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 At The Rim "Dear Sir/Madam,Thank you for your e-mail regarding lip-reading and sign language tuition.Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills in England/Wales and our role is to inspect schools/children's services and adult learning facilities and report on the findings. Issues such as this fall outside our legal remit."A tale of the tape !...Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 20 hours ago The deafening Silence
At The Rim Britain's most (Un)wanted man. Despite massive concerns raised by every disabled and deaf person in the UK regarding welfare and benefits, it is clear the Conservative coalition government is determined to throw our most vulnerable on to the street to fend for themselves. Despite 7 major defeats of their discriminatory and hateful attacks on our deaf and disabled ch...Thu, Feb 02 2012 Best BSL access to Local Services ?
 At The Rim 21 dedicated deaf access films in BSL, but none captioned ? Must be a lot of deaf in Bridport who cannot read....... and no deaf who need both mediums.Thu, Feb 02 2012 Why lip Reading and Sign STILL isn't working.
At The Rim In response to a request to show this topic again and since more comments are still going in. Consider this, if your class had an 25% success rate with 15% of pupils, would you call that a success ? The UK does.I think there is a very real problem for those that acquire a deafness, and a very real need for an end to ya boo communication choices, lip-reading or sign...Wed, Feb 01 2012 Romanian Migrants pretending to be deaf
At The Rim More scams from those pretending to be deaf to defraud deaf people and their charities. Romanian kids and women in ‘deaf and mute charity scam’ using fake UNICEF forms.Romanian women and children are being used to operate a ‘mean and calculated’ charity scam on the streets of Manchester. People have handed over cash after being taken in by fake UNICEF charity...Wed, Feb 01 2012 Euro Accessibility Act, pointless ?
At The Rim You know me always game for a laugh and always able to find some of the biggest in Europe. The latest is a 'consultation' on accessibility whih appears to have a few 'european' fans of the deaf ilk in the UK in a tizzy. Someone hasn't told them the UK wants as little to do with the European laws or Europe mostly and still hasn't complied with an law made 10 years ag...Mon, Jan 30 2012 Access All Areas ?
At The Rim I'd settle for just the main ones frankly ! I'm STILL stuck with some snail mail and some hearing help ! It is e.g. impossible to call an utilities company/bank/ISP with anything like a text or e-mail, they don't want to know. In ye olde days when Typetalk was about, the relay operator was unable to assist at all, defeated by press a for this b for that etc. I had t...Mon, Jan 30 2012 Deaf Hate crime ? Just kids ?
At The Rim Still the abuse of deaf and disabled goes on, here we read a 14-year-old boy from the Selby area has appeared in court, accused of trying to set fire to the house of a blind and deaf woman and her ten-year-old son.The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before a youth court in York yesterday facing charges which included attempted arson with intent to...Wed, Jan 25 2012 Blind an Deaf Dr a hero for all..
At The Rim Dr James Hanlon with Helen Keller. Writing on the photograph says: "To Dr James Hanlon, with Christmas Greetings, Helen KellerAt the age of 42, James Hanlon went blind and eventually deaf. But far from accepting his career was over, he went on to help ease the pain of polio victimsWHAT MAKES some people carry on in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds? It’s a q...Tue, Jan 24 2012 Deaf Child support, worst cuts ever seen...
At The Rim Planned cuts to deaf children's services in Salford have been branded "among the worst seen" by disability campaigners.Salford considering plans to cut its three full-time and two part-time specialist teaching assistant posts to just two.The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) said plans to halve the number of specialist teacher of the deaf posts to just one ful...Mon, Jan 23 2012 Deafyou comment losers threaten to 'occupy' ATR
At The Rim Deafyou anonymous commentators threaten to squat at ATR. So especially for you losers here is a blog so you can. (It will save you damaging the windows and stuff to get in.) The truth behind deafyou ? hmmmmmm will we ever see it ? Methinks they protest too much.... (Still 200 extra views can't be all bad).Cue: "AnonymousJan 21, 2012 03:19 PMWarning. your blog wi...Sun, Jan 22 2012 Phone Companies may be forced to include deaf
At The Rim Will it, won't it happen ? the saga continues.......Telecom giants may be forced to develop a video service for the deaf which uses sign language. Two months ago the revolutionary video relay service, which would help 45,000 deaf children in Britain to enjoy greater independence, develop social skills and find work, was at risk from “penny-pinching” telecom chie...Sat, Jan 21 2012 Revelation ! DeafYou has a policy.
At The Rim Yep and we all know what is is along with its ridiculous agenda and self-righteousness. Eager to shore up it's flagging comment slot, and now trying to appear whiter-than-white, DeafYou hastily edited out 27 comments from it's vblog areas over the last 2 days, then posted this to suggest THEY are hard done by, what Deaf YouVideo said... who is 'We' ? all I read was 3...Fri, Jan 20 2012 600 deaf children misdiagnosed as hearing.
At The Rim The parents of some 600 children have been sent letters asking them to bring them in for another assessment at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.All were seen by a single doctor who worked in the audiology department from February 2007 and April 2011.Last year managers discovered a child who had been assessed by the doctor as having normal hearing, actually t...Fri, Jan 20 2012 The truth about DeafYou ?
At The Rim I think you can go far to find a more hypocritical posting than this recent one at deaf you. In between direct and outright abusive language and offensive posts they bleated about 'free speech', as IF they knew what it entailed.Holism got most of it, but deafyou neglects to mention in their free speech tirade he isn't allowed it by them along with their unofficial '...Thu, Jan 19 2012 AFA challenges Stem Cell tests
At The Rim Audism Free America (AFA), a grassroots Deaf activist network, condemned the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its approval of a study which will use cord blood stem cells on infants as young as six weeks old in an effort to eradicate the Deaf population of the United States.AFA further denounces the FDA, Cord Blood Registry ®, LSL/AVT specialists,...Wed, Jan 18 2012 Time for a change ?
At The Rim Continuing the debate on awareness, support and directions, that deaf and HI are still not getting the benefit from, responses to the UK charities. E.G, Db tests reveal only so much sound or frequencies you may hear or not, it doesn't identify the degree to which that may affect the person, and this changes as years go by and via the support they do, or do not get. I...Tue, Jan 17 2012 Canadian VRS to be wound up.
At The Rim A video relay service trial that allows the Deaf to easily speak over the phone through an interpreter is ending and that has patients concerned.The 18-month trial was commissioned by the CRTC and will end on January 15. The CRTC will then study the impact of the video relay system, or VRS, and decide within a year whether if should continue.Mark Duncan has been Deaf...Sat, Jan 14 2012 Deaf-Mutes were animals.
At The Rim How Victorians and others saw them, women didn't get off too lightly either. "Lips are for speaking, and isn't speech our supreme distinguishing ability? The great philologist Max Müller was eloquent here, arguing against "even so great a general" as Darwin: speech rendered evolution from apes "impossible, or, at all events, unscientific".How about deaf-mutes then?...Fri, Jan 13 2012 Stars and stripes or Good Old Brit Apathy ?
At The Rim UK Urged To Follow USA On Support For The Deaf. The Government is being urged to give more attention to the deaf and hard of hearing in the UK after a school in California was given a $1.2 million grant to fund the training of specialised teachers for deaf students.The area has a large number of deaf residents and with a shortage of teachers trained to deal with stud...Thu, Jan 12 2012 Play it again Max...
At The Rim Max von Sydow is expected to earn a supporting-actor Oscar nomination for his heartfelt portrayal of The Renter, a mysterious mute who comes to the aide of Oskar (Horn).Oskar is a desperate nine-year-old searching New York City for the lock that matches a key his father (Tom Hanks) left behind after he died in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.Based ...Thu, Jan 12 2012 Sporting Chance ?
At The Rim This week SEE HEAR the UK deaf program for '9 million' with hearing loss (!) ran a program about deaf access to the London Olympics, which looked pretty fair, but seems to have missed the cruel irony in that deaf people are NOT participating in the Olympics because they were told to join the Paralympians instead, and deaflympic funding was taken away from them as was...Thu, Jan 12 2012 Cultural Deaf Films under threat ?
At The Rim Most films with cultural deaf slants with signing, gain funds from arts councils and state funds, today the prime minister is insisting funds should ONLY go to films with a mainstream or wider appeal, does this then mean funding for films to cultural deaf via sign are to get massive funding withdrawn ? They are hardly 'mainstream'.News Item: UK films urged to be mor...Wed, Jan 11 2012 Glove application can aid sign users.
At The Rim show&Tell glove - introduction from sarohm on Vimeo.Three developers, Oleg Imanilov, Zvika Markfield, and Tomer Daniel, have come up with a glove that interprets sign language and turns it into text using a custom Android app. The glove, which is still in its very early stages, would let someone who knows sign language speak in their native language while allowing so...Tue, Jan 10 2012 The British Museum via BSL
At The Rim British Sign Language descriptions of over two hundred objects in the British Museum collection. Downloads available too.SOURCE/LINKMon, Jan 09 2012 Irish Deaf Village on schedule ?
At The Rim Anyone have an update ? is it progressing ? and are Gallaudet still consulting on it ? Construction work at the Deaf Village Project in Cabra, Dublin, has commenced. SISK has been awarded as the principal building contractor. It is estimated that the Phase One of the project will be completed in July 2012, which will include:• Administration Centre• Social and ...Sat, Jan 07 2012 Deaf football player sent off.
At The Rim Deaf football (They call it soccer in the USA), player sent off after missing whistle. Kilsyth player PJ will miss next two games after being sent off. A DEAF footballer ended up being sent off in a Lothians cup tie because he kept playing after the referee had blown his whistle.Philip John Dolan – known as PJ – went on to score a goal, not realising that he had ...Thu, Jan 05 2012 Who Mentors the Mentors ?
At The Rim Having read this excellent blog regarding the search for mentors for deaf people, I suppose two questions immediately arise, (1) the purpose of the mentoring. Is just to to raise self confidence As a deaf person in themselves and in their community ? or(2) In establishing deaf people with enough confidence to get out into a hearing world and stand there as viable an...Thu, Jan 05 2012 Deaf parents Hearing Child helped by charity.
At The Rim Deaf parents worried their hearing child would develop speech issues helped by charity. Uncomfortable reading ? or acceptable norm ? A case where deaf parents could not help their child to speak ? A BRIGHT start to the new year has been secured for a special child thanks to Selby Times charity.Selby Hands of Hope has provided a pre-school education lifeline to ens...Tue, Jan 03 2012 Should parents be able to select a deaf child?
At The Rim Is doing the rounds again it is an old chestnut, but one some deaf feel hits at the very core of culture. Of course it does, no deafness no deaf people, no deaf culture, although these facts always seems to get lost somewhere in the heated rhetoric of what really is an hypothetical non-fact at this time. Here is yet another 'no real news today' item from Sacramento....Mon, Jan 02 2012 My Top 10 resolutions for 2012
At The Rim (1) To continue opposing VRS campaigns in the UK until someone actually proves there is a market for it, and deaf can actually see the point of paying through the nose for 7.5 minutes communication a week, and assuming you know deaf who have the equipment, can actually receive a call from them, and the UK government funds ALL the running costs,and can find enough regi...Fri, Dec 30 2011 Culpepper claim thrown out.
At The Rim "Experience of Listening" valid. Discrimination claim in Arkansas thrown out. (Background) : Ms Culpepper has suffered from a severe hearing impairment, which the parties agree qualifies her for protection from discrimination and retaliation under the Rehabilitation Act, since her early childhood. Culpepper began working for the USDA in 1979 and at the time of the ...Thu, Dec 29 2011 Deaf-Blind student told no to accessible education..
At The Rim A YOUNG deaf and blind student has been left devastated after being told the £30,000 funding for her specialist college course is to be cut.Caroline Potter, of Wolstanton, is currently in the second year of a three-year access course at Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education. But her family says the 20-year-old's social worker at Staffordshire County Council, which...Tue, Dec 27 2011 VRS Fraud rife in USA ?
At The Rim What safeguards are in place for the UK ? Allegations of backhanders have already been mooted with 'donations' to VRS BSL campaigns in the UK from American hardware providers...... Why WERE American reps of Sorensons at UK VRS meetings ?LINKSNO!Mon, Dec 26 2011 Social Media, anti-social ?
At The Rim Social media, the be-all, end-all, yet many deaf are just as isolated as they were prior to its inception, in that they still have tremendous issues communicating on the ground and face to face. This vblog extols the virtues of social medias in levelling the playing field, assuming of course you do NOT Use sign language as the tool in social medias to do that, at ...Thu, Dec 22 2011 Going deaf makes you an better musician... we have proof.
At The Rim This should silence those who suggest deafness is an negative thing.....I think I'll start composing now. Beethoven’s deafness could have been cause of greatest works, claims study. (NO truth in the rumour this study was commissioned by the British Deaf Association.).BEETHOVEN’s deafness may have helped inspire some of his best-loved compositions, according to ...Wed, Dec 21 2011 Meet Mr Hearing CEO
At The Rim Guess Americans need all the laughs they can get.... at mark 1:48 the UK gets the most laughs :)Mon, Dec 19 2011 Greek Deaf Support Abandoned
At The Rim Evanthia Plakoura's life recently became a lot more complicated. Conversations with her boss switched to email only. Visits to the doctor require additional planning. She feels helpless in Greece's bureaucratic labyrinth."It's like someone flicked a switch and turned off your voice," said Plakoura, a deaf woman who works at the Education Ministry. Plakoura joined so...Sun, Dec 18 2011 Congo Bans deaf from text messaging...
At The Rim Deaf people in the Democratic Republic of Congo say a ban on texting threatens their lives because they no longer receive warnings of violence.The government banned SMS messages more than a week ago to preserve "public order" following disputed elections.President Joseph Kabila was declared the winner, but his main rival, Etienne Tshisekedi, rejected the result.There ...Thu, Dec 15 2011 The UK's 'Hearing Times'
At The Rim Poor title or what? Interested ? 0845 code: HEARING line ?Mon, Dec 12 2011 Deaf MP hasn't all her faculties...
At The Rim Seems we are not over the assumptions yet re being deaf, foot in mouth time again. Green MP-in-waiting Mojo Mathers has accepted an apology from a Conservative Party member in New Zealand, who questioned whether the deaf Ms Mathers should be an MP because she didn't have all her "faculties".Kevin Campbell, who was previously a member of the Act Party, made the state...Sun, Dec 11 2011 Hypocritical blog of the week..
At The Rim Pots, kettles and the whole damned thing.... Biased, surely not !!! This is a blogger who refuses to accept feedback too...... how about 'hard of listening John ?'Sun, Dec 11 2011 Who is deaf ? Who isn't ?
At The Rim This is an never-ending debate, who IS deaf who isn't, it's all about decibels and whether any decibel use you have is effective enough for you to follow unaided OR with alleviating aids/CI/BAHA's. I think the debate is probably more about the latter category, i.e. hearing use WITH these 'aids'. Then it comes down to how YOU feel that effectiveness IS, on an personal ...Sat, Dec 10 2011 Deafhood, the scourge is here now....
At The Rim Just when you thought it was safe....... For years we in the UK either ignored, laughed at, or generally and benignly indulged those who mentioned Deafhood or read a few pages of it, obviously this enforced our view deaf signers had no issue with English which is all it is in anyway....... we assumed most lived in Bristol or at the Deaf study enclave there, had he...Fri, Dec 02 2011 Caron's Story
At The Rim Being Deaf in New Zealand has its drawbacks too. I have never heard my son's voice, but sadly an CI is an non-option.Tue, Nov 29 2011 |
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