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In praise of OUCH Too. At The Rim An ATR response to awareness to OUCH too website perhaps the last bastion of free speech left in the UK for the disabled and even ATR here is one response that got too long to include as a comment there and was about awareness and the role of culture in deaf lives. It became a paper on the UK deaf nearly... "Raising own awareness? I do it too, but the reality i... Sat, May 02 2020 Masks, Masks... At The Rim Now that Boris in the UK looks like telling us all to wear them despite little proof of effectiveness (and the danger of leaving the NHS staff short), here is a USA version of clear masks. Now, all we need are clear speakers to go with it... Fri, May 01 2020 Subtitles for video calls – searching for the Holy Grail At The Rim Pippa Highfield, of Ideas for Ears, is hunting for the holy grail of easy, accurate subtitles for video calls “I want videos calls with live subtitles, so I can read as well as listen to what’s said.” Everyone is facing new challenges in these unprecedented times. As a person with hearing loss, I am finding this fact has its benefits as well as its trials. ... Wed, Apr 29 2020 See-through facemasks help Indonesia’s deaf communicate At The Rim [But UK minister for health says no, they don't offer enough protection against COVID-19.] Probably viable for street use only, NOT medical use. Lip-reading suddenly got tricky when everyone covered their face during the coronavirus pandemic, but Indonesian tailors have hit upon the perfect solution – see-through masks. One husband and wife duo in Makassar o... Tue, Apr 28 2020 One Life on Martha's Vineyard. At The Rim Life on Martha’s Vineyard has been mostly ideal for 11-year-old Mary Elizabeth Lambert, the protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s historical novel SHOW ME A SIGN. It’s 1805 and she’s lived in Chilmark her whole life, unaware of the safe harbor it has provided from the outside world. Mary and her fellow Chilmark residents are descendants of English colonists... Mon, Apr 27 2020 The ATR Dossier At The Rim The response to the current chaos of deaf support and to respond to the 'Dossier Of Shame' produced in desperation by the NUASLI. THE ATR DOSSIER. The NUASLI 'dossier of disgrace' was interesting if only it revealed just what a biased, random, and chaotic mess BSL support was and still is. The NUASLI would not actually ID how many BSL users there were, and w... Mon, Apr 27 2020 Access rights is it a deaf problem? At The Rim You would think so considering all the angst we are reading online about the issues of having difficulty to LIP-READ people during this pandemic. Seems Sign-language on its own isn't up to it and given next to no health staff sign anyway. Force them? get real. Having a deaf sign relay system tends only to work if the medicos do not operate face to face, and i... Sun, Apr 26 2020 Digital Flash Cards (II). At The Rim What ATR covers the Guardian Newspaper follows up with. UK doctor invents digital flashcards to help Covid-19 patients understand staff Cardmedic overcomes communication barrier caused by healthcare staff wearing PPE NHS anaesthetist Dr Rachael Grimaldi Dr Rachael Grimaldi says she was inspired to create Cardmedic after hearing of a patient who was left terrifi... Sun, Apr 26 2020 Deaf Action employability advice shut down. At The Rim Deaf Action’s Employability Service from Deaf Action on Vimeo. And told to go to ask a social worker instead. This ensures DA gets hired to support them??!? Sat, Apr 25 2020 Deaf BSL Terp case unproven? At The Rim Here ATR reproduces parts of the 'Dossier of Disgrace', a current campaign is based on, regarding what is apparently rows between professional and non-professional BSL 'interpreters' and randoms, being used to support the deaf. Citing the lack of government support to improve the integrity and professionalism of support to an alleged 98.000 deaf people who 'pre... Fri, Apr 24 2020 BSL News At The Rim Normally ATR doesn't present BSL-Only output on diminished access grounds, but at least this one provided a narrative. 1. Care Homes. The latest figures from the 10th of April say 1,043 people have died from the virus in care homes in England and Wales although ministers have admitted that number is inaccurate. The Shadow Health Secretary John Ashworth says the gove... Fri, Apr 24 2020 Remote Interpreting (NI). At The Rim Remote interpreting service - ISL from HSC Board on Vimeo. Fri, Apr 24 2020 Toddlers CI switched on by remote. At The Rim Toddler hears for the first time after having an implant fitted into her ear. Young Margarida might have had to wait months to hear were it not for the audiologists’ ingenuity. A 18-month-old deaf girl became a pioneer after medics had to find a way around the lockdown to help her hear for the first time. Hearing experts fitted Margarida Cibrao-Roque with a cochl... Fri, Apr 24 2020 How 'Remarkable' At The Rim Coronavirus (COVID-19) Statement: This may go some way to relieve deaf people currently being lied to by their own activism regarding 'Bans on Interpreters' another wild and irresponsible campaign from UK 'Deaf' activism. Currently not allowing these explanations to be aired on their sites.Please listen to the pros, not the outsiders. [The photo is to show ... Thu, Apr 23 2020 BDA exposed as misinforming deaf people. At The Rim 18 March-BBC – Government briefings in BSL on Coronavirus (update). The BBC have announced that they will be providing Sign Language Interpretation on all weekday Coronavirus government briefings and that the BBC is doing everything it can to ensure these important briefings are accessible. Please note: Due to limited resources there will be some changes t... Thu, Apr 23 2020 Deaf Brits/Italians and coronavirus. At The Rim It's pretty obvious some deaf never actually checked BSL access was there, apart from one area it wasn't BSL in a 'box' in the corner of the TV, indeed interpreters stood with ministers and still do at daily briefings, there seems to be confudion about this access that still is extant on social media sites despite HUGE amounts of information around in BSL there are pe... Wed, Apr 22 2020 CLIPS App At The Rim Easily add subtitling to your vids. How do you add Live Titles to your Clips? You can use Live Titles on any Clip you add, video or photo, new or from your library. Note: Like in the early days of Siri Dictation, Apple is using online transcription for Clips, so you'll need to be connected to a Wi-Fi or cellular data network to use Live Titles. Also, like S... Wed, Apr 22 2020 Can Deafblind access TV? At The Rim Yes they can. For those with zero vision it would appear the lack of equipment is at fault, not the access. Today Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Telefónica and the Federation of Deaf-Blind Persons Associations has developed PervasiveSUB, groundbreaking software that allows deaf-blind persons to receive and enjoy television content without intermediarie... Wed, Apr 22 2020 The rise of Pinoccio At The Rim Disproportionate and misleading information. Subtitling and captions were deliberately omitted on the video where they were provided with every daily briefing and only ONE area in the UK did not provide in-vision BSL access. The BSL user has NEVER had so much televised access as they have now. E.G. the BBC's channel 601 provides complete BSL coverage every day, th... Wed, Apr 22 2020 Barriers to home-working for the deaf. At The Rim Working from home is a challenge for many of us, from learning how to communicate with colleagues via Zoom, to acquainting ourselves with the nuances of telephone conference calls. But imagine what it must be like if you are deaf or have difficulty hearing. Research published on Wednesday by a UK hearing loss charity, found that three-quarters of people who live wi... Wed, Apr 22 2020 Burying the lies about BSL access. At The Rim ATR is a long-standing 'anti-charity' based blog, primarily because access and inclusion is a right not a handout, but a legal right enshrined in law. To be scrupulously far ATR has to challenge a number of BSL deaf areas and claims that are undermining these rights. A number of quite serious situations now exist via the coronavirus, but lack of access is NOT... Tue, Apr 21 2020 New BSL service for BSL welfare claimants. At The Rim Universal Credit claimants can now access British Sign Language interpreters as part of a free video relay service. From: Department for Work and Pensions and Justin Tomlinson MP The service can be used to help make a new claim or for those already claiming Universal Credit. This supports a package of measures put in place to provide quicker and easier access to... Mon, Apr 20 2020 Things deaf are fed up with.. At The Rim And next, "15 things that P.I.S.S. off hearing people about the deaf" ? Probably vids like this will be well up there... Hang on , they said deaf were tired of HEARING... Mon, Apr 20 2020 How do you Video the deaf and HoH? At The Rim Easy peasy if it is signer to signer, pretty dire if you don't and want to contact anyone else. It makes little difference what video platform you use unless there is real-time and accurate captioning with it, and next to none have any that is effective. It is so easy for others to subtitle own videos and send them to us, why don't they do that? Perhaps because ... Mon, Apr 20 2020 UK: NO deaf immigrants thank you. At The Rim [I think currently NO immigrants at all until this is all over, ON a practicable basis the UK are expected to allow immigrants in who need care, health, education, housing, welfare money, and language support/tuition, and maybe a questionable ability to work? What country would not think twice? And why are they refusing to request asylum with the 6 EU countries ... Mon, Apr 20 2020 Digital flash cards... At The Rim These would be highly useful if the NHS is treating those with hearing loss. You can get cards too. Sat, Apr 18 2020 Face Masks and the HI/Deaf. At The Rim The UK is not convinced the masks are all that effective. The vlogger suggests it is in case we are carriers and unknowing (which means everyone given the lack of testing). W.H.O. says you need only wear a mask IF you are already showing symptoms as the virus carries via coughing or sneezing droplets. You need surgical-grade masks to be sure, and these are restric... Sat, Apr 18 2020 Hard Of Hearing fear for AOHL? At The Rim #1 Yesterday I received an email from Action on Hearing Loss advising that from 1st May they will no longer be selling “assistive products”. They will continue to offer advice and information on assistive products but will be concentrating their efforts on other things e.g research, information, advice and support, and campaigning. They want to do fewer things... Sat, Apr 18 2020 AOHL: More sell-offs. At The Rim Following the January news release AOHL was selling of its deaf care, and taking major decisions to retain its solvency, today we see them selling off more areas, this time assistive devices to the Deaf and Hard Of Hearing. AOHL to no longer sell assistive products We regret to inform you that from 1 May 2020, Action on Hearing Loss will no longer be selling assis... Fri, Apr 17 2020 The truth the whole truth? At The Rim ATR is reading proposals to sue the UK government for lack of BSL interpretation during the coronavirus outbreak. This is not true it is a campaign that is economical with the truth. BSL coverage of everything on TV or online is never going to happen. E.G. Wales had a BSL terp day one and alongside the daily updates from the welsh assembly and still does every ... Fri, Apr 17 2020 Fair Play! At The Rim Above is a picture of 'Captain Tom' who has raised currently near £18m for the NHS in the UK who are fighting the virus. But some are concerned JustGiving who manages the campaign for him, is allowed to take a 5% of everything he raises. This means they are currently making £90,000 out of our support for Tom's campaign and the NHS. Let this go viral and as... Fri, Apr 17 2020 Why the Hard Of Hearing ceased to exist. At The Rim A few sad but realistic exchanges on a hard of hearing site. I find it very hard and stressful to follow people, and the nod goes at everything, I just cannot follow anything much at all. They say deaf make the best listeners! lol yeah, Except when tired or long conversations, where it's just too much hard work. I suppose the answer is we are using the wrong... Wed, Apr 15 2020 Where is the Deaf Plan B? At The Rim There is Angst on some BSL sites of people saying they should stop using BSL interpreters and make more effort themselves. Which launched a Deaf tirade at the English language, it's grammar, it's users(!), and anger the deaf culture and language were under attack. Alternatively..... I suspect the negativity comes from hearing (And HoH), who see BSL support NOT as... Wed, Apr 15 2020 UK's got the answer to social isolation. At The Rim Bored? and up for a challenge? You are STILL bored? 21 Stupid Challenges. 1. See if you can fit in your fridge. 2. Start talking to people in other stalls at a public toilet. 3. Get away with playing The Floor Is Lava for the entire day. 4. Get a grocer to sell you one single grape... or go to a drive-through and try to order one French fry. ... Tue, Apr 14 2020 Deaf 911 At The Rim Deaf 911 from Prodigious NY on Vimeo. Systems have always advocated signed access is too slow and unreliable, and sign does not reach the most with deafness or hearing loss, but these deaf still insist on it. Their constant demands and criticism of English and its grammar etc have all contributed to their isolation and access issues. Their response? It's al... Tue, Apr 14 2020 25 reasons to say no to BSL? At The Rim ATR prints a selection of 25 comments on BSL in the UK taken from 4 HoH areas and 19 dedicated online sites over the last 5 weeks, (that it was able to view, not easy with most 'closed' and only open to those with only closed minds it seems). Some views are obviously dismissive of sign language, deaf areas, deaf culture, and even some respected deaf people, but unle... Mon, Apr 13 2020 Deaf Echo...echo...echo... At The Rim Lot's of righteous indignation, criticism of hearing areas that focus on the interpreter and not the client etc ergo.. As for audism DOH!!!!! 'My second point is that deaf professionals who interact with the hearing world deal with variations of the Interpreter Basking In The Spotlight Syndrome all the time.' But the reality is Deaf people made 'celebs' o... Sun, Apr 12 2020 What is a Lip-speaker? At The Rim For most, mythical beings reputed to support deaf and Hard of Hearing people who have attained a reasonable standard of lip-reading despite 94% failure rates in tuition classes, and available only to those who live in areas able to meet the fees the lip-speaker can charge and has the ability to hire on a regular basis, so near all exist in the cities and nowhere else,... Sat, Apr 11 2020 GP Access (Ireland) At The Rim GP Access Scheme during the Covid19 pandemic from Irish Deaf Society on Vimeo. While ATR had to refuse outright the Welsh BDA video through lack of any viable access for anyone to follow, we are tentatively allowing this one from Ireland, which although has not been captioned or subtitled for this vital information for the deaf, has at least provided a short text narr... Fri, Apr 10 2020 Welsh Government: BSL unproven as essential skill. At The Rim Why the welsh assembly refused to endorse the BSL Bill. So why did the Scottish and Irish Governments go with it? Because they wanted to piss off the UK Government? Here is what the Wesh Assembly said. The review identified a plausible, but as yet, unproven case for designating BSL as an Essential Communication skill for parents and carers of d/Deaf children. ... Fri, Apr 10 2020 A lost Cause? (The BSL Act).
At The Rim During the lockdown, 'Deaf' activism is still struggling to get signatures on a petition to enable a BSL Act in law. Is time to accept there is no proven demand for that to happen? What they say: We are talking about HOW we may be able to reach 100,000 People sign the petition for British Sign Language Bill to be debating in Parliament. I strongly believe it’... Thu, Apr 09 2020 |
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