|  |  |  | |||||
Nurse sacked for abusing deaf colleague. At The Rim A foul-mouthed nurse who swore at patients at a Yorkshire mental health unit and called one “Abu Hamza” has been struck off. Christopher Cooper, 48 also racially abused one colleague and called a deaf worker a highly offensive name and covered his mouth so she could not lip read, a hearing was told. He was sacked after the allegations came to light and has no... Wed, Apr 23 2014 · 4 hours ago Class Action At The Rim Lexington School for the Deaf is proud to present CLASS ACTION, a show about high school, but the parts you don't see in the classroom: relationships, cheating, illness, gossip, pregnancy, bullying, and so much more*. You'll even get to go to prom and graduation. You'll see high school in a way you've never seen before!Performed in American Sign Language with voice in... Wed, Apr 23 2014 · 4 hours ago CRTC unveils video relay service for deaf, speech impaired At The Rim The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced that video relay service will be made available in Canada as early as fall 2015 for users of American Sign Language (ASL) and Language des signes quebecoise (LSQ). Upon launch, the service will facilitate conversations between consumers who are deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaire... Wed, Apr 23 2014 · 4 hours ago Hearing Aide application: Singapore At The Rim To help the deaf community "hear", and communicate better with the hearing, two mobile applications (apps) were launched on Tuesday. “Say it With Signs” and “Hearing Aide” were developed for the deaf community to make daily communication easier with family and friends. The “Say it with Signs” app helps the deaf and the hearing communicate better through ... Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 22 hours ago How to disable and enable subtitles in Windows Media Centre At The Rim Subtitles and closed captions can be useful - a means of silently watching a film or TV show, and a useful aid for the deaf or hard of hearing. But it is annoying when subtitles appear and you can't work out why, or how to get rid of them. In this article we will explain from where subtitles and closed captions appear, and how to remove them. Here's How to disable and... Tue, Apr 22 2014 · 23 hours ago Why signers should NOT use children as Interpreters. At The Rim An excerpt from an UK blog link attacked BY deaf BSL using people as 'negative'... It's all uphill isn't it ? Apart from it being labelled child abuse in the UK, it still goes on. Police, school personnel and other medical care professionals tend to rely on the hearing children of deaf family members to act as sign language interpreters so that they can c... Tue, Apr 22 2014 Deaf versus hard-of-hearing: a viewpoint At The Rim How the D/d thing affects patient care too, with confusions as to what support is needed, a negative of pro-cultural approaches ? This follows on from increasing concerns the system is adopting signed approaches and trying to adapt them to non-signing HI patients. Clearly, deaf awareness has been overtaken by the signed variety to HI detriment. Just one area where ... Tue, Apr 22 2014 New Talking Hands prototype.... At The Rim Two young Turkish scientists have built a prototype of "talking gloves" that translate sign language into vocal language, helping people with hearing and speech impairments make their voices heard. The revolutionary invention of computer engineer Elif Saygi Bavunoglu and her husband, Harun Bavunoglu, a Ph.D student in mathematics and computer science, has been ch... Mon, Apr 21 2014 Funding for interpreters withdrawn at Cornwall's only deaf... At The Rim Volunteers at the centre in Camborne said they fear for its future after reductions in Cornwall Council's budget let to the service being cut. The interpreter service costs £2,500 each year. Until now it had been funded by Cornwall Council. More than 100 deaf people use the services at the centre each year. The interpreters are needed so that deaf members of the... Sun, Apr 20 2014 Unified Emirati sign language At The Rim UAE aims for a signed 'Norm', is it not about time regional sign was got rid of, so all deaf sign the same way ? Not least because regional sign is severely limiting the pass rate of prospective Interpreters ? Imagine for a moment, if you will, living in this technological age where communication is all important, that you could not speak. Or that you were un... Sun, Apr 20 2014 Metro-sexual Man At The Rim Last of the 3 silly blogs.... At a dinner the other night, (My partner only wants to be seen with me then, so she can blame poor lighting), I saw some bloke listing the calorie count of the food, comparing it with an nutritional dictionary he had downloaded to his mobile phone, even drawing the waiter's attention to the fact the cutlery was placed incorrectly, comple... Fri, Apr 18 2014 Here comes Summer.... At The Rim An irreverent look at how the welsh holiday makers see the world outside Wales....AH ! summer is coming (At least that's what travel agents tell us, as they flood my post box with exotic destinations to visit for about £5 a flight with an outside toilet. Personally and being British, I don't hold with foreign holidays, if God had meant us to travel he wouldn't have... Fri, Apr 18 2014 Why won't they print my book ? At The Rim My latest attempt, to try getting some publisher to recognise the truly outstanding disability I have with the printed word, has, somewhat sadly, been cast to the lexicographic four winds again, AND I AINT GUNNA STAND FOR IT ! (Sorry about that..) So I have decided to write to said publishing house of Stott, Stott, Thribble and Stott with my earnest concern and encl... Fri, Apr 18 2014 Next Generation Text Service At The Rim Log in HERE (So forget the Deaf/deaf/impaired tags, they aren't interested.) Thu, Apr 17 2014 New approach to communication changes teen's life At The Rim Cued speech better than sign......Makayla Howell, 15, a freshman at Niceville High School who is deaf, demonstrates how her transliterator uses cued speech recently at Henderson Park Inn in Destin. It took Makayla Howell two months to learn the communication method that changed her life. Deaf from birth, the now 15-year-old uses Cued Speech instead of American Sig... Thu, Apr 17 2014 Staff at care home are taught sign language At The Rim Staff at a Gateshead care home are learning sign language in a bid to communicate with residents. Nikki Coulson, manager at St Marks Court in Deckham, and nine other members of staff are taking part in a 10-week course for the benefit of resident George Conway, 91, who is deaf. The members of staff have various different roles in the home, from carers to kitchen ... Thu, Apr 17 2014 Journalism student creates Deaf and Hearing Network At The Rim The Deaf and Hearing Network combines vocal news, signed news and news with subtitles to provide broadcast content to people who are deaf or hearing-impaired. Anchors for the network are deaf as well. (Chris Garay/DD) In families that have both hearing and deaf members, there is often a communication gap when it comes to broadcast news. Deaf family members have t... Thu, Apr 17 2014 Deaf And Hard of Hearing New Zealanders Marginalised At The Rim Imagine if you could not access vital news and information. What would you do? At 6pm on Friday evening, 11 April 2014, this occurred as there was a total failure in the captioning of the 6pm evening news as broadcast on TVNZ’s Television One. What does this mean for New Zealanders who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing? 1 in 6 New Zealanders who experience some type... Wed, Apr 16 2014 Deaf School Boss Dismissed At The Rim THE boss of Scotland’s national deaf school has been dismissed following a probe into how allegations of a sex assault committed by one of her staff were handled. Janice MacNeill, chief executive of Donaldson’s School in Linlithgow, was suspended pending an inquiry by board members into why staff waited nearly four years to take action against youth worker Willi... Wed, Apr 16 2014 Research into the Deaf Brain At The Rim Only tells part of the story...... It doesn't tell us about balanced research. People who are deaf and those with hearing differ in brain anatomy, no surprise in that. But studies of individuals who are deaf and use American Sign Language (ASL) from birth aren't telling the whole science story. 95 percent of the deaf population in America is born to hearing par... Wed, Apr 16 2014 Deaf Blind cheated of their vote... At The Rim Malawians who are blind are pushing the Malawi Electoral Commission to make available tactile ballot guides (TBG) for them to cast their votes independently. In previous elections, they have been relying on guides who do the marking for them. They argue that such an arrangement violates their right to choose because they were not sure if their guides had really mark... Wed, Apr 16 2014 Megadeth Helping Deaf Woman Experience Her First Concert At The Rim Megadeth will launch their 2014 Super Collider world tour in Las Vegas on Thursday, and the band are flying a born-deaf woman who received hearing implants to the show so she can experience her first rock concert. Sarah Churman received her first hearing implant in 2011; a YouTube video of the then-29-year-old hearing for the first time was an internet sensation, ev... Wed, Apr 16 2014 Deaf Culture: Is it the beginning of the end ? At The Rim From a thought-provoking blog that suggests the onset of CI's will mean the demise of deaf cultures in the western world. But, is the battle against by the Deaf, already lost ? Excerpt: I can’t help but wonder if I’ve witnessed the beginning of the end of Deaf culture. Clearly implants are already lessening the use of sign. And perhaps... Tue, Apr 15 2014 Signed Rap Battle At The Rim With 3 interpreters.... (Don't ask me, last I heard was the Beatles...). Tue, Apr 15 2014 Mother of all Alarm Clocks... At The Rim Raspberry Pi based vibrating alarm clock, in an 1980s Bond Villain style. Control is via the LCD and buttons, and also over the network via an IRC bot interface. Fire alerter and vibrating pad are FireAngel Wi-Safe2, which continues to operate if the clock fails.The clock is also a GPS-based Stratum 1 network time server, and is able to maintain accurate time without ... Tue, Apr 15 2014 Man gets divorce... At The Rim Because he wasn't told she was almost deaf...... an issue with arranged marriages clearly ! A man got a divorce on grounds that wife's family fraudulently obtained consent for marriage. A Khar resident has been granted divorce on the grounds that his wife didn't tell him she was deaf. Interestingly, it took the man seven months to realise his wife had a hearing pr... Tue, Apr 15 2014 Not about Me... At The Rim I wouldn't buy into this sort of misleading awareness, it is about sign language users, NOT hard of hearing at all, who would not use sign language, we have this issue in the UK as well, 'Deaf awareness' being about sign language awareness, and not relevant to other deaf or hard of hearing or lip-reading only areas. It is why ATR rejects 'Deaf Awareness' and 'Deaf S... Tue, Apr 15 2014 Magnetic CI Implants.. At The Rim Hospitals in the Midlands are amongst some of the first in the country to fit new magnetic implants to help patients with hearing loss. Traditional cochlear implants mean people have a titanium screw protruding from their heads. But new technology is changing that.. VIDEO LINK Mon, Apr 14 2014 Princess Alice: The Deaf schizophrenic.. At The Rim Princess Alice of Battenburg, the Queen's mother in law, had always been a little bit different. She was born in Windsor castle to Princess Victoria of Hesse and her husband, Prince Louis. Her grandmother, Queen Victoria, was present at her birth. After she had difficulties learning to speak, it became evident that Alice had been born deaf.Despite this, she grew t... Mon, Apr 14 2014 99-year-old Mollie gets a CI.. At The Rim Last week we saw the UK's youngest CI Implantee, today, we see the oldest. So its never too late to get one..... Have you booked yours yet ? 99-year-old Mollie becomes oldest in Europe to be given a life-changing hearing implant after 30 years of silence. Warwickshire great-gran looking forward to a new lease of life after record-breaking cochlear implant. ... Mon, Apr 14 2014 Dumb child gets CI.. At The Rim They don't care for Political Correctness in Lahore. Doctors at Shalamar Hospital on Sunday carried out a successful Cochlear Implant Surgery of a dumb child, raising hopes that he would be able to hear and speak. Cochlear implants may help provide hearing in patients who are deaf because of damage to sensory hair cells in their cochleas. In such patients, the i... Mon, Apr 14 2014 Gallaudet Museum Opening Video At The Rim Gallaudet University Museum Grand Opening with Captions from i DEAF NEWS on Vimeo.Supplied with captions.... Mon, Apr 14 2014 CAB raising money for deaf access... At The Rim The CAB will be raising money for the British Sign Language (BSL) project, which will help Citizens Advice Bureau support members of the public who are Deaf or hard of hearing to access advice. Deaf people can experience huge barriers when trying to access the services, advice and support they need to deal with everyday problems. We want to make sure they can get the ... Mon, Apr 14 2014 I'm deaf can't you read ? At The Rim Deaf woman in 1937, solving the problem of identification from behind. Mon, Apr 14 2014 Deaf and Dumb Weddding (1940) At The Rim Not quite PC, but an old video of historical value. Mon, Apr 14 2014 Blast from the Past ? At The Rim Blimey, if they think 1974 is history.... (That reminds me I have stuff from the 1970s and Carlise, where the first sign lesson went to VHS), possibly the first book too. I recall the first 'learn sign..' vid, the terp looked frightened to death.) This picture of Doncaster mother-of-two Helen Todhunter was taken 40 years ago - but is now set to appear on... Mon, Apr 14 2014 Facebook Group to attempt NADP takeover ? At The Rim Can you confirm if there is a coordinated lobby from the 'Pardon ?' facebook group to gain executive post positions at the NADP ? We are reading Pardon ? is also utilizing BSL activists (The individual is a well known BSL activist, is she even a member of the NADP ?)..., NOTE: Alison Bryan @Deaf 3h @carolwales so ta for the reminder. I want to post t... Sun, Apr 13 2014 Access for All: Suffer 50% cuts. At The Rim After conning the world with the 'accessible' paralympics in London, we now see most has been removed again Funding to provide disabled access to railway stations is being cut by nearly half over the next five years, new figures have revealed. Only one in five stations has step-free access, and campaigners fear that cutting funds will make the situation much worse ... Sun, Apr 13 2014 Open Letter to the Heritage/lottery funding and grants... At The Rim Sirs, I am writing to ask about how funding is allocated regarding minority areas in the hearing LOSS and deafness areas, and if inclusivity is actually a cornerstone of your funding/grant allocation ? I ask because last time funding was allocated to deaf people in S.Wales there was concern expressed funding was allocated on a strict and singular communicati... Sat, Apr 12 2014 Heather aims at Gallaudet... At The Rim Heather Hamilton didn’t understand why the young boy wouldn’t acknowledge her goodbyes. The two 5-year-olds had spent an entire afternoon playing together. He didn’t say much, but Heather thought he was just quiet. Then, it dawned on her: He wasn’t answering her farewells, no matter how loudly she shouted, not because he was ignoring her. He simply coul... Fri, Apr 11 2014 Any old Hearing Aids ? At The Rim I think I have an old medresco here ! Paul Wood of the Rotary Club of Birmingham has collected over 21,000 redundant hearing aids to help children in developing countries who suffer from impaired hearing. As digital hearing aids replace analogue versions, Paul has been collecting the unwanted devices to give children in third world countries such as India the chanc... Fri, Apr 11 2014 Deaf-Blind get free access to cheaper technologies. At The Rim Tanisha Verdejo loves to surf the internet for shopping deals. She chats on Facebook, learns about new recipes and enjoys sending emails to friends and family. Verdejo, who can’t see or hear, could do none of that a year ago. The 40-year-old New Yorker lives in a group home in Port Washington and is among the thousands of people with combined hearing and vision loss... Fri, Apr 11 2014 Appeal Court: Deaf parental incompetence case decision... At The Rim Deaf parent had child removed for adoption. The Court of Appeal has issued guidance on the correct approach to be taken in cases involving disabled parents. In Re C, a couple who both suffer from disabilities had successfully appealed against a full care order issued for their 17 month-old daughter, called A in case reports.She was taken into foster care shortly af... Fri, Apr 11 2014 Deaf Bedford College student to appear on Countdown At The Rim Guaranteed to annoy Jenny Dodds no end a deaf CI user entering a spelling competition show. Sadly for her in English, and he has a CI lol. Just forget it Dodds you cannot fight access. A DEAF student from Kempston is to fulfill his lifelong dream when he appears on Channel 4’s Countdown on Monday (April 14). Ciaran McCarthy, 21, who was born profoundly ... Fri, Apr 11 2014 Dodds the last deaf Dinosaur II At The Rim And limping Chicken is being overrun by deaf extremism. Nice idea Charlie but you really should not let these people in, one who has in fact just deserted AOHL, others who time forgot and in their own world. Who let Dodds out of retirement ? We thought she had been exiled to social medias to talk to herself? Dodds suggests her readers cannot read and need her to ... Fri, Apr 11 2014 New Application: How well do you hear ?
At The Rim It can take nine weeks to book a hearing test with a specialist in Canada. Or you could just turn on your phone. Officially launched late last month, the “See How Well You Hear” app hopes to get people – youth, especially - to test their hearing at home using their eyesight. “One thing we noticed was that young people are not hesitant to get their eyes teste... Thu, Apr 10 2014 |
»Top Ten Posts 147. Why signers should NOT use children as Interpreters.148. Deaf versus hard-of-hearing: a viewpoint149. Emily Howlett: I’ve had enough of competitive parenting150. Sean Forbes Reflects on Influences151. What if Batman Were Deaf?152. Twista and Cued Speech Users Together in a Video Fueling...153. Annelies Kusters: Preparing to investigate the use of...154. A wonderful resource for librarians who interact with...155. How to disable and enable subtitles in Windows Media Centre156. Hearing Aide application: Singapore |
DeafRead ServicesSyndicationDeafRead TeamDeafCal.com is a calendar of deaf events. Advertise your event! DeafVIDEO.TV View New Videos by the Signing Community © 2014 DeafRead and TaylerInfomedia DeafRead does not endorse any of the blogs by the mere act of publishing. | ||||||
|  |  |  | |||||
Dashboard
Bookmark
Like
Flag
Hide
Register
