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Terp agencies are biased? At The Rim Jobs for the boys? Perhaps not. There are about 1,300 sign language interpreting agencies in this country. Approximately 15-20 of them are deaf-owned interpreting agencies (More of an estimate at this point). What can we do to boost deaf-owned interpreting agencies? Generally the advantage they have is an ability to acquire information from other business ... Sun, May 26 2019 · 9 hours ago How to talk to people that cannot hear you. At The Rim Another well-meaning blogger who doesn't appear to understand the basics of hearing loss or how to raise real awareness about it. These tried and never viable suggestions keep being trotted out as awareness by rote and sheer habit despite not being all that successful. The real awareness should be with us and it isn't. It also assumes we are lip-readers and, th... Sun, May 26 2019 · 10 hours ago Visually Disabled need help too? At The Rim Can't help feeling the whole awareness gigs by the deaf and the disabled are at odds with each other. Discriminating at some individual or group with an 'obvious' disablement seems pretty simple to ID and address in real terms, as averse to those who discriminate against people whose issue is IN-visible (those with mental health issues, or the deaf etc). All di... Fri, May 24 2019 Defining hearing loss.are hearing aids a fudge? At The Rim Are you wearing your hearing aid for fun? Or just to fit in and for reassurance? ATR explains the view. "I used a hearing aid well beyond the point of it because it could still detect noise. The fact the noise was not clear or understandable even, was immaterial as the fact I could HEAR something. It saved a lot of heartaches really. I know in some part I w... Mon, May 20 2019 Move those Lips... At The Rim Whether they realize it or not, most people read lips to some degree. People with hearing loss read lips to a large degree – almost every time they are listening to or talking with someone. It can be a shock to discover, after developing hearing loss as an adult, that your partner, children and friends do not “give good lip” as I wrote about in a recent article... Mon, May 20 2019 When Sign doesn't cut it.... At The Rim Subtitles are more than just words, they create a story, a vision, an understanding. They’re not just hugely beneficial for deaf and hard of hearing people, but for those with other disabilities such as Auditory Processing Disorder and those who English is not their first language... People are exposed to subtitles on a daily basis without realising they’re u... Sun, May 19 2019 Living in a Hearing World. At The Rim Living life deaf in a hearing world - BBC Young Reporter from Miguel Simoes on Vimeo. Sat, May 18 2019 Deaf Cognition Project. At The Rim Shouldn't research be undertaken by neutral researchers? to get more accurate and unbiased results? One has visions of the results were favourable to deaf regardless. Rubber-stamping own ingrained opinions of effectiveness. There appeared to be difficulties making the video with insufficient sign to cover the launch. Sat, May 18 2019 Hearing aids that can read your brain. At The Rim But, can they clarify what you hear lol. Hearing aids that read your brain will know who you want to hear If you have difficulty hearing, it can be tricky to make out a single speaker in a noisy room. A system that amplifies the voice you want to listen to could help. Imagine you’re trying to have a catch-up with your best friend in the middle of a noisy pub... Thu, May 16 2019 They Work for us? At The Rim They work for some but it isn't us. A recent debate in Parliament discussing deaf week noted no health system had published anything much about it or the access they do or do not provide for those with hearing loss. As usual, huge disinformation provided by the BDA and others was rife and the complete manipulation of statistics to include people who were n... Thu, May 16 2019 Deaf Awareness Week (For those who didn't know). At The Rim The whole week seems to be complete postcode-driven lottery by all accounts, with vast areas of the UK deaf and HoH, being totally unaware it was happening. Do they not understand deaf awareness has failed to advance our access for the last 15 years? It's just charity PR mostly with the obligatory signer front of house. Thu, May 16 2019 Drop the signed access to TV (UK) ? At The Rim Bound to cause contention but has this deafened poster a valid point? Access for access sake? We know rights overrule practicality as it is. To caption or to sign? No room for both? A response to discussions about captioning in televised media, access? or just an unwelcome distraction? Commentor #1. "As points of interest I DON'T want sport captioned b... Tue, May 14 2019 Deaf Culture is it unwelcoming? At The Rim Obviously, some feel it isn't. Is the pressure and nature of the Deaf cultural approaches oppressive toward diversity and anti-wider inclusion? Another post not included here from the same site also stated attempts to 'assimilate' the deaf into the mainstream are discriminatory. Do they want in or not? Or are they so lacking confidence in their ability to do so,... Mon, May 13 2019 D versus d At The Rim Are there degrees of deafness? There are types/causes not degrees. Either you are deaf, or, you aren't. 'Degrees' pertain to hearing loss (db), not deafness. Ergo... the definition of deafness. In general, there are three main types of hearing loss: sensorineural, conductive, and mixed. There are also four agreed upon levels of hearing loss severity: mild, mo... Mon, May 13 2019 What deaf awareness really means to your charities. At The Rim The Hard Sell. And you thought it was actually about making mainstream aware of your need. Deaf Awareness Week Hello ****, Time’s running out on our Deaf Awareness Week Sale. Get 10% off 10 bestselling products for hearing loss until 12 May. Buy online or order by phone from our Customer Services team. And remember, every purchase helps fund our vit... Sun, May 12 2019 Aren't you Glad Deaf awareness week is nearly over? At The Rim Deaf Awareness Week: 'You don't look deaf...' (thought I'd put a pretty face on knowing how the image is all, and nobody would care if she signed or not anyway). I know I don't look deaf, (Not even to other deaf at times), with a face like mine nobody would ask, or expect I was anyway, (The poor impression of a nodding dog tends to be a real giveaway as NOBODY re... Sat, May 11 2019 Xbox braille controller At The Rim Microsoft has been leaning into accessibility in gaming lately, most visibly with its amazing Adaptive Controller, and a new patent suggests another way the company may be accommodating disabled gamers: an Xbox controller with a built-in Braille display. As you might expect, it’s already quite hard for a visually impaired gamer to play some games, and although ... Sat, May 11 2019 Innovations that increase digital inclusion for people with... At The Rim Innovations that increase digital inclusion for people with disabilities. As many as one billion people—15 per cent of the world’s population—have some form of disability, with around three per cent suffering from severe disabilities, according to World Bank. For most of these people, accessing modern technology and all it has to offer presents a host of diff... Fri, May 10 2019 New Zealanders discover Milan! At The Rim NZ was jokingly reviewed by Brits as 12 years behind everyone else, rather a revelation to see they are even much further behind than we thought. Resurrecting the 19thc does not seem a way forward for the deaf to me... we are still trying to drag them out of the 20th. Creating oppression when there isn't any relying on the experience of people dead 140 years ago d... Fri, May 10 2019 I am Donald Trump's love child! At The Rim Fortunately not, but now I've got your attention, the round-up of ATR's weekly updates is HERE ! Fri, May 10 2019 Deaf week Gig inaccessible for disabled. At The Rim Oops! A disability charity has refused to apologise for holding a fundraising comedy night in an inaccessible London venue. Action on Hearing Loss (formerly known as RNID) was raising money as part of its Deaf Awareness Week with an evening of stand-up at The Comedy Store in London. Performers included Angela Barnes, Samantha Baines, Ed Gamble, Eshaan Akbar, Rus... Thu, May 09 2019 Awareness, just not as we know it? At The Rim The one above ATR found most welcome, albeit suggested that advice better suited for the 19070s rather than the new Millenium where so much access and assisted formats have zeroed much of the advice noted above. ANn immediate turn off with 'Deaf Awareness' as a heading. There were other queries as to why HoH areas are even included in these 'Deaf weeks' which a... Thu, May 09 2019 Deaf Week: Nottinghamshire At The Rim Why do we STILL need 'help' when access is a right in Law? Who isn't complying? (Just about everyone by the look of it!). Wed, May 08 2019 Google: Live Captioning on Android. At The Rim Google waited until I/O 2019 to demonstrate one of the most impressive features of Android Q. It’s called Live Caption, and when enabled, you’ll see any video or audio you play on your phone transcribed in real time — with extremely accurate results. Live Captions are overlaid on top of whatever app you’re using, be it YouTube, Instagram, Pocket Casts, o... Wed, May 08 2019 Loud Noise Doesn't deafen then? At The Rim A group of campaigners set themselves a task of measuring how noisy each journey was on the London Underground. They found noise levels on some Tube routes reached 100 decibels - which the audiologists say is harmful to commuters' hearing. Transport for London (TfL) is being encouraged to put up warning signs in parts of the Underground network where noise levels ar... Tue, May 07 2019 Those scary deaf people.... At The Rim Positive proof deaf weeks and awareness are NOT working. Also, a sober reminder to deaf organisations they need a total and new approach if the status quo is to be changed. Perhaps informing themselves how to talk to each other is unhelpful. If inclusion is to work then, the community has to have a re-think. E.G. there are 10m with hearing loss not just a few ... Tue, May 07 2019 Wearing two hats? At The Rim Interpreters must interpret it's a violation of privacy to act any differently in the UK. They are not allowed to advise or to help any form of decision-making. Not even when the client has other communication issues, the same should but doesn't, apply to the family too. One suspects the issue is no social services there, this has created privacy issues in ... Mon, May 06 2019 Let's talk about deafness At The Rim Talking about ASL culture and language, not about deaf or Hard of Hearing people! There is, NO one language, NO single culture, No one 'right' education, or one size fits all either. It is all about the experience of the individual, so, there is no deaf community either if you capitalise it or not. Since 2 people constitute a bona fide culture and 3 a community, th... Mon, May 06 2019 Sign Flash mob at Oxford At The Rim The issue isn't really about hearing doing sign but using sign to integrate the deaf, and the two still appear incompatible as the only way to effectively use sign is to attend their areas. Otherwise, it relies on random meets in the public domain. Shoppers at the Westgate Centre paused in their tracks today when a group of pretend coffee-drinkers left their ta... Sun, May 05 2019 Deaf-Blind Interpreter training At The Rim Deafblind Interpreter Training from SLIS on Vimeo.(Filmed through a letterbox). Sat, May 04 2019 Rethinking the Term ‘Hearing Impaired’? At The Rim Have the American deaf managed to convince the legal on terminology? OMG the thought police have infiltrated the deaf community too. I thought it a novelty when the deaf community started espousing terms like 'meme' or 'Pedagogy' and threw hashtags about as if they meant anything, but the onslaught on identification continues unabated, does nobody ask the actual peo... Sat, May 04 2019 Soap Opera Deafie returns. At The Rim To be fair she is unlike most deaf signers we know. 'Awkward' it was. We expected the lecture 'This is what deaf people do...' to emerge, coming soon in an episode shortly I expect. What we need for real awareness are people who struggle with communication and to see how others manage that. Freda Burgess returned to Coronation Street tonight - and she was carry... Sat, May 04 2019 Cognitive development in deaf babies At The Rim This happens with disabled babies too. Fri, May 03 2019 121: Understanding A2W funding. At The Rim Wow! a £1,000 ($1300), a week (where do I sign).Getting Access to Work funding Our leaflet was put together to assist people with a hearing loss to apply for Access to Work funding. The Access to Work funding is there to help you to access deaf equipment (such as radio aids) and services (such as Speech to Text Reporters or British Sign Language interpreters). Th... Fri, May 03 2019 UK power funds Utility BSL Enquiry system. At The Rim Deaf people are soon to get advice in Sign Language on fuel poverty and how to reduce energy bills after an east London charity has won a grant from Britain’s biggest electricity distributor. The DeafPlus charity has been awarded £8,000 by UK Power Networks to train 15 advisors. Deaf people are four times more likely to be unemployed and are often on minimum wa... Thu, May 02 2019 Bank pays deaf woman £2000 for discrimination. At The Rim A bank has brought in new technology to help deaf customers after paying out £2,000 to a woman alleging disability discrimination. Fiona McKendry, aged in her 30s, contacted Northern Bank Ltd after spotting ongoing fraudulent activity on her account. The Belfast woman, who is profoundly deaf and wears hearing aids in both ears, wanted her brother to relay the i... Thu, May 02 2019 SEE HEAR Blows it again.
At The Rim Deaf Mental Health. Having watched part of a recent 'SEE HEAR' BSL program recently about deaf mental health and politically correct signing, one tends to despair at the way deaf media are approaching the issues and lives of deaf people with their confused and mixed/biased messages. If we take the first issue of Deaf mental health (The emphasis being on the capi... Wed, May 01 2019 |
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