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AGBell Builds Another Wall At Milwaukee!
AGBell.info A call today came through today from the Hyatt sales manager, informing DBC that AGBell has convinced the Midwest Airlines Center and Hyatt Regency to close off the inside walkway that connects the two–closing it off so that AGBell's and DBC's conference participants cannot use it.    AGBell does not want their attendees, mostly parents of Deaf child...
Media Audism Legal Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Pope Benedict XVI….Could you….?
AGBell.info On TV, we observed that you saw the Deaf Choir signing which was seen by millions and millions of people around the world. And was it beautiful?  But did you realize that ICED, International Congress on Education for the Deaf and AGBAD, Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf  banned sign language from the deaf community since [...]
Media Language Audism Culture Sat, Apr 19 2008 hide this blog

Why Did AG Bell Eliminated ASL?
AGBell.info Back in 1880 at Milan, Italy, over 90% of the convention attendees (all hearing) included AGBell decided to start Oral method for Deaf babies and children all over the world. What bothered me was that why not just add the oral ideology to the already established (sign)language of the Deaf rather than throw it all [...]
Tue, Mar 18 2008 hide this blog

What AGBAD doesn’t want you to know
AGBell.info The Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf is NOT restricted by its original certificate of incorporation to promote only the oral method of instructing the deaf. The original name for the Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf was: “American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (AAPTSD).” The AAPTSD was [...]
Culture Thu, Feb 07 2008 hide this blog

AGBell wants to deprive Deaf people who sign of their...
AGBell.info The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf - better know as “agBAD” - sent a letter to Pepsico recently on January 31, 2008. This is from their statement: “We would also like to remind you that with the amount of money Pepsi will spend on just one 60 second spot to air during the Super [...]
Wed, Feb 06 2008 hide this blog

ASL Pepsi Super Bowl Commercial
AGBell.info Today I was shocked that AGBell have started their movement to have their members to sent in their comments about how they feel about Pepsi’s commercial for the Super Bowl using ASL AGBell is a very, very powerful organization that have been successful banning sign language (American Sign Language) for deaf babies and children in schools [...]
Culture Thu, Jan 31 2008 hide this blog

Advocating ASL Onlya lie?
AGBell.info Hot debates on Deficit Thinking educated many hearing and deaf people. Few complained that I did not explain the terminology of Deficit Thinking. I thought many other people were doing a good job. Ok, I will give you an example. Here is a comment on Mishka Zenas post, AGBell NazisDeaf Nazis and I copy and pasted it here, # [...]
Audism Thu, Dec 20 2007 hide this blog

Deaf Nazis?.NEVER!
AGBell.info Before I read Mishka Zena's Blog, AGBell NazisDeaf Nazis, I was hoping that the Deaf community wasn't being labeled Deaf Nazis and also was looking forward to read about AGBell Nazis, but I was disappointed. This was written by a commenter, “Who cares?” And it was not written by Mishka Zena, but the headline of the [...]
Language Audism Education Culture Thu, Dec 20 2007 hide this blog

My Thanks to Candace A. McCullough
AGBell.info Thank you, Candace, for explaining about the difference between deficit thinker and deficit thinking. I am learning everyday to be careful how to use words. What I had meant was the deficit thinking should be eliminated from DeafRead.com and we should empower each other the betterment in Deaf education and language for babies and children in [...]
Language Culture Wed, Dec 19 2007 hide this blog

REMOVE THOSE DEFICIT THINKERS
AGBell.info At the 2008 DeafRead Conference in San Francisco on February 2nd, I think that the Vloggers and Bloggers should have a discussion about removing the Deficit Thinkers and ban them from DeafRead.com. Would you think NAACP allows articles or blogs that makes fun of African American people??????? And I am not the only one that have concerns [...]
Language Audism Tech Culture Sun, Dec 16 2007 hide this blog

AGBell and Associates Brainwashes Public Again
AGBell.info We should demand equal interview time with In The Loop with iVillage about ASL for Deaf Babies too!!! This is from “In The Loop with iVillage”.  It is an interview with AGBell connections and is a big media play by AGBell. The interviewer is Bill Rancic who interviews the Coordinator for Child Voice AVT Program, Wendy Adler [...]
Language Tech Thu, Dec 13 2007 hide this blog

A Comment from Hearing Parent
AGBell.info Do parents make their own informed decision or forced by guilt from AGBell and their associates? Read this comment that I got today which may be common to many parents of deaf babies. In 1995 a miracle took place in Lafayette, IN. A young couple in their very early 20's had a given birth to a deaf [...]
Language Audism Education Wed, Nov 28 2007 hide this blog

DBC Indiana Rally at Purdue University
AGBell.info Deaf Bilingual Coalition Indiana Rally at The Indiana Conference on Listening and Spoken Language Purdue University- Stewart Center- West Lafayette, IN on 11/30/07 07:30 AM Attn: Teachers of the Deaf, Speech-Language Pathologists, Audiologists, Early Interventionists, and Parents Do you want more information on spoken language options for deaf children? Do you wonder...
Audism Sat, Nov 24 2007 hide this blog

1880 Milan is Destroying American Sign Language
AGBell.info The Deaf community knows that 1880 Milan is the root of all the problems with our Deaf education and destroyed our natural cognitive language(ASL). Now here is what so ironic about this one blogger that said; This Milan thing is getting really tiring and getting very old with you guys always looking back. Always complaining. And never [...]
Audism Tue, Nov 20 2007 hide this blog

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ASL?
AGBell.info Just what in the hell is wrong with ASL? Why do AGBell. AVT, misguided hearing impaired people and other self-centered people have no respect for ASL? There is one misguided HOH blogger(doesnt want to be label deaf) that is trying to rationalize his name and identity by telling the public that sign language is alright for deaf [...]
Language Wed, Nov 14 2007 hide this blog

AGBell Robbed our Dignity for over 100 Years!
AGBell.info What is Dignity? From Wikpedia, [link] Dignity in humans involves the earning or the expectation of personal respect or esteem. To esteem persons or things is to give them a high value. It is like pride, it is the name of an emotion which refers to a strong sense of self-respect, a refusal to be humiliated as well as joy in the accomplishment.s of oneself. Since [...]
Language Audism Education Culture Wed, Sep 12 2007 hide this blog

Yes, Hamill was Robbed!!! Blessing Disguise?
AGBell.info BUT WHAT IS NEW?........ ABGell robbed the Deaf people´s ASL by banning sign language in schools in the last 100 years. Is it a blessing disguise that Matt Hamill was robbed? Did the judge assume that the Deaf community is too weak to speak up? Why some weak deaf people and hearing oppressors enjoy broadcasting that the deaf leaders are "Deaf Militants and [...]
Media Audism Sun, Sep 09 2007 hide this blog

It is Barbaric. It is Inhumane. It is Child Abuse.
AGBell.info What is the probability that CI implant would work for a child? CI is not 100% guaranteed that a child would hear just like a hearing person would. Ask yourself this. If you knew that the odds were that if you were asked to fly on a certain plane where there are 30% odds that the plane will crash at take off, en route during flight, or at your destination, will you [...]
Audism Tue, Sep 04 2007 hide this blog

BREAKING NEWS
AGBell.info Saturday, September 1, 2007 The following translation of a speech given in ASL by David O. Reynolds has been authorized by him for immediate release. This inspirational speech on the topic of implementing bilingual programs in the field of deaf education was made near the conclusion of an educational workshop at a conference now taking place in downtown Los Angeles: [...]
Language Audism Education Sat, Sep 01 2007 hide this blog

My Story
AGBell.info Hello, My name is Shirley Egbert. I have been sitting, watching and reading about languages. I am the person who is quiet. I agreed and disagreed with some comments out there without saying anything out loud. My husband, John started Deaf Bilingual Coalition, I stand by him with FULL SUPPORT. I totally agree with this philosophy. With my past experience growing [...]
Audism Education Tue, Aug 28 2007 hide this blog

Spoken English is Different than Written English
AGBell.info My good friend, Barry Siebert wrote a comment on my post #77 "Data Flow Rate...important?" and thought maybe you would be interesting in reading it too. Comment: I agree with John Egbert about the need for research and documentation about data flow. Some time ago, I spoke to a group of about 200 people of which about 20 were deaf. I asked the audience to please stand [...]
Language Sun, Aug 26 2007 hide this blog

Press Release - Oralism is out of date
AGBell.info Press Release Thursday, August 23, 2007 A Wall Street Journal editor wrote a book review which appears in the Wall Street Journal today which declares that the deaf education method/philosophy called "oralism" is out of date and was wrong to begin with: QUOTE: For example, she discusses an international conference for deaf educators in Milan that in 1880 [...]
Language Audism Education Culture Thu, Aug 23 2007 hide this blog

Do You Have Stories to Tell Your Experience in Oral Schools?
AGBell.info Would it be nice if someone start collecting numerous testimonials from deaf people who grew up in Oral education? I bet there are many, many "testimonials" comments on Blogs and Vlogs since Deafread.com formed. Those testimonials are needed to show the world that most oral deaf people did not have a harmony childhood. And that discovered the fulfilled life after [...]
Language Audism Education Sun, Aug 12 2007 hide this blog

John F. Egbert Donates $1,000 to DBC
AGBell.info Press Release John F. Egbert is the author of "MindField" (ISBN 978-0595421589, iUniverse, Inc., [link] a fast-paced suspense novel in which a terrorist cell unleashes a virulent bacteria on the U.S., causing millions of Americans to become deaf almost overnight. The book is available at Amazon.com. Besides the donation of  $1,000, he also spent over [...]
Language Sun, Aug 05 2007 hide this blog

"Differences between Deaf and Hearing Bionic-Computer"
AGBell.info Some of you may have read this somewhere..... We all, Hearing and Deaf people are human bionic-computers. Before I go any further explaining more about what I will write on this post, you might ask this question, what is a bionic-computer? Bionic-computer is a human being that its brain can compute to do things such as like calculating the coordination while [...]
Language Audism Education Tech Sat, Aug 04 2007 hide this blog

It is the Biased Ideology/Philosophy
AGBell.info Many hearing/deaf people now are coming out to speak what they believe is best for deaf children after their years of experience growing up deaf or parents raising their deaf children into adulthood. They all have different views. Some rather promote the ideology how some successful oral child were able to achieve the ability to speak, but many others speaking up [...]
Language Audism Sat, Aug 04 2007 hide this blog

I'm disgusted!!!...Look at NIDCD's Website
AGBell.info National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Improving the lives of people who have communication disorders Take a look at this site; [link] It shows the content page about American Sign Language What is American Sign Language? Is sign language the same around the globe? Where did ASL originate? How does ASL compare with spoken language? Why does [...]
Media Language Audism Legal Fri, Aug 03 2007 hide this blog

Edwin S. Grosvenor, approves of the use of the "AGBAD"...
AGBell.info Press Release Friday, August 3, 2007 The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf currently does not appear to use the acronym "AGBAD," but now uses the abbreviation "AGBell". However, the Alexander Graham Bell's great-grandson, Edwin S. Grosvenor, approves of the use of the "AGBAD" acronym. Here is a quote from a Web [...]
Language Audism Fri, Aug 03 2007 hide this blog

Dr. Fleischer's statement of support
AGBell.info Dr. Fleischer's statement of support to the Deaf Bilingual Coalition: QUOTE You have my deepest gratitude for carrying out a very important mission by standing in front of the AGB Conference site to let the whole world know the importance of signed languages for deaf youngsters in their first language acquisition. All the archaic and absurd ideas that result in [...]
Language Audism Education Fri, Aug 03 2007 hide this blog

Be there on Wednesday, July 25th at Gallaudet´s SAC near...
AGBell.info I will be there around 8 am to 4 pm to discuss with anyone about the protest at the AGBell Conference on Auditory-Verbal Therapy and Deaf Bilingual Coalition´s mission. And on Thursday, July 26th, we will have important discussion about the protest at the AGBell Conference on Auditory-Verbal Therapy and have T-shirts available. Feel free to come and join in the [...]
Tue, Jul 24 2007 hide this blog

First Historical AGBell Protest
AGBell.info FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Deaf Bilingual Coalition to Protest AG Bell´s Summer Conference HAM LAKE, Minn., July 10, 2007 - Does the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) promote a damaging, outdated ideology? Yes, says the Deaf Bilingual Coalition–and it´s time for the organization to recognize American Sign Language(ASL) as [...]
Media Language Audism Education Tue, Jul 10 2007 hide this blog

New Deaf Bilingual Coalition Formed
AGBell.info Deaf Bilingual Coalition was just created by an oral deaf person. This oral person is a "cream of the crop" deaf person that can speak like a hearing person. This oralist´s hearing level is 90db. He grew up in the hearing world and never had any deaf friends til he was 18 years old. This guy had no concept of what sign language was and never had a thought that he [...]
Language Audism Education Fri, Jul 06 2007 hide this blog

IT IS TIME TO PROTEST AGBELL
AGBell.info True Business! This is the beginning towards prosperity for all the deaf children´s future having a cognitive language, better education with bilingual programs. I am coming to Washington DC on July 24th to have a peaceful protest on front of Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia on July 27th and 28th. If you wish to participate, making up signs, etc, email [...]
Language Audism Education Thu, Jul 05 2007 hide this blog

AGBell´s Ideology Needs to be Revised!
AGBell.info Alexander Graham Bell´s ideology was to have all deaf children to learn oral communication method and eliminate any form of visual language, especially American Sign Language - the only genuine cognitive language for the deaf. We need to approach to AGBell about their ideology that needs to be revised because thousands upon thousands of deaf people´ English language [...]
Language Audism Education Tech Wed, Jul 04 2007 hide this blog