Saltbar

The non-starters
Saltbar Just a quick entry to show what have been playing on my mind a lot in the last 24 hours. Whilst I am really proud for Team GB who did fantastically well in the Beijing Olympics. I am also equally proud for the British Paralympics for having equally successful time in Beijing at the very moment. [...]
Audism Culture Wed, Sep 10 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf parenting
Saltbar I will talk about a localised experience we are going through at the moment.I also hope that this is a national phenomenon too.I wouldn't be surprised if it is too. When our daughter was born 2 and half years ago, we had next to no information on where we could go to receive support and parental [...]ShareThis
Language Education Culture Fri, Aug 15 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Extremism Is The Norm
Saltbar I would like to recount my experience during my visit to Damacus, Syria, when I attended my good friend's brother wedding. Having faced the death-defying car rides and me mistaking the suspect Arab's bidet plumbing for a muezzin's call for prayer at 2am, the capital still captivated me. It was the most violent jerk from one [...]
Education Culture Mon, May 26 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Give Me A Sign
Saltbar A plug for DeafParent.org.uk….. A new teen blog and novel exploring deafness ‘Give Me a Sign' for young adults, will be published by Flame Books on 1st July 2008. About the book Bullied at school, unhappy at home and seriously lacking in self-esteem,16-year-old Liz's world is transformed when she meets Doug, who is deaf. But can their [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, May 21 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Skye
Saltbar from Vimeo & all rights reserved. A young Deaf woman attends a social event, a 70s fancy dress party, for the first time after the death of her mother. She is still struggling with her grief and with facing people until she met a mysterious stranger, who entertained her. He makes her comfortable with herself and [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, May 21 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Good Morning, America
Saltbar In response to the latest post by MM, there are certain things which doesn't quite rings true or got me baffled. The title “Wake Up, America” is confounding. Wake up, America, to do what? To watch the whole drama to unfold on a distant shore? MM alerting USA as an early warning system to prevent similar [...]
Legal Culture Wed, May 21 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Look like someone like iPlayer
Saltbar I have just been watching iPlayer via my Firefox browser (the Miro variant that Joe have been raving about). I don't see any technical problems APART from the lack of navigable features in finding subtitled/signed programmes and the lack of it outside SH.
Tech Tue, Feb 12 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Synthetic phonics
Saltbar My alarm bells was ringing after watching ‘Dispatches' on Channel 4 last nite. The documentary is entitled “Why our children can't read“.  The background reading leading to this documentary: “According to Government statistics, a fifth of youngsters leaving primary school can't read and write properly. That means they have not...
Language Education Tue, Oct 23 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Is the Government bovvered about us?
Saltbar Fighting talk from Susan Daniel (NDCS CEO), in her article about the current educational system for Deaf children. The beef is: Government figures published today highlight that record numbers of children (60 percent) achieved five GCSEs graded A* to C this summer (1). Yet only a third (32.9%) of deaf children achieve this pass rate (2). The 1st paragraph of [...]
Thu, Oct 18 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Petition - BSL as part of our basic human rights
Saltbar This is a plug to encourage more people to sign up and support the cause.....it aspire to closely emulate the Welsh Language Act - another minority language within these British Isles.  We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Detail, in a form of a British Sign Language Bill, how all Deaf and hard of hearing people will have the legal right to learn, [...]
Language Legal Culture Fri, Sep 07 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

What is your excuse?
Saltbar For as long as I can remember, I have tried to avoid utilities / bank / councils / whatever, which insists on using the telephone only as part of their customer service frontline. Sometimes, I find myself compromised or faced with no choice but embark into the myriad of irritating telephone systems, along with my inconsistent telecomm solution for the Deaf and HoH [...]
Audism Wed, Aug 22 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post