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AGBell Do Not Want a Black Leader CEO for NAD!
AGBell.info A rumor that AGBell are sh#tting in their pants now about National Association of the Deaf looking for a Black Leader to be the new CEO for National Association of the Deaf because they feared that Congress will listen to the New Black Deaf Leader representing the Deaf Community regarding about their education and language being [...]
Wed, Dec 09 2009

AGBell Needs to Help Deaf Education with Bilingual
AGBell.info AGBell needs to realize that bilingual philosophy is so important for Deaf babies and children in schools and home.  Please click on this YouTube: [link] It is time for Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf to accept bilingual language- American Sign Language for all Deaf babies and children and promote this bilingual philosophy at Chicago-EHDI conference [...
Sun, Dec 06 2009

Tayler,… thanks for deleting my comment on your blog
AGBell.info Tayler had a blog about the 26 people arrested related to VRS and I made a comment and was deleted.  I understand that this is a serious issue about cheating the government and wanted to also express my concern how the Deaf community was CHEATED by the people that took away our rights of our [...]
Thu, Nov 26 2009

For Public Distribution
AGBell.info A parent ask me to post this: This notice is from the famous Erin Brokovich, an environment activist who works with the firm of Weitz & Luxenberg. For public distribution. Additional Lawsuits filed against Advanced Bionics Regarding Failed HiRes90k and Clarion Cochlear Implants Get a Free Lawsuit Review for Failed Cochlear Implants Via the Form Below. September 2,...
Sat, Oct 24 2009

Message from John Egbert
AGBell.info I had posted this on my other blogsphere but may not have come up due to the fact the it is not in deafread anymore so I reposted this on agbellinfo to get my message out. I have come to realize that I need to stop labeling people and also stop using quotes such as “Enough [...]
Thu, Oct 22 2009

Canadian Deaf Community Demands Apology from I.C.E.D.
AGBell.info Canada Association of the Deaf, CAD and other groups, organizations wrote a letter to I.C.E.D. – International Congress on Education of the Deaf for an apology related to 1880 Milan. Please link on these two YouTube by Wayne Sinclair of Vancouver, BC to learn more about the letter demanding apology from I.C.E.D. [link] and [link] Please plan your vacation at...
Fri, Oct 16 2009

Why NAD Former Members Not Renewing Their Membership?
AGBell.info We need to rally the former NAD members back and support NAD. Why are many Deaf people disappointed with NAD? We need to have NAD to start a survey poll set up on their website to find out why many former NAD members are not renewing their membership with NAD.  This survey could reveal the changes needed [...]
Sun, Oct 11 2009

NAD, Amy Cohen Efron, Deaf Pundit – Wizard of Oz
AGBell.info What is happening with these people and NAD that is having big concerns with NetFlix at this time while we have other bigger priority to improve education and language for the Deaf community? Stirring up a big commotion about Wizard of Oz and Netflix with no caption is a big priority for NAD, Amy Cohen Efron [...]
Tue, Oct 06 2009

DBC Sucks….?
AGBell.info A new blog call “Auditory Verbal Parents” showed up in Deafread com and the blog is filed under Melissa Chaikof.  I clicked the blog's resources and here's what came up, Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing American Speech-Language Hearing Association Natural Communications, Inc. The Listen Foundation VOICE for Hea...
Sat, Jun 13 2009

DEAF GIRL KILLED BY TRAIN IN TEXAS!
AGBell.info Not sure when this happened but Theresa Bulger have profoundly concerns about Deaf children “Prisoners of Silence” Bulger is CEO of the Auditory Oral Foundation for the Auditory Oral School of New York (AOSNY) and director of  OPTION School School Services. This job takes Bulger around the world. She also speaks to Legislators and  Senators for [...]
Sun, Dec 21 2008

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...
Wed, Jun 25 2008

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 [...]
Sat, Apr 19 2008

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

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 [...]
Thu, Feb 07 2008

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

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 [...]
Thu, Jan 31 2008

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, # [...]
Thu, Dec 20 2007

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 [...]
Thu, Dec 20 2007

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 [...]
Wed, Dec 19 2007

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 [...]
Sun, Dec 16 2007

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 [...]
Thu, Dec 13 2007

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 [...]
Wed, Nov 28 2007

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...
Sat, Nov 24 2007

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 [...]
Tue, Nov 20 2007

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 [...]
Wed, Nov 14 2007

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 [...]
Wed, Sep 12 2007

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 [...]
Sun, Sep 09 2007

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 [...]
Tue, Sep 04 2007

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: [...]
Sun, Sep 02 2007

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 [...]
Tue, Aug 28 2007

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 [...]
Sun, Aug 26 2007

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 [...]
Thu, Aug 23 2007

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 [...]
Sun, Aug 12 2007

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 [...]
Sun, Aug 05 2007

"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 [...]
Sat, Aug 04 2007

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 [...]
Sat, Aug 04 2007

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 [...]
Fri, Aug 03 2007

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 [...]
Fri, Aug 03 2007

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 [...]
Fri, Aug 03 2007

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

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 [...]
Tue, Jul 10 2007

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 [...]
Fri, Jul 06 2007

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 [...]
Thu, Jul 05 2007

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 [...]
Thu, Jul 05 2007