Demo of Ten-Digit TN by GoAmerica and AT&T
Ed's Telecom Alert All. Right after the FCC released Rule & Order of 10-Digit TN and Emergency Access along with Further Notice issues, GoAmerica and AT&T were quick to release a press news on their intend to demonstrate the 10-Digit TN. GoAmerica and AT&T, will demonstrate 10-Digit which will be fully Interoperable between VRS providers. Click and be excit...
Language Tech Legal Thu, Jun 26 2008 hide this blog

DeafRead, Deaf Village, Aggregators, Part V: Flogging A...
All The Young Dudes I just love flogging deaf horses, don't you Mike? What about you, dog food? Mike, Hypocrisy? Double Standards? You be the judge. Update #1[A Response], what I was trying to say in DeafRead, Deaf Village, Aggregators, Part III: Argggggghhhhhccess, is that if deaf village is an aggregator, whose aim is to aggregate “content”, targeted at a specific aud...
Language Tech Culture Thu, Jun 26 2008 hide this blog

Saturday........
SURROUND SOUND We got off to a groggy start the next morning...three and a half hours of sleep made getting up at 7:30 really hard for this girl (although Laurie was up and sparkling already!). We took personal responsibility for our own hair that morning since Abbie had to run downstairs for a quick meeting. Mike Royer, who is an extremely sensitive and emotional young man, spoke o...
Tech Legal Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Deaf Lesbians Invade San Francisco
Deaf Queer News Deaf Lesbian Festival Committee members Sally Garza, Chriz Dally, Regina Johnson, Sarah Hafer, Jennifer Ann Cook (JAC), Liz Brading, Dodi Ellis, and Susan Gonzalez. Not shown: Ella Mae Lentz and Judy Gough. It's Pride Week in San Francisco and the City is in for a special treat as Deaf lesbians arrive from all over the world [...]
Culture Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Breaking News: 2008 ADA Law Restoration approved by US...
The Rogue's blog June 25, 2008: US House of Representatives approved by a 402 to 17 vote for restoration of 2008 ADA laws. Next step will be the SENATES. [link] Vote Results by US House of Representatives: [link]
Legal Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Updated: Restoration of 2008 ADA Laws
The Rogue's blog Please check their website about 2008 ADA ADMENDMENTS (not law) Restoration. So you can follow up the news!  Yesturday, June 25 at 330 pm...Congress supposed to vote the Restoration of ADA law. We need to keep our eyes closely. We need to gain our rights and our freedom! [link] “We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, [...]
Legal Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Colorado Governor Signs Hearing Aid Mandate
Hearing Aid 2008 Colorado Governor Signs Hearing Aid Coverage Mandate     On June 3, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter signed Senate Bill 57, which mandates that health insurance companies cover the cost of hearing aids for Colorado children ages birth to 18. The law will take effect January 1, 2009. The legislation was spearheaded by the Coalition for Children's Hearing [...]
Tech Legal Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Not Only Deaf--Today I Was Mute
DeafMom Every now and then I feel sorry for myself. I had a meeting today up in Northbrook and I knew I couldn't make it up there. So after I dropped the oldest kiddo off at football camp, I headed to the nearest Panera Bread to set up the laptop and call into the meeting. After several attempts to connect to the WIFI, I finally settled back to make the call. The f...
Language Tech Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

AGBell Builds Another Wall At Milwaukee!
AGBell.info A call today came through today from the Hyatt sales manager, informing DBC that AGBell has convinced the Midwest Airlines Center and Hyatt Regency to close off the inside walkway that connects the two–closing it off so that AGBell's and DBC's conference participants cannot use it.    AGBell does not want their attendees, mostly parents of Deaf child...
Media Audism Legal Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Anne’s cochlear implant story
I look so I can hear.... Amidst all my partying (my social life has gone stratospheric recently) I bumped into Anne, it was a couple of weeks before she was to go in for her cochlear implant operation. I asked her to update me on her progress. At the beginning of June, Anne went into Southmead Hospital, Bristol, for the operation and [...]
Tech Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Hearing Loss Association supports the 2008 Americans with...
The Rogue's blog   [link] Hearing Loss Association supports the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act The Americans with Disabilities Act has transformed the nation since its enactment in 1990. The ADA was intended to protect people with disabilities from discrimination at work and in public life. Unfortunately, over the last decade Supreme and lower court decisions have exclud...
Legal Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Support for video annotations on YouTube
Accessible Rhetoric YouTube recently added support for video annotations and in-video links. Three types of annotations are supported: speech bubbles, notes, and spotlights. As Bill Creswell rightly pointed out a couple days ago, YouTube's implementation is similar to what users can do with “bubbles” on BubblePly.com. One key difference is that YouTube's annotatio...
Tech Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Aggregating feeds to search for captioned web videos
Accessible Rhetoric On the subject of captioned programming on the Web, Closed Captioning Web suggests in a recent blog post that More major network channels are setting up video players on their sites..and the good news is, the players show captions! More and more captioned programming is now available through Fox.com (read the review at Disabled in the Digital Age) [...]
Tech Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Deaf American Gladiator
Accessible Rhetoric While browsing Hulu.com the other day, I caught a glimpse (on the site's scrolling image bar) of what looked like a cochlear implant attached to the head of a contestant on American Gladiators. Because I have an ongoing interest in how deafness and cochlear implants are visually and discursively constructed in the media, I located [...]
Tech Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

NAD President to Keynote at Deaf Bilingual Coalition...
submit by: Alexander McLin NAD President Bobbie Beth Scoggins has accepted an invitation to be one of six keynoters at the inaugural Deaf Bilingual Coalition (DBC) Conference in Milwaukee, WI, June 27-30. Dr. Scoggins will be speaking about early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) systems and how the deaf community can become involved in these systems and support deaf children and their...
Media Language Education Tech Legal Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Blogger Gang Hand Signs
DeafJoke.tv Via innovations Creators. Tags: blog, gang, hands, networking
Art and Storytelling Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Hello, Deafread.
Rachel's Blog Hi - this is my first blog at deafread.com. I have been reading/watching b/vlogs for a while now. So, I decided to get one of my own! =) I'm not exactly sure what to say yet - but I hope to have some interesting blogs for you guys to read. I also like to read comments [...]
Higher Education Language Tech Culture Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

A Question of Statistics ?
At The Rim I'm a supporter of deaf village (My blog isn't there !), AND deaf.read, mainly because I approve of those who are prepared to challenge the status quo anyway. Why should anyone put up with a refusal to provide access from anyone ? There is no 'Right' of entitlement to do that. However, I was looking at the statistics of the DV site, in relation to claims from some ...
Language Tech Culture Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

HUMOUR: ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES PRIDE MONTH
All The Young Dudes Saturday, 21st June: In a world first, Sydney, Australia, played host to the world's Assistive Listening Devices Pride March. Different assistive listening devices from the world over, gathered in Sydney for a celebration of their ability to bring sound, to the neurologically devastated peoples of the world. Thousands of spectators lined Oxford Street, the tradi...
Tech Culture Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Letter in Norwegian to parties involved in my case (to be...
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Brevet er redigert for å tilpasse det til bloggen og fjerne navn og roller: “Var på Rikshospitalet for å ”mase” i dag. Har rykket frem 10 plasser siden april, er nå på nr. 49 i køen. Med den farten (siden april) blir jeg operert høsten 2009 en gang.... Har nå vært i helsekø i [...]
Tech Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

What Is The Music? (Dactyl Tetrameter [?] )
Abysmal Poet What is the music, O! ‘Tis just the melody,Instrument playing in perfect accordance?‘Tis a vibration so complex to follow?Searching intensely inside soul so deeply?Beating profoundly relaxing persona,Soothes in one’s mind? True sound and so audaciouslyVibrating its true intention with heartfeltechoes of treble and bass so entwined, yesthat is the music and that is th...
Art and Storytelling Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

DeafAdvice: Fiancé's financial blowout before wedding!
DeafAdvice Dear Aslan,My fiancé and I just got engaged last month. We are both Deaf. We have both been working really hard to save up money to start our life together. The other night, he came home with a new (well, used, but new for him) car! I couldn’t believe that he would spend so much money on something we didn't need! I already have a car that we have been planning to shar...
Culture Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Deaf Advice: Wife growing distant from family.
DeafAdvice Dear Aslan,I really like this blog idea! Maybe you can help me. My wife and I are deaf. we have been married for several years, if I say anymore than that she might find out who I am :). I have a situation, I love my wife very much, she is currently working many hours a week for a non-profit organization with hardly any income. I support her very much but I’m starting...
Culture Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog

Texas Brings Random Contemplations on CLT Access
We Cue! As I write this, I am currently in what amounts to the middle of nowhere, central Texas, working as a volunteer at an archaeological field school, ready to sell a kingdom for a good hot biscuit, and surrounded by colonies of fire ants. I also have very limited internet, so y'all are very lucky to [...]
Language Education Tue, Jun 24 2008 hide this blog

Deafened Bahrain Teenager
Jamie Berke (About.com) A deafened teenager in Bahrain has literally withdrawn from life after losing his hearing. Hearing aids were tried, and failed. A cochlear implant is the only solution, but the family...
Tech Tue, Jun 24 2008 hide this blog