Dream Girl
We Cue! Deafness is a part of our lives; deafness is part of Maddie's life. Maddie turned 15 yesterday, and time for me to sing her praises, not exclusively but especially as a sibling of a deaf brother.
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 1 hour ago

How you can help stop cuts to audiology training
Campaigning for deaf children For the past month, the National Deaf Chidren's Society (NDCS) has been looking into what's going on with the Government's plans to reform audiology training. What have we found out? 1) The cuts are definitely happening. We've seen a letter (though we weren't meant to) from civil servants at the Department of Health saying [...]
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 1 hour ago

Super Bowl Commercials: 81% Captioned
Welcome to ... Seek Geo! After Super Bowl the other night, I was wondering whether or not this year has improved with more closed captions compared to past years. So, I went ahead and broke down and created a list that shows those with CC and ones with no CC. Commercial w/CC If you see parentheses which means more than once. Hyundai (4) Bud [...]
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 3 hours ago

"THAT DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND KID," THE WHO
Deaf Anthology The Who, been singing that song about that deaf, dumb, and blind kid, about a pinball wizard during the Super Bowl halftime. While the Deaf blogosphere been complaining missing the national anthem, none took note of the lyrics during the halftime, so here is it:PINBALL WIZARD THE WHOEver since I was a young boy I've played the silver ball From Soho down to Brighton I ...
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 3 hours ago

Google and Captioning on the Net
submit by: cnkatz A story about a deaf guy working at Google and developing voice to text captioning. Something promising for the future.
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 3 hours ago

CS 25.5: From One Inventor to Another [Cartoon]
submit by: Clerc Scar Deaf cartoonist Adrean Clark draws an imaginary line between Alexander Graham Bell and Graeme Clark. The result may be surprising!
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 3 hours ago

CS 25.4: Dear Alex [E-mail Message]
submit by: Clerc Scar "I recently visited the office of your namesake and it has far evolved beyond your vision--the staffers employed there don't even marry deaf people. Progress! :)"
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 3 hours ago

CS 25.3: Dear Dr. Bell [Letter]
submit by: Clerc Scar Deaf writer David Anthony thanks Alexander Graham Bell. "It is too easy, in hindsight, to fault those who do not subscribe to what is now called 'deaf culture.'"
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 3 hours ago

Updates On LCC & BoT Meetings To Save MSU Deaf Ed/ASL...
Michigan Deaf Community From Katie Hosmer, MSU student: Hi everyone! I apologize if this is the second time you've gotten this message but it seems that several people failed to receive it the first time I tried sending it (last Thursday) Last Wednesday, we had a meeting at LCC to discuss our next steps in saving Deaf Ed and ASL at [...]
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 3 hours ago

New to Being Hard of Hearing - and Embarrassed
Jamie Berke (About.com) "New to HOH" on the forum wrote that they did not realize how loud their television was until they went to a neighbor's house. Apparently, the television could still be heard inside the neighbor's house! New to HOH wants to know if there are any gadgets that can help. I've heard of something called TV Ears. Have you had experience with TV Ears or anything similar? Rep...
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 3 hours ago

8 Ways to be Deaf [Page 7]
adreanaline Comic Transcript: Paul angrily stuffs his ILY shirt in the trash, an office in the background. He walks away, but suddenly stops. Paul runs back and looks at the sign above the entrance to the office. He has an idea! As the door jingles open, we see the full sign – “ASSOCIATED [...]
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 8 hours ago

Millie Brother Scholarship for Hearing Children of Deaf...
Deaf Network of Texas Millie Brother Scholarship for Hearing Children of Deaf Adults (CODA) The Children of Deaf Adults organization would like to call your attention to the Millie Brother Scholarship available to provide financial support for hearing children of Deaf adults to attend college. Since 1990, we have awarded scholarships to 36 hearing children of deaf adults. This year we ar...
Tue, Feb 09 2010 · 9 hours ago

That Will Not Happen at Deaf School ......
RLMDEAF Repeated incidents left the parent of deaf daughter very upset about the extent of audism and lack of effective communication to keep the deaf student physically safe. This kind of incident would be not happened in most deaf schools of the deaf where the constant language use of American Sign Language (ASL) will not deprieve the deaf student from compromised situati...
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 13 hours ago

Marcia Dugan, Advocate, Volunteer and Former NTID...
NTID News Marcia B. Dugan, a community volunteer, author and advocate for individuals who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, died Sunday at her Yates County home with her family after a year-long battle with leukemia. Calling hours are Wednesday in Penn Yan. Read the full story here: [link]
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 14 hours ago

8 Ways to be Deaf [Page 6]
adreanaline The World's Dorkiest ILY Shirt (TM): The Reality. (P.S. Get your own The World's Dorkiest ILY Shirt (TM) here! [Yep, it's fuchsia.]) **** Comic Transcript: Paul grins while wearing his special ILY shirt. The deaf woman's bemused expression is priceless. ***** Go back to the beginning of this story here. *****
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 16 hours ago

See Flo TV Super Bowl Ad? Flo TV Doesn't Caption!
Caption Action 2 What is Flo TV?? Flo TV is an example of why we need HR 3101!Note: Caption Action 2 has contacted Flo TV with questions and is waiting for their response any time now. In the meantime, here is what we know about Flo TV, and more!What is Flo TVFlo TV is a mobile TV broadcaster. They broadcast mobile television to cell phones, the back of car headrests, and to a Flo TV ...
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 18 hours ago

I shouldn't shout ... but MUTE is coming out!
Deaf Woof Barks Hello, everyone!While I've been busy rewriting my new play The Darkest Room in the House for Bridge Productions these days for its performance in March 2010, I got word that my newest book of poems, Mute, will be shipping within two weeks. (OMG.)Here's what A Midsummer Night's Press had to say about my book:"Do not be afraid of your face.Move into a beam of lightin t...
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 20 hours ago

CSD Announces Enrollment Beginning for Annual Deaf/Hard of...
CSD CSD and the National Leadership and Literacy Camp (NLLC) are now accepting deaf and hard of hearing students for their annual summer camps. The NLLC, which brings together gifted deaf and hard of hearing students to sharpen their literacy and journalism skills along with their leadership abilities, offers two separate programs. The NLLC program for 9th-12th graders wi...
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 20 hours ago

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF CBS-TV SNUB DEAF PEOPLE (transcript)
RLMDEAF Ridor, a deaf vlogger and blogger, mentioned that the "Late Show" ads during the Super Bowl telecast was not captioned at all on his latest "YouTube" vlog posting. He was very disappointed with lack of captions for several tv commericals (10 of them).Here is the transcript of "The Late Show" ads what the CBS-TV did not choose to caption that very own promotional mater...
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 22 hours ago

Inscrutable !
At The Rim Scientists in Japan have created a smoke detector for deaf people which warns them with the smell of wasabi. Boffins from Shiga University of Medical Science say they needed to come up with a way of waking deaf people if they were asleep.The problem was that 50 percent of fire victims in Japan are elderly and often have poor hearing - meaning ringing alarms don't wake...
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 22 hours ago

Blogging from my iPhone
Deafinitely girly Today's blog comes directly from my new iPhone, which has of course already been customized with a fabulous pink case!As I type, I'm sat in a first class carriage, zooming back to London after an utterly brlliant weekend. I said "I do" and became Little Frenchie's godmother and had a nice time catching up with The Rents.Anyway, the iPhone, what do I think? Well, on th...
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 24 hours ago

What’s Up With the Deaf Bilingual Coalition
Deaf Bilingual Coalition's Blog What’s Up With the Deaf Bilingual Coalition:  www.dbcusa.org Mark Your Calendars: Our next big event will attending and presenting at the 2010 Early Hearing Detection and Intervention  Conference in Chicago on March 1st and 2nd . We will have a Pre-EHDI workshop sponsored by the Chicago Club for the Deaf on Saturday from 5 to 9,  Saturday, [...]
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 24 hours ago

DBC: EHDI Reform Needed Now
Deaf Bilingual Coalition's Blog The Deaf Bilingual Coalition represents stakeholders from all over the US and internationally who believe that Deaf babies and children deserve the basic human right to cognitive, social and emotional development, and have an inherent right to visual languages (in the US and Canada, those languages being American Sign Language, ASL.) ASL is the third widely [...]
Mon, Feb 08 2010 · 24 hours ago

CBS Had Chosen Not to Air Much of the National Athemn in...
RLMDEAF Nothing new about the CBS-TV's indifference and attitudes toward deaf people from time to time.Brian Riley, the "Save Our Deaf Schools" (SODS), an e-commentator and coordinator, personally urged Dr. Alan Hurtwitz to brush up his protest skills against the CBS-TV to inquire why the network broadcaster of the Super Bowl not to air the full segment of the National Athemn...
Mon, Feb 08 2010

SAD DEAF CHILD IN TEARS AT SUPER BOWL
Deaf Anthology This is the worst exploitation of a deaf child I ever seen in my life, all behind the scene what you haven't seen on the CBS coverage of the Super Bowl. It all started with a father who would do anything to get a free Super Bowl ticket by complaining to the NFL that they should let her 12 years old oral deaf daughter sing the national anthem threatening them with a la...
Mon, Feb 08 2010