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Deaf Vblogging explosion ?
 At The Rim An interesting point, but, one issue is the lack of access to many vblogs by the deaf which is a conundrum given access is their demand. Fortunately this vblog gives an text run-down (Thanks for that), but the issue of many vbloggers not given 'air time' on leading sites (Is that true ?), may well be down to the fact without access, and suggestions 'some' vbloggers de...Wed, Sep 01 2010 What language do deaf think in ?
 At The Rim If a deaf person is born deaf in what language do they think!? This question and a whole plethora of amusing and some downright ignorance I read online today. Personally I think our deaf command of English and spelling far superior to what I am reading here too !Chojboco: Deafenese.Prettyboi Floyd: Some are born death some become death and there language is sign l...Mon, Aug 30 2010 The X_Factor deaf- wise.
At The Rim Forget X-Factor and the relenteless parade of untalented idiots queuing up to be aunt sally in the TV stocks, and fuelling dubious egos of even more obscure 'celebrities'. This is a real and unique chance for the deaf in the UK to see who will step up to the plate to be ID'd as cultural deaf leadership material in the United Kingdom. We have waited 10 years for a...Sat, Aug 28 2010 One CI, two working ears ?
At The Rim A woman has become the first person in the UK to undergo surgery to fit a single cochlear implant capable of giving sound in both ears.It is hoped the device will give the patient, from the Isle of Wight, improved bilateral hearing by running two stimulator wires from the implant. An implant is usually fitted to one ear which can lead to problems with noise. The fou...Fri, Aug 27 2010 UN to move on Disability rights
At The Rim Not before time given there are worrying signs (No pun intended), that the British DDA is not working effectively enough for the deaf or disabled. It also draws a line between gay-ethnic rights and deaf-disabled ones, this will enable deaf people to more make the point of 'deaf hate 'and discriminations, none of which are being met at present in the United Kingdom, d...Tue, Aug 24 2010 The Brit Answer to Marlee..
At The Rim Well, reputed to be funnier anyway.... unencumbered by excess hair, has never done a film (Much to his credit), and doesn't waste his time doing the celeb circuit relating past glories (Mostly because there aren't any), but, has a real message. (Free copy of Understanding deafhood IF you can tell us what it is, the silver crosses are not working with mine, )... The ...Mon, Aug 23 2010 Mendoza Surpised....
At The Rim LINK: Deaf activists oppose brochure for parentsIt's strong language to accuse a state assemblyman of pushing a "eugenics" bill that could threaten deaf people. But in an emotionally charged fight, California deaf activists have invoked the word as they battle a bill that could pass the state Legislature within a week.Tony Mendoza, a Democrat from Artesia, said he h...Fri, Aug 20 2010 Social Inclusion for Beginners...
At The Rim More a comment on the commercial main streaming of inclusion, and what I disagree with. First, What it is about....."what can happen when people or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low income, poor housing, high crime, bad health and family breakdown” or deaf and disabled. What can we do about it ?" (Sorry about ...Tue, Aug 17 2010 The Faceless Deaf...
At The Rim Making the point that increasingly there are sectors of deaf and others who are trying to influence the deaf persona, image, and culture online to suit their own views of it, and to keep influential commentators out. Seems even the sign user has its puritanical hard-core. Is there anyone with a strident or radical view here who hasn't yet been banned ? You can't be...Sun, Aug 15 2010 Dering, To take court action for unpaid fees.
At The Rim LEGAL ACTION: Stephen Dering blames the Shaw Trust charity for his company having to enter administration. A SPECIALIST recruitment agency for deaf people is to take legal action against a leading charity for "suffocating" the company into administration.Dering Employment Services, which has helped thousands of deaf or hard of hearing people find and retain work, cla...Fri, Aug 13 2010 It's getting Worse, MUCH worse...
At The Rim THE number of people who are both deaf and blind in Wales is expected to grow by 57% in just 20 years.A report by deafblind charity Sense said people over 70 will be most affected with a 87% increase by 2030.It is estimated 18,850 people in Wales are currently affected by both visual and hearing impairments. Richard Brook, chief executive of Sense, said: “The results ...Sun, Aug 08 2010 Clean Feeders are right...
At The Rim For once I agree with this vblogger, a number of us are fed up with the digs, jibes, and veiled attacks on bloggers personally and using comment slots to attack other. Although outright bans are an issue as this encourages those dubious 'No clean feed' people, you know the ones professing we are all government agents trying to prevent them voicing truth ! In realit...Sun, Aug 08 2010 Praise Be....
At The Rim I've got religion, well, I've had deafness, so needed to downsize..."Who would true signing see,Let him come hither;BSL will our constant be,Come wind, come weatherThere's no discouragementShall make the BDA relentIt's first avowed intentTo be Signs leader.Who so beset us roundWith sign English storiesDo but themselves confound;BSL the more is.No orals can us fright,W...Fri, Aug 06 2010 The Coconut syndrome (Return to Hearinghood).
At The Rim Listed as a term for people who are half-caste or not quite one thing or another, the term coconut assumes a derogatory and even offensive meaning, it divides people by image and divides families and worse. Most people with deafness or hearing loss are 'coconuts', and I don't mean that in a derogatory way, but only as an metaphorical example description of what mos...Fri, Aug 06 2010 Why has it taken 2 years to reply ?
At The Rim First sent April 2008.. From the Executive Director of Charity Services.Re: The Royal National Institute for Deaf People — Registered Charity 20772Thank you for your letter and enclosing an email from your constituent MM, I am sorry that MM was dissatisfied with the Commission's response.I understand from his latest email that MMs concerns are that:• there is a lack o...Thu, Aug 05 2010 How Deaf review Deaf acting storylines..
At The Rim I found this old review about a deaf play called 'Soundproof' from an old deaf magazine..."So much was expected of this 'inclusive' play about a deaf sign user being suspected of murder. We had thrills, spills, and gratuitious sex to take our minds off the fact, the sign was in Arabic or something, and the camerman in desperate attempts to cover up the poor signing, ...Thu, Aug 05 2010 Dering in Receivership
At The Rim With the charities backing out of supporting deaf into work, the state abdicating responsibilities for helping deaf find it, it is sad news a deaf-run business is now in serious trouble too. The question is, where do British deaf go from here ? They are already unemployed to 63% and face considerable discriminations from British employers as it is, this, combined wi...Tue, Aug 03 2010 Little Voices...
At The Rim A deaf actor who starred in Four Weddings and a Funeral is to take the lead in a film written and produced by students at a Welsh university.Little Voices, is the story of an isolated deaf man struggling to cope with the loss of his partner. Wrexham-born David Bower, who played David in Four Weddings, said many movie scripts tackling deafness and disability were "wel...Tue, Aug 03 2010 Melow's Twitter Page..
At The Rim Question 1ContactAFamily @RNID Hi! How have you involved your users in the rebranding process?RNID @ContactAFamily There've been various stages - 4000+ people interviewed or surveyed, including users, commissioners, members (the RNID has 35,000 members but chose to ask outsiders like the people they want money from !).Question 2sirgarg @RNID Do you think the younger ...Fri, Jul 30 2010 Disney's 3D Xmas Carol a first in UK
At The Rim Bluddy 'ell Christmas comes earlier every year ! Only one error as I can see the promo vid isn't accessible lol.....From this link...Disney's 'A Christmas Carol' breaks new ground as the first ever fully 'accessible' 3D movie. This weekend marks a milestone in UK cinema - the release of the first ever 3D movie that is accessible to people with hearing or sight loss....Fri, Jul 30 2010 Glee-Imagine
At The Rim Who says deaf can't sing ?Imagine there's no countries,It isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope some day you'll join usAnd the world will live as oneImagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungera brotherhood of manImagine all ...Wed, Jul 28 2010 To Interpret or not to Interpret ?
At The Rim It was heartening to read via this link, a successful court case against a Hospital for trying to bully and pressurise an deaf patient into using relatives to interpret, avoid compliance with the law, and mostly to save money.Hermans, who communicates primarily via ASL, alleged that despite repeated requests for a sign language interpreter, hospital staff never provid...Fri, Jul 23 2010 Not the 1880 Blog...
At The Rim I say, I say, I say, have you heard the one about..... welcome to the silly season.So they have just voted against an edict of 1880 in Canada, let no-one say we are backward in coming forward, or not forward in going backward for that matter. As I've been berated for not understanding it is an 'Symbolic' gesture (Really ? I thought they just had their dates mixed up...Wed, Jul 21 2010 A response to Candy's blog
At The Rim Once again Candy offers considerable debate for further discussion regarding the age-old conflicts of why so many still oppose the deaf having a culture, while agreeing everyone else has. I'd like to respond on my own blog, as it is rather extended to include on Cathy's.I think the issue is via the 'collective' status as a culture, it has become virtually impossible ...Sat, Jul 17 2010 Lies, damn lies and Fraudulent statistics...
At The Rim A recent (Alleged) poll of NHS deaf patients in the United Kingdom has been declared 'proof' by the British Deaf association of extensive BSL usage in Great Britain: The British Deaf Association (BDA) welcomes the latest results from the GP Patient Survey, which confirms that there are just over 100,000 adult Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users in England. At last...Fri, Jul 16 2010 What we all need..
At The Rim My deafness is 32 years old today, and whilst we still struggle with the interminable issues of deaf or Deaf ? Oral or Cultural ? (And whose a pretty boy then), a little light relief seems called for.... So I wish the following people all good will towards all men (Women too).Deaf-UKDeaf For LifeGOD's bloggerThe RNIDThe miserable UK 8And the many many other people wh...Mon, Jul 12 2010 How we used to be.... 1950 or 2010 ?
At The Rim I read with sadness a recent comment on the Regency Blog. I'm inclined to agree, and share the sentiments on this British blog. If there is a second coming, let us ball pray we are all hearing and put an end to it. Anyone with a strong belief on democratic representations and real inclusion, cannot help but be very depressed with the disgraceful state of Britis...Sun, Jul 11 2010 The Deaf Parable..
At The Rim In the beginning there was deaf, and the deaf were without unity, cohesion, the spoken oration, and hearing ruled the earth, and it came to pass, the deaf developed manual signing, a community, and reading of the mouths, and there was great joy, and communications in abundance. The deaf created culture, and Identity, and all was well with the deaf world. It later ...Wed, Jul 07 2010 They Think it's all over ?
At The Rim Deaf awareness week is now ! They say it can only happen in America but, us Brits are trying in our own way to emulate the American deaf dream and encouraging anyone with a name someone recognises to tell the public what shits they are for not giving charity money so deaf can be dependent on charity instead of the state, A recent article by a charity sector site sug...Sat, Jul 03 2010 Damn it's that Deaf Week agin' !
At The Rim Hints, tips and other things to raise the ultimate in deaf awareness... (Or we could just all get CI's).... Deafness can be isolating – so can living in a cave on Mount Everest, but I digress.Tip (1) Don’t avoid conversation with deaf people (OK some deserve avoiding especially if they have deafhood but).... try tap dancing, juggling, pulling funny faces, but remember...Wed, Jun 30 2010 Are deaf unethical ?
At The Rim Access has always been an issue for deaf people, but have we forgotten in the pursuit of that access, they way deaf language is used, and for what purpose ? Should we care how e.g. sign language is used so long as it is ? A recent blog from the US of A (Where else !), gave us all a high-five, and the 'have a nice day y'all', because sign language was used in the pr...Tue, Jun 29 2010 RNID abuse of Deaf week.
At The Rim We are in the deaf awareness week starting today, and supporters of the RNID (The Brit A G Bell), are doing awareness via deaf children, always guaranteed to evoke sympathy and thus cash for their dubious charitable causes, and blatantly suggesting the RNID support the 'Social Model' of deafness, do they ? watch their CEO on Brit TV state completely otherwise, so why...Mon, Jun 28 2010 The 'Silence' star speaks...
At The Rim Born deaf, the actress Genevieve Barr makes her debut in the BBC drama The Silence, alongside Gina McKee, Douglas Henshall and Hugh Bonneville Link Barr was born deaf.When she was a toddler her mother would sing nursery rhymes to her while she was in the bath. Barr would watch her mother’s lips intently and mouth the words back to her, silently. At four years old, s...Sat, Jun 26 2010 Deaf Awareness Week ? I'll give it a miss...
At The Rim As probaly one of only a dozen deaf who have come or stmbled across this deaf week in the UK being mentioned, time I think to wind it all up, I don't want awareness any more. The almost total lack of caring whether we hold such a week or not and disenchantment with the charities that use it to plug themsleves and tout for work while denying deaf any representation,...Wed, Jun 23 2010 To be PC or not to be PC ?
At The Rim Is that the question ? and who cares anyway ? Until people say what they are really thinking you won't get anywhere. Deaf started this PC nonsense with the disabled, and supported by the system for a quiet life, a good idea at the time that is now a new form of personalised and patronised abuse used by us. What puzzles me is why they haven't replaced the PC term wi...Tue, Jun 22 2010 Will deaf say no to signed TV in the UK ?
At The Rim Since the 2003 Act came in to force making it a legal requirement to provide albeit a limited amount of sign language access to TV programs, there have been increasing comments, it is not working, and increasingly not wanted any more by deaf people who prefer, and are happy with subtitling.Particular gripes are in-vision captions, and obstruction of the program visual...Sun, Jun 20 2010 Cameron versus Youth...
At The Rim Students ignore British Prime Minister's dire warnings on noise....Thu, Jun 17 2010 Black and White Dog
At The Rim Louise Stern at the BBC, on her book and experiences as a deaf person, and how she escaped the deaf ghetto..."The family joke was that the dog could smell hearingpeople, because whenever a hearing person came tothe house – a door-to-door salesman, or a Jehovah’sWitness in a painfully neat suit, or one of the fewpeople they knew in the neighbourhood – the dogwould get ...Wed, Jun 16 2010 Politics versus Choice, the final frontier.
At The Rim Thank you for the comments re the last blog, assuming it becomes the rule that parents of deaf children should recieve all and any information and told of options, does the NAD have the unbiased means to give it ? or the Audiologists ? Should they consider that the deaf world is so polarised over this, perhaps an independent body should be elected instead ? Holist...Sun, Jun 13 2010 NAD unconvincing...
At The Rim Having watched the video of the two parents, the question I would have asked is why THEY didn't seek out further areas of support for their deaf son ? If you have a child born with issues (I did too), then the very first thing I did was explore avenues of support and interactions and education aspects for the future, in fact, I did it BEFORE my child was born. Most...Sat, Jun 12 2010 World Cup Football to be signed...
At The Rim Not that I'm a footy fan, but they say there are a few out there, those deaf may be interested in this news, how is your International Sign these days ? Or will captions do ?For the first time, FIFA.com will be broadcasting reports from the month long soccer tournament in International Sign (IS). The Federation Internationale de Football Association will be holding ...Fri, Jun 11 2010 A potted History of Marion House Cardiff...
At The Rim The New Club...(Circa 2007).A potted History of a club for the deaf in my area, made all the more relative now that the Newport and Cardiff deaf clubs are under such pressures to survive at this time, and of course noting the inter-relationships of the south welsh deaf community with the deaf missioners that still continues to this day. Although this specific item re...Thu, Jun 10 2010 They signed... But they said...
At The Rim What was signed, but turn on the speech to text set up... why ? it was captioned anyway...Wed, Jun 09 2010 Where have the deaf gone...?
At The Rim 'Long time ... passing..." ? I was talking to an elderly deaf man this week, he is 78, his wife died a few years ago, his family has moved away, he is in a one bed box passing itself off as a warden supervised home... he wanders the streets daily, sometimes starting at 6:30am in the morning, before some shops are even open..... he usually stays out about 3 to 5 hou...Tue, Jun 08 2010 Audism is Discrimination.. (Sort of).
At The Rim It's a conflict in discrimination laws we can do without. There are sex/gender/gay/disabled/colour/religion covered, if you are deaf AND part of those other stated areas, then you would have considerable difficulty proving specific deaf hate. No case has ever been bought in the UK, we've had a 'disability hate crime' law for years... I doubt the deaf have ANY Idea ...Mon, Jun 07 2010 |
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