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Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 4 hours ago

Bilingual Bimodal Webinar
Miss Kat's Deaf journey Bilingual Bimodal Education Webinar 1 I watched this and I loved it! I hope this is the direction Deaf schools are headed! The information was great and I can't wait to watch the next one! (And now we have a name for Miss Kat's language progress...sequential bilingualism!)
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 6 hours ago

Super Bowl XLVI: PepsiCo and the NAD
Deaf Network of Texas Super Bowl XLVI: PepsiCo and the NAD The National Association for the Deaf (NAD) and PepsiCo announce that the NAD Miss Deaf America, Rachel Mazique, will perform the National Anthem and America the Beautiful in American Sign Language (ASL) at the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis on February 5, 2012. The NAD in partnership [...]
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 8 hours ago

Tanzania, Africa - gap year option
PDDCS News Request in today for a volunteer who is confident in BSL to support in a young deaf child in Africa. The volunteer role is to include work with the organisation, Forever Angels Baby Home, caring for orphaned and abandoned babies, supporting access in the Tanzania International School and further developing the family (British) signs in BSL. Further information is ava...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 11 hours ago

NAD, NFL, and NBC team for Super Bowl Captioning Experience
NAD News The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and the National Football League (NFL) along with NBC, the network airing Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, February 5, 2012, worked together to ensure an accessible experience for the most important game of the year. As in years past, the Super Bowl and national commercials as well as network and NFL promotions will be caption...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 11 hours ago

Impeachment trial in sign language
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers Guys I'd like to share with you a very informative and insightful article written by Sir Raul Pangalangan in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He explicitly discussed about the importance of utilizing sign language interpreters in getting the truth and protecting the rights of a deaf person. However, he also enumerated the problems it poses like the [...]
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 12 hours ago

Join us at the Deaf Rally 2012 in St. Louis!
Show Me Deaf Community Our Deaf activists and advocates,You know that in history during Revolutionary War, Paul Revere galloped through the night warning about the British invading. That was April 18, 1775 ( I think ) Now today, February 3, 2012, I am e-mailing to everyone to please think about coming to St. Louis to band together to show those people at EHDI Conference at Union Statio...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 13 hours ago

NAD And NVRC Ask You To Count Captioned Super Bowl...
NAD News Super Bowls are renowned not only for the excitement of the game itself, but also for their legendary commercials. The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons (NVRC) are continuing their annual partnership to count closed captioned commercials this year for Super Bowl XLVI between the New Englan...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 13 hours ago

My Thoughts on HB 1367, Thus Far
Eh? What? Huh? Rather than build an entirely new center, why not keep the outreach center where it is and look at what exactly is going on there. If there are problems, fix them. Perhaps the staff needs more training or some staff members need to leave. Perhaps new rules need to be enforced to encourage staff members to provide unbiased information. If some of the staff members did ...
Fri, Feb 03 2012 · 20 hours ago

Speech Reading
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

Orwell Knew His Stuff!
The Rebuttal William Lutz, Professor at Rutgers University perceptively comments,  “If there's one product American business can produce in large amounts, it's doublespeak. Doublespeak is language that only pretends to say something; it's language that hides, evades or misleads.” Double speak is the art of saying one thing but meaning another. In today’s age double speak is...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

A Deaf Imbolc Ritual
Deaf Pagan Crossroads Recently I have begun corresponding with a Deaf family who has been studying about Paganism and undertaking their own spiritual journey down the Pagan Path. Both the wife and husband are Deaf, and they have three Deaf children.Together, the family has been begun celebrating the Wheel of the Year and eight Sabbats. I recently shared [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Listening from the Heart
Brian Patrick Jensen Sarah's Speech It is is June, 2010. The scene is an all-student assembly where faculty and proud parents join for a wonderful year-end elementary school tradition called “The Moving Up Ceremony.” Having now completed 6th grade, my then twelve-year-old daughter was chosen for the high honor of giving her class's year-end speech. Sarah's pu...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

World's Tiniest Ear Created
Hearing Sparks This is completely fascinating and more than a little mind-bending.Scientists in Germany have developed the world's tiniest ear, referred to as a "nano-ear." This ear could be able to listen to the sounds of bacteria and viruses, both of which make noise as they move. Not only are they extremely sensitive, they can even tell where a sound is coming from.According to t...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Don't Hang Up... It's a Relay Call... Wait...
Xpressive Handz I got a nice letter in the mail the other day. What is difficult is they want me to call to speak with someone on their staff. I wish it were so simple.I am able to use my own voice when I make phone calls because I became deaf late in life. The phone system I use when I call people is wonderful, however it isn't always easy to connect to someone with it. A Calling Ag...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Timeless Poem for the New Year
Brian Patrick Jensen Tribute to My Angels I wrote this poem for my two children, Amanda, 17 and Sarah, 13. It was late June, 2010. My hearing loss had just worsened profoundly and permanently. I could no longer discern the sound of either daughter's voice and I wanted to offer reassurance. . I published this before; and I [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Did your MP turn their back on deaf children?
Campaigning for deaf children At the bottom of this blog is a depressingly long list of all the MPs who voted to cut benefits for deaf and other disabled children last night in the Welfare Reform Bill debate. Here is a website where you can work out who your MP is if you're not sure. Apparently, you can send [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Author Posts on Forum
Jamie Berke (About.com) The author of a new book for young people, with a deaf main character, has posted on the forum about her book. In her book "Flying to the Light," the deaf character is a young boy with a type of super power. I have not read this book. If you read it, go back to the forum and post your review!Author Posts on Forum originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Thur...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

My Letter to the Indiana Senate Appropriations Committee...
Deaf Echo Dear Senator: My name is Dr. Christopher Jon Heuer, and my dissertation, professional research, and work all fall within the fields of literacy, language acquisition, and Deaf Education. HB 1367 will soon come before you for review. I hope you will consider my arguments against it and oppose it. At the very least, I [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Hearing Loss Association of America Surpasses $1.2 Million...
Mike McConnell Received an interesting email announcement from HLAA about their fund raising effort in 2011 through their Walk4Hearing fund raising events. It's amazing to see how much they've raised money in one year. Already into 2012 they've raised almost $70,000 which is about 5% of their $1.3 million dollar goal. Bethesda, MD: The Hearing Loss Association of America is pleased ...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

February 1, 2001--Remember back then?
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone.Someone went and prayed for the soul of Benjamin Varner yesterday. Some one did a shudder of what happened 11 years ago. It was on a day that rocked the campus of Gallaudet University WORSE than before September11, 2001 ever happened.Read Remember 2-1-01Joseph Mesa MURDERED Eric Plunkett and Benjamin Varner on the campus of Gallaudet.He tried to plead i...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

How do Sign Language Interpreters Increase Opportunity in a...
Street Leverage One of the main giving hands in the sign language interpreter economy is the scheduler of interpreting services for the local interpreting agency, university, or VRS company.  These daring individuals play an extremely important role in the livelihood of most sign language interpreters.  So, when it can literally mean the difference between thousands of dollars [......
Thu, Feb 02 2012

The Neptune Seminar!
You gotta b'lieve Hon, or not! We had over 30 people at the Neptune seminar in Rockville.I was able to see children that already got their bilateral Neptunes!!! I love the fact you can clip your processor anywhere!! I did a demonstration to a few people how I would wear my Neptune if I had one!!! I only wish!!!!I also got to meet a candidate that was interested in AB's implants. He happens to work ...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Deaffest 2012
PDDCS News Deaffest is the UK’s only Deaf-led film and television festival, which celebrates the talents of Deaf filmmakers and media artists from all over the world. Why not go along?The 2012 festival will be held at Light House in Wolverhampton from Fri 25 – Sun 27 May.Young Deaffest will be taking place on Sat 26 MayIf you would like to submit your film to this dynamic an...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

A Parent's Experience With the ISD Outreach Center & Why...
Eh? What? Huh? I was told about a blog post, Why I support Indiana House Bill 1367, written by Untitled. She wrote about her experience taking her son to the Outreach Center at ISD to be assessed. It did not sound as if it went well. Below is an excerpt. You can read the entire article here. I was very hesitant on going there because Evan was an already an established auditory le...
Thu, Feb 02 2012