The Council of Gods. This clip is posted with my knees down on the ground and head bowed to _____________. click on screen to begin, wait if your computer is “older”, and click back to read down. Click [...]
Fri, Nov 30 2007