Loud Noises Help The Deaf
Fookem and Bug From Popular Science Magazine  Issue: September 1933
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Signs of the Times: How Technology Changes Deaf History
NTID News A first-of-its-kind conference next month at NTID will discuss how changing technology is affecting storytelling in American Sign Language in the Deaf community. Registration for the Oct. 3 and 4 event is now open and is free.
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YouTube Adds Captioning Feature
Bionic Ear Thanks to Karen for posting about YouTube and captioning in which to points to Bill Cresswell's post. YouTube on captions and subtitles covers how to turn them on/off, add/edit captions, and getting help with captioning a video. If only YouTube...
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Back To School
We Cue! Many school districts have been back in school for a week or more, but Fairfax County Schools began classes this week.  As everyone finds themselves slipping back into those school day routines, it a good time to take a look at what our own expectations are for our children.  Parents need to help their children [...]
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Deaf Poetry
Waving With My Deaf Hands Visit this link: [link]
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It's Always My Favorite Fall
Waving With My Deaf Hands Fall brings the moving music in your eyes. Leaves change color in the air. Leaves dance in autumn. The river shines mistily. All sparkled into your eyes. ("My favorite Fall" created by Deb Ann)
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Stuff Deaf People Like #6: Signing “LOL”
Stuff Deaf People Like As the urban dictionary says, LOL is now “overused to the point where nobody laughs out loud when they say it.”  This is with general Internet folks typing “LOL” and “ROFLMAO” to each other via comments, IM, and other internetty places. But no, deaf people carry it one step further.  They actually sign “LOL” to each [......
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Weaving Common Threads and Diversity Among Deaf and Hard of...
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature There is still time to register for the October Conference: Weaving Common Threads and Diversity Among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adolescents in St. Louis, MO. I am extremely excited about this conference because it explicitly addresses the needs of adolescents and I'm guessing that it is the only conference of its kind! So, I highly encourage you to go or at least chec...
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Using Google’s Chrome? Add CC Video Search
bill creswell Using [link] Right click in the Address Bar Select “Edit Search Engines” Press “Add” Name: CCMovies.org Keyword: CC URL : [link] Then you just type CC and your search term! ex. CC Rocker
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Alan Hurwitz and the Videos and hurricanes
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!At last, NTID President: Alan Hurwitz, finally makes an appearance on the video. There's also ASL videos that sign about the " Frequent Qs and As" [link] here's Alan Hurwitz: [link] .On the bright side, I've gotten credit agencies NOTIFIED, I've gotten a hold of one of the 3 credit bureaus. I've taken my own steps as much as I could do.Often I'm get...
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SubPly Offers a Limited Number of Free Captions
bill creswell A few days ago YouTube announced the addition of Closed Captioning support to its videos. One small problem though… YouTube included neither the tools nor the services to help video owners create the actual captioning source files– SubViewer (*.SUB) and SubRip (*.SRT)—needed to activate this feature. This is where SubPLY, [...]
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Sweet School Stories
SpeakUpLibrarian Photo creditI read yesterday on Jamie's blog about a kindergarten teacher in New York who reached out to a hard of hearing boy who would be in her class. The little boy who was born deaf now has a cochlear implant but even so still has trouble blocking out background noise . His teacher Joan Cruz wanted to help him have the most successful start in school she could pr...
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Why do we say we are not disabled?
Musings on communication How is it that we do not regard ourselves as disabled? Is it because of the way we were raised, to be not different from other people? Is it because our difference is invisible and outwardly we look and move about like everyone else? What is the origin of this "not disabled" feeling? This attitude is so pervasive that we object to any surgery or expensive ...
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NTID Laptop Theft Probably Inside Job
Jamie Berke (About.com) Readers, Something happened two days ago that I need to share with a wider audience because of its importance and significance. We received a letter from Capital One regarding the opening...
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Which Deaf Consider Themselves Disabled?
Jamie Berke (About.com) Are deaf people with limited English more likely to think of themselves as disabled, compared to deaf people with "good" English? Below is an example of an e-mail received from...
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Getting Ready for Back to School
Bionic Ear Paula Rosenthal offers advice on how to help a child get ready for school. I asked my mom what she did when I was in elementary school. She said that after the first one or two years, she asked the...
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Amplified at 3.5 yrs...National Merit Scholar Today
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear I always rant and rave about the amazing support offered by the incredible (and hot and sexy) parents on the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Circle. In fact some of the current threads are...Freedom BTE and FM SystemAmazing Video of one brother with a CI reading to his other brother with a CI (I will be posting that one, btw)Bilateral Surgery a SuccessGentamicin and Hearin...
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ASL by Cell Phone
Bionic Ear Researchers at the University of Washington developed software allowing users to talk to each other using ASL over cell phones. The researchers have succeeded in making project a reality. They've received a grant from National Science Foundation that will allow...
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NTID Applicants and Alumni - Request Fraud Alert Online
found in blank I thought this was important enough for me to repost from Jared's Global Microbrand (thanks, Jared for typing that up!). You fall in this category if you have ever sent an application to NTID since it opened in 1968 (and that obviously includes all NTID/RIT students 1968-2008). The word has gone out that there was [...]
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Music to Jordan's "Ears"
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Jordan was sneezing in this picWell, my dad just left. Goodbyes suck, and I am really bad at them. While my dad was saying his goodbye to Jordan, Jordan sobbed and through his tears managed to say, "Mmmmammmmma, why can't Nonno (grandpa) stay until Friday? Mmmmmammmmmmma, will you buy me the new military model airplane that's coming out tomorrow? Bbwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaah,...
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MoveOn.org Not Captioning Videos
Don's Blog Noticed that MoveOn.org wasn’t captioning the videos they were sending out in their mass emails. So I sent them an email just a few minutes ago: I'm a blogger at DonCullen.net. I am deaf, am a member of the California Association of the Deaf, National Association of the Deaf, and the World Federation of the Deaf. [...]
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Foreign coffee shops in England ~ can you understand me?
I look so I can hear.... Last week I was in Wimbledon and I got bored waiting for my friend to turn up, so I popped into a shop nearby for coffee. It was a little place called Tchibo. A staff member approached me and told me that dogs weren't allowed in the shop. I explained he's a Hearing Dog which [...]
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NTID Laptop Thief Using Info?
RSGeo-007 Earlier today I got back from visiting the local Capital One bank. Yesterday, I had received an account opening statement from them which had the correct address, but wrong addressee. I took a look inside to find that it was an account that had been opened in someone else's name and SSN but the account opener used my address. It was dated a day or two after the theft....
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Deaf Anthology # 100: "Deaf Fraud"
Deaf Anthology If you ever get this in your e-mail, ignore it, just delete it, it's obviously a fraud!LONDON DEAF ORGANISATION, ENGLAND.The Deaf Charity Org. Award TeamMorley House, 26-30 Holborn Viaduct,London EC1A 2BP.U.K.Batch No: 3566465021-0TA/06.Ref No: 919347/749-0Winning No: 7-28-87-65-69-73.CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!! CONGRATULATION!!!Dear Lucky Winner,London Deaf Char...
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Recently Became Deaf? ALDACon Might Be For You
DeafMom Have you recently become deaf or hard of hearing? Have you become deaf or hard of hearing as an adult? Then you might want to head to the 20th Anniversary conference of the Association of Late-Deafened Adults. It's called ALDACon and it will be held in Chicago on October 29th to November 2nd. From the ALDA website: The mission of the Associatio...
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